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Sensing the world around us

June 26, 2023

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors

A helicopter drops water on a vast, smokey forest fire

Q&A: Are far-reaching fires the new normal?

June 9, 2023

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

3 cartoony green microbes ride a raft made of shell on a blue ocean. One microbe has a telescope to look ahead. A sign in the water says they are heading towards to the “Ocean.”

Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles

May 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

Aerial view of MIT campus building entrance with Boston skyline in the distance.

3 Questions: New MIT major and its role in fighting climate change

April 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Community

A map shows a large red splotch with blurry yellow border, the ozone hole, on top of the South Pole, on decorative background.

Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

March 8, 2023

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

Featured video: Investigating our blue ocean planet

February 15, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

Wind turbines on the top of a hill.

A healthy wind

December 02, 2022

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

Earth in black space, with constellations and data wave.

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

November 16, 2022

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

In the dark ocean, a cartoon illustration shows a green oval microbe Prochlorococcus eating a dead purple microbe that looks like a Cheeto. A few other microbes appear in background.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources, study finds

November 3, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Photo of pedestrians at a tree-lined intersection, all seen through a polluted haze in Anyang City, China

Coordinating climate and air-quality policies to improve public health

October 26, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Research

3 Questions: O’Gorman awarded the 2023 Haurwitz Lectureship by the American Meteorological Society

September 2, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Natural Hazards

MIT team wins 2022 weather forecasting competition

May 3, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Community

Topographies that talk

April 27, 2022

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Profile

Looking forward to forecast the risks of a changing climate

April 15, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Computing our climate future

April 13, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

April 7, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Ocean vital signs

April 5, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Research

MIT Climate Grand Challenges: Ice Sheets and Sea-Level Prediction

February 16, 2022

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Climate modeling confirms historical records showing rise in hurricane activity

December 2, 2021

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

MIT makes strides on climate action plan

November 12, 2021

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach