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PostSeptember 17, 2021

Research collaboration puts climate-resilient crops in sight

The Des Marais Lab at MIT uses the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon to understand plant-environment interaction. Here, replicate plants are receiving two different levels of soil water availability to study genetic differences in response to drying.

PostSeptember 3, 2021

How Ida dodged NYC’s flood defenses

MIT Technology Review

Rain from Hurricane Ida floods the basement of a fast food restaurant in the Bronx.

PostAugust 6, 2021

New global map shows populations are growing faster in flood-prone areas

MIT Technology Review

Dhaka, Bangladesh has experienced some of the largest increases in flood exposure, according to a new global flood mapping project.

PostJuly 21, 2021

Cities are scrambling to prevent flooding

MIT Technology Review

Abandoned cars are flooded with water after a 2014 storm in Detroit.

PostJuly 12, 2021

MIT Alumni Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change

MACA - MIT Alumni for Climate Action

Roadmap Graphic for Climate Action

PostMarch 10, 2021

3 Questions: Richard Samuels on Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster and its impa...

“Social science teaches that great and unexpected shocks can stimulate great and unexpected social and political change,” says Professor Richard Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies. “But what I found was that even an event as cataclysmic as 3.11 did not change the policy preferences of Japan’s leaders.”

PostDecember 31, 2020

Aerosols from pollution, desert storms, and forest fires may intensify thun...

MIT scientists have discovered a new mechanism by which aerosols may intensify thunderstorms in tropical regions.

PostDecember 11, 2020

Case studies show climate variation linked to rise and fall of medieval nom...

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

In the grassland steppes of Inner Asia, climate has a major impact on plant growth. Pastoral economies, which depend on grazing livestock like horse and sheep, are affected in turn.

PostNovember 1, 2020

COMMENTARY: Multiple extreme climate events can combine to produce catastro...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: Napa Valley vineyards engulfed by wildfire during extreme heat and severe drought.(Source: Yale Climate Connections)

PostOctober 16, 2020

Saudi Arabia faces increased heat, humidity, precipitation extremes by mid-...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: In the desert west of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Source: Flickr/Angus Hamilton Haywood)

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