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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.

PostJuly 27, 2021

The pandemic slashed the West Coast’s emissions. Wildfires already revers...

MIT Technology Review

Firefighters battle the Bond Fire in Southern California late last year.

PostJuly 12, 2021

Fortifying Crops for Climate Change

Researchers are using the lab-friendly grass Brachypodium—a good analog for classic cereal grains—to understand how intermittent drought affects plants at a molecular level. Image: Wikimedia Commons

PostJuly 12, 2021

MIT Alumni Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change

MACA - MIT Alumni for Climate Action

Roadmap Graphic for Climate Action

PostJuly 8, 2021

Climate change made the record-shattering Northwest heat wave 150 times mor...

MIT Technology Review

Car driving through forest fire

PostMay 20, 2021

The American West is bracing for a hot, dry and dangerous summer

MIT Technology Review

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.

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)

PostAugust 20, 2020

Yes, climate change is almost certainly fueling California’s massive fire...

MIT Technology Review

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