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Link to Article | Feb 21, 2013
MIT researchers find vehicle efficiency standards are at least six times more costly than a tax on fuel.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Valerie Karplus makes her case in an op-ed in the NY Times...
In The News
Nature | Feb 15, 2013
Nature: Natural hazards: New York vs the sea
By: Jeff Tollefson
February 13, 2013
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, scientists and officials are trying to protect the largest US city from future floods.
Joe Leader's heart sank as he descended into the South Ferry subway station at the southern tip of...
Researcher Highlight
EAPS | Feb 13, 2013
Susan Solomon has won both the Vetlesen Prize and a 2012 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
The Vetlesen Prize...
In The News
MIT Joint Program | Feb 12, 2013
IN THE NEWS: Changing with the climate
MIT News
January 25, 2013
MIT researchers, Massachusetts officials highlight strategies to adapt to climate change.
Just days after President Obama called for action on...
Recent Event
MIT News | Feb 12, 2013
Last month, the United Nations Environment Programme agreed on the first major environmental treaty in over a decade. Its focus was reducing mercury pollution. There to participate in the events were ten MIT students and their instructor Noelle Selin, a researcher with the Joint Program on the...
Recent Event
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | Feb 11, 2013
As Massachusetts and communities throughout the country face the realities of a world where severe weather events like Super Storm Sandy could become more common, smart adaptation strategies are needed. MIT students and researchers brought their latest ideas and findings to the table at an event on...
Researcher Highlight
Faculty Forum | Feb 11, 2013
Research aimed at predicting future climate activity has primarily focused on large and complex numerical models. While this approach has provided some quantitative estimates of climate change, those predictions can vary greatly from one model to the next and produce doubts in the projected outcome...
Researcher Highlight
Feb 11, 2013
In this Faculty Forum Online broadcast, Professor Kerry Emanuel '76, PhD '78 discusses a new approach to climate science that emphasizes basic understanding.
In The News
Washington Post | Feb 08, 2013
By Brad Plumer
February 6, 2013
Like it or hate it, policymakers in Washington are still obsessed with the deficit. That’s why think tanks keep churning out clever plans to cut spending and raise taxes.
And here’s a new paper from the Council on Foreign Relations offering an interesting twist on...
In The News
The Tech | Feb 08, 2013
MIT students frequently use the T and other MassDOT transit systems; since 2010, our IDs even come with a built-in Charlie Card chip. But most students are unfamiliar with the inner workings of the transit system. I was excited to take advantage of one of the opportunities offered this IAP and take...