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In The News
Scientific American | Jan 22, 2013
By Brian Bienkowski and Environmental Health News
January 18, 2013
As United Nations delegates end their mercury treaty talks today, scientists warn that ongoing...
In The News
Washington Post | Jan 17, 2013
By Juliet Eilperin
As winter begins to tighten its grip on much of the United States, air conditioning doesn’t seem like much of a survival strategy. But a new study has found that home air conditioning...
News Release
Transportation Research Board | Jan 15, 2013
Karplus, Paltsev recieve award for study on the impacts of vehicle efficieny stanards
Valerie Karplus, Research Scientist, and Sergey Paltsev, Assistant Director for Economic Research with MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, were awarded the 2012 Pyke Johnson Award at a...
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New York Times | Jan 15, 2013
By Justin Gillis
I would guess a few Green readers had the experience, over the holidays, of arguing yet again about ...
Commentary
Energy Biz | Jan 14, 2013
A Win for Energy and America
By John Reilly
THE NEW - STILL DIVIDED - CONGRESS reconvenes this month, and its first order of business is the looming federal deficit. The president made his desires clear in his victory speech: "We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt...
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MIT News | Jan 14, 2013
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Ten MIT students are having an experience of a lifetime as they join officials from around the world for the fifth and final meeting to address global controls on mercury – taking place January 13-18 in Geneva,...
News Release
MIT News | Jan 09, 2013
Harvard, MIT researchers map future trends of mercury and ways to reduce it on eve of international negotiations.
International negotiators will come together next week in Geneva, Switzerland for the fifth and final meeting to address global controls on mercury. Ahead of the negotiations,...
News Release
Link to Article | Dec 18, 2012
By: Vicki Ekstrom
MIT researchers enhance model to assess the risks of water stress.
A conflict over water management has intensified along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Downstream states argue water should be released from the Missouri’s upstream reservoirs into the Mississippi to allow...
Recent Event
Harvard Gazette | Dec 12, 2012
By: Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer
Benefits, risks of using geoengineering to counter climate change.
If they wanted to, nations around the world could release globe-cooling aerosols into the atmosphere or undertake other approaches to battle climate change, an authority on environmental...
In The News
New York Times | Dec 12, 2012
By: Kate Galbraith
AUSTIN, TEXAS — The harm that can be caused by consuming or breathing mercury is well known and terrible. A pregnant woman, eating too much of the wrong kind of fish, risks bearing a child with neurological damage. Adults or children exposed to mercury can experience mood swings...