News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Andrew Babbin sits inside with Boston skyline in background.

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

February 6, 2025

Categories: Faculty, Profile

Headshots of Oliver Jagoutz and Shuhei Ono

Oliver Jagoutz named new director of ERL; Shuhei Ono to take over as chair of PGGG

January 6, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty

What would happen if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapses? How likely is it?

January 2, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty

Headshots of Josephine Carstensen and David McGee

Q&A: Transforming research through global collaborations

December 2, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

What if it works? Podcast: Rising to the climate challenge

November 20, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Health of the Planet

Ask MIT Climate: How much can a large volcanic eruption affect the climate?

November 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research

Lyle Nelson at a desert field site.

3 Questions: Meet Lyle Nelson, EAPS newest faculty member

October 25, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments

Ruben Juanes named American Physical Society Fellow

October 10, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty

Nicole Xike Nie awarded 2025 Nier Prize

October 2, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty, Planets

Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

September 25, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

Closeup photo of Ronald Prinn at a lectern

3 Questions: The past, present, and future of sustainability science

September 12, 2024

Categories: Faculty

a picture of the star AB Aurigae; it has a spiraling blue center with a red ring surrounding it.

3 Questions: Evidence for planetary formation through gravitational instability

September 4, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

portrait of Noelle Selin

Selin to lead new MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

August 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments

Earth and its atmosphere from space.

Scientists find a human “fingerprint” in the upper troposphere’s increasing ozone

August 02, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

Moon dust falls through the hands of an astronaut.

Scientists pin down the origins of the moon’s tenuous atmosphere

August 2, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

Andrew Babbin named a mission director for the Climate Project at MIT

July 24, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty

Photo of the dimly lit interior of a large factory.

China-based emissions of three potent climate-warming greenhouse gases spiked in past decade

July 18, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research

Professor Richard Binzel smiles while holding a meteorite fragment next to a plaque commemorating the day it fell in Johnstown, Colorado, in 1924.

Richard Binzel helps Colorado town throw 100th birthday party for meteorite

July 17, 2024

Categories: Faculty, In the Media

Graphic depicting the idea of a more sustainable world.

Upgrading computational tools for sustainable development

July 16, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet

Pictures of Taylor and Lisa Perron next to each other, with the cover of the children’s picture book “All the Rocks We Love” superimposed on top.

Q&A: Helping young readers explore curiosity about rocks through discovery and play

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty