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MIT News | Mar 10, 2015
First-Light Images From NASA's Soil Moisture Satellite Revealed

Professor of civil and environmental engineering Dara Entekhabi, science team leader of NASA's SMAP satellite, marvels at the project's first snapshot of Earth.

by Kelsey Damrad | MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering As severe weather hazards continue to afflict parts of the country to historic extremes, Professor Dara Entekhabi of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a team of NASA scientists provide an...
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MIT News | Mar 05, 2015
New Detector Sniffs Out Origins of Methane

Instrument identifies methane’s origins in mines, deep-sea vents, and cows.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its capacity to trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere for a long time. The gas can originate from lakes and swamps, natural-gas pipelines, deep-sea vents, and livestock. Understanding the sources of...
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MIT News | Mar 03, 2015
There's No More Important Issue Than Energy

Speakers at 10th annual MIT Energy Conference see progress, but great need for more research.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office At the conclusion of MIT’s 10th annual Energy Conference, panelist Cheryl Martin, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E research program, declared, “There is no more important issue than energy.” Urging students to work to supply sufficient...
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ClimateWire, via Scientific American | Mar 02, 2015
China's War on Air Pollution May Cause More Global Warming

ClimateWire article: Plans to clean up China's air may increase emissions of carbon dioxide.

ClimateWire via Scientific American China's efforts to improve urban air...
Feb 25, 2015
Oceans in a Warming World

John Marshall, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Director of MIT's Climate Modeling Initiative, spoke with the MIT Club of Northern California about the role oceans play in global climate change.
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MIT News | Feb 17, 2015
Solving Carbon Mysteries of the Deep Ocean

New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.

Cassie Martin | Oceans at MIT Understanding how oceans absorb and cycle carbon is crucial to understanding its role in climate change. For approximately 50 years, scientists have known there exists a large pool of dissolved carbon in the deep ocean, but they didn’t know much about it — such as the...
Commentary
USA Today | Feb 15, 2015
Oil Will Flow Like Milk and Honey. Here's Why

We can expect oil prices to remain low for the for the forseeable future, writes John Reilly in a column for USA Today.

John M. Reilly | Co-director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Worldwide, people are learning to live with less gas, but that's a habit hard to keep. The price of oil has fallen nearly 60% since peaking in June, and lately there's been a lot of ink and pixels devoted to...
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MIT Energy Initiative | Feb 11, 2015
Bridging the Fuel Gap to the Future

As one of the ten panels open to the public at the upcoming MIT Energy Club Conference, MIT energy economist Christopher Knittel will explore the future of shale gas with fellow experts in the field.

Francesca McCaffrey | MIT Energy Initiative Leaders from the energy industry, government, and the scientific community will gather to discuss the world’s most pressing energy challenges at the annual MIT Energy Club Conference, to be held February 27-28 on the MIT campus. Developed and organized...
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MIT News | Feb 11, 2015
Tackling Global Change During IAP

MIT graduate students brush up on the fundamentals of climate science and policy

    Photo: Paul Kishimoto   by Audrey Resutek | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Graduate students from the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change taught a series of...
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Boston Globe | Feb 04, 2015
Global Warming Won't Prevent Massive Snowstorms, Study Suggests

MIT Prof. Paul O'Gorman talks with the Boston Globe about how climate change could affect snowfall.

By Carolyn Y. Johnson | Boston Globe When a historic blizzard dumps a record-breaking amount of snow on the region, it’s only a matter of time before someone ventures a wry joke about climate change. Maybe there’s an upside to a warmer world, after all? Less shoveling. But the halfhearted punchline...

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