News + Impact - MIT EAPS

In darkness, thumbs hold two small spherical and one small cube objects that light up in vivid yellow, red, and green.

With a new experimental technique, MIT engineers probe the mechanisms of landslides and earthquakes

March 25, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

Venus in space with multi-colored amino acid molecules in its atmosphere.

Study: Life’s building blocks are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions

March 20, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

Ask MIT Climate: Does global warming affect the coldest days or the hottest days more?

March 15, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Rendering shows the Perseverance on the rocky brown surface of Mars. The Perseverance resembles a go-cart and has 6 wheels and an arm extending that houses the drill. The top of the Perseverance has a long neck and a camera on top.

Study determines the original orientations of rocks drilled on Mars

March 4, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

Study: Global deforestation leads to more mercury pollution

February 12, 2024

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

Ben Weiss appointed Robert R. Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

February 6, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Portraits of Julien de Wit, Matěj Peč, and David McGee edited to be side-by-side

Three EAPS Professors promoted

February 06, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Ask MIT Climate: Is today’s climate change similar to the natural warming between ice ages?

February 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Susan Solomon stands on a stage in front of a blue background with a microphone. She is giving an acceptance speech and is holding a gold trophy in one hand.

Susan Solomon wins VinFuture Award for Female Innovators

January 26, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate

January 24, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research

A map of a section of Japan, including the Noto Peninsula, showing two pieces of information: one, the intensity of the January 1st earthquake getting smaller further away from the epicenter found off the coast of the Peninsula, and two, the slip amplitude, which has two intense clusters near the epicenter of 6 meters.

Q&A: What sets the recent Japan earthquake apart from others?

January 24, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Natural Hazards

Ask MIT Climate: How do we know how long carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere?

January 17, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Three separate photos of Roger Levy, Pulin Lee, and David McGee cropped together.

David McGee one of three honored with 2023 School of Science teaching prizes

January 10, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

December 28, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

Paul O’Gorman on using generative AI in climate modeling at MIT Generative AI Week

December 13, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty

A civil discourse on climate change

November 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach, Faculty

Climate Explained: Enhanced rock weathering

November 9, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research

Robert Van der Drift poses in front of the Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building.

Robert van der Hilst to step down as head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

November 6, 2023

Categories: Community, Faculty

Ask MIT Climate: Why do we blame climate change on carbon dioxide, when water vapor is a much more common greenhouse gas?

November 3, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Inaugural Fast Forward Faculty Fund grants aim to spur new work on climate change and deepen collaboration at MIT

November 1, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty