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Researcher Highlight
May 01, 2016
Steven Barrett probes the environmental impact of aviation and options for reducing it

One round‑trip flight between New York and San Francisco generates two to three tons of carbon dioxide emissions per passenger, more than 10 percent of the annual carbon footprint of the typical American. The aircraft further heats up the climate through the cloudlike contrails (condensation...

Student Spotlight
May 01, 2016
MIT graduate student Tochukwu "Tox" Akobi investigates the impact of technological innovation on the price of oil

As the world strives for a low‑carbon future, the search is on for fuels that are both emissions‑free and cost‑competitive with fossil fuels. One way to estimate how low alternative fuels must be priced to go head‑to‑head with fossil fuels is to run the Joint Program’s Economic Projection and...

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In The News

Although the Paris agreement scheduled to be signed 22 April aims for a 2°C warming cap, new findings show that even a 1.5°C rise will hit glaciers hard.

To mark Earth Day, leaders from more than 165 countries are expected to gather at the United Nations tomorrow for a ceremony to sign the Paris climate agreement, reached last December. Under the...
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Around Campus
MIT News | Apr 28, 2016

Colette Heald studies atmospheric gases and particles, and how they affect air quality and climate

Winds that blow across the Sahara desert in North Africa pick up particles of soil and sand, and typically carry them westward. Many of these grains travel across the Atlantic, leading to poor-visibility days in the southern U.S. and Caribbean, transporting nutrients to far-flung ecosystems in...
News Release
Apr 27, 2016

Aerosol emissions would slow warming but suppress rainfall

In The News
MIT News | Apr 27, 2016

Progress report underscores strong collaboration across campus to address climate change

Vice President for Research Maria Zuber today released a report outlining progress in several key areas of MIT’s five-year Plan for...
Apr 21, 2016

At the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first legally binding global climate deal. A key point of discussion was the issue of responsibility. This press conference presents new research assessing the extent to which some developed...

News Release
Apr 21, 2016

MIT study projects end-of-century climate under different scenarios

Commentary
MarketWatch | Apr 19, 2016

Cheap oil fuels other parts of the world economy

John Reilly | MarketWatch The crash in the price of oil — from $108 a barrel in June 2014 to below $27 earlier this year — has rattled the stock market, triggered layoffs across the energy sector, and plunged many oil producing countries into crisis. Oil has since rebounded significantly from its...
Apr 15, 2016

A new study points to the risk that China and India will be facing severe water shortages by 2050 due to a perfect storm of economic growth, climate change, and fast growing populations. Joint Program Deputy Director Adam Schlosser comments on the future of water stress in Asia.

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