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Link to Article | Mar 30, 2015
MIT event to address communication challenges — and opportunities for MIT to help overcome them.
Jessica Fujimori | MIT News correspondent
On Tuesday, March 31, MIT students, faculty, staff, and administrators will gather for an interactive panel discussion about challenges in communication around climate change.
The event, titled “Getting Through on Global Warming: How to Rewire Climate...
Student Spotlight
Mar 19, 2015
There is one little-discussed side-effect of reducing emissions that produces immediate local benefits: cleaner air.
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Washington Post | Mar 19, 2015
The Washington Post speaks to MIT meteorologist Kerry Emanuel, who dissects the climate science behind a recent tropical cyclone.
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By Angela Fritz | The Washington Post
Late last week, one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record in the South Pacific made a direct hit on the island nation of Vanuatu, leaving more than 20 people dead and massive destruction in its wake.
Tropical Cyclone Pam’s sustained winds of 165 mph and...
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MIT News | Mar 13, 2015
MIT Climate Change Conversation gets underway with brainstorming session on how to catalyze change.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
A gathering of MIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni took part Thursday in series of talks, polling questions, and brainstorming sessions aimed at spurring the whole MIT community to engage in the process of making the Institute a world leader, role model, and...
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MIT News | Mar 10, 2015
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...
Around Campus
MIT News | Mar 05, 2015
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
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.â€
Urging students to work to supply sufficient...
Around Campus • China Energy & Climate Project
ClimateWire, via Scientific American | Mar 02, 2015
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
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
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...