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MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Oct 24, 2013
Anthropogenic emissions that lead to air pollution (particulate matter and ozone) are also large contributors to climate change. Unlike the well-mixed greenhouse gases, the spatial distribution of these emissions affects their climate impact. A better understanding of the role of aerosols and ozone...
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MIT News | Oct 21, 2013
As the U.S. and other large nations experience the benefits of a natural gas boom, smaller countries – from Tanzania to Cyprus – are hoping to reap the rewards too and use the resource to spur their economies. But in a...
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Link to Article | Oct 15, 2013
The Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), meets this week in Boston for their biannual meeting and to celebrate their 35th anniversary.
Student Spotlight
Oct 13, 2013
A self-proclaimed “nature lover” and public policy buff, Morris put her two passions to work as a masters student at MIT studying the impact of energy systems on the environment.
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MIT News | Oct 10, 2013
Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
If you have stopped at a gas station recently, there is a good chance your auto has consumed fuel with ethanol blended into it. Yet the price of gasoline is not substantially affected by the volume of its ethanol content, according to a paper co-authored by an MIT...
Oct 10, 2013
To better understand Earth's climate, we seek theories that predict observations regionally and globally, from human to geologic time scales. But what are the relevant observations? And how do we construct useful and realistic theories? We grapple with these questions by creating a mathematical...
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MIT News Office | Oct 09, 2013
Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
The structure of the auditing business appears problematic: Typically, major companies pay auditors to examine their books under the so-called “third-party” audit system. But when an auditing firm’s revenues come directly from its clients, the auditors have an...
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UN Environment | Oct 07, 2013
International leaders have gathered this week in Kumamoto, Japan to sign a landmark treaty to curb the use of mercury. The treaty, named the Minamata Convention after a Japanese city where serious health damage occurred from mercury pollution in the mid-20th Century, is both wide-ranging and...
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MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Sep 30, 2013
The Sverdrup Gold Medal is "granted to researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific knowledge of interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere." The award, in the form of a medallion, will be presented at the AMS Annual Meeting to be held on 2–6 February 2014 in Atlanta, GA...
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MIT News | Sep 27, 2013
Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
Nitrous oxide is commonly associated with laughing gas — the pleasantly benign vapor that puts patients at ease in the dentist’s chair. But outside the dentist’s office, the gas plays a serious role in the planet’s warming climate.
After carbon dioxide and methane,...