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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

Alt text: The James Webb Space Telescope points to several TRAPPIST planets scattered on top of a map background with a red dotted line leading around them.

Roadmap details how to improve exoplanet exploration using the JWST

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

A portrait of Susan Solomon next to a photo of the cover of her book,

Q&A: What past environmental success can teach us about solving the climate crisis

July 12, 2024

Categories: Faculty

Cargo ship in ocean.

Study finds health risks in switching ships from diesel to ammonia fuel

July 11, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research

Black spheres with the letter “C” on them, representing carbon molecules, float out of the water.

Study: Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere

July 08, 2024

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

Still from a video of David McGee giving a talk on stage, holding a microphone.

Watch: Messages About Our Climate Future from the Deep Past

July 1, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Events + Outreach, Faculty

The surface of Titan, containing lake-shaped crevices.

Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves

June 19, 2024

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

A photo portrait of Phoebe Lin holding a flute.

Phoebe Lin ’24 awarded 2024 Louis Sudler Prize for excellence in music

June 17, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Side-by-side headshots of Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager.

Sara Seager one of three MIT scientists named Kavli Prize Laureates

June 12, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty, Planets

Ask MIT Climate: What are the best- and worst-case scenarios for sea level rise?

June 12, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research

Two graphs side by side showing model predictions of extreme rainfall near Denver, Colorado. The one on the left shows square, poor resolution data. The one on the right is higher resolution.

Making climate models relevant for local decision makers

June 10, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

A photo of MIT alum Dara Norman wearing a hard had and a yellow reflective vest with her hand leaning on a railing and a blue sky and landscape behind her.

At MIT, Dara Norman ’88 fell in love with stars

June 07, 2024

Categories: Alumni

Andrew Babbin named recipient of 2024 J-WAFS seed grant

June 3, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

TIL Climate Podcast: Slow carbon, fast carbon

May 30, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Resources, Research

A glacier flows into a fjord in the southwest coast of Greenland.

Microscopic defects in ice influence how massive glaciers flow, study shows

May 30, 2024

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Julien de Wit talks “puffy Jupiters” and new exoplanet questions with NBC Boston

May 30, 2024

Categories: Faculty, In the Media, Planets

TIL Climate Podcast: Is it safe to store CO2 underground?

May 23, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Resources, Research

Sky is no limit for deaf pilot Sheila Xu ’14

May 21, 2024

Categories: Alumni