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MIT News | Jan 29, 2016
Experts examine how MIT can be most effective in addressing climate-change issues
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MIT News | Jan 29, 2016
MIT attendees of COP21 share experiences, perspectives on outcomes
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MIT News | Jan 25, 2016
MIT will host a daylong symposium to address the nexus of science and action on climate change.
Helen Hill | EAPS
The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), together with the Lorenz Center and the MIT Alumni Association, are hosting a climate symposium on Jan. 27 in the Kirsch Auditorium of the Stata Center (...
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Public Radio International | Jan 25, 2016
John Reilly interviewed on PRI's The World
Jason Margolis | PRI’s The World
If you’re in the oil business, you might think your best days are in the rear-view mirror. Oil is selling for rock-bottom prices. Your product is blamed for destroying the planet. And here’s what the leader of the free world thinks of oil.
“We’ve got to...
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Scientific American | Jan 25, 2016
What does global warming mean for extreme snowfall?
Andrea Thompson | Climate Central
In case you haven’t heard, Washington, D.C., and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region, are about to get walloped by a major storm that could...
Jan 19, 2016
B.B. Cael - The 2016 Basics of Climate Science course surveys the fundamentals of climate science, emphasizing radiation and greenhouse gases, the carbon cycle and earth’s heat storage.
Jan 16, 2016
Evaluation of land resources by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization suggest availability of arable land itself is not a major constraint on food production at least through mid-century, assuming continued yield improvements. There are, however, some wild cards that could vastly impact...
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Jan 15, 2016
Aerosols shown to exert strong influence on the geography of precipitation
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The Economist | Jan 14, 2016
The largest hydroelectric project in Africa has so far produced only discord
The Economist
WHEN Egyptian politicians discussed sabotaging the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in 2013, they naturally assumed it was a private meeting. But amid all the scheming, and with a big chuckle, Muhammad Morsi, then president, informed his colleagues that their discussion was being...