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PostOctober 1, 2020

Antarctic sea ice may not cap carbon emissions as much as previously though...

The prevailing theory has been that sea ice can act as a lid to keep carbon in the ocean from escaping back to the atmosphere. However, researchers at MIT have now identified a counteracting effect that suggests Antarctic sea ice may not be as powerful a control on the global carbon cycle as scientists had suspected.

PostSeptember 24, 2020

New Faculty Member: Talia Tamarin-Brodsky

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

PostSeptember 23, 2020

National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards two grants to MI...

The National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator program is designed to foster global cross-disciplinary and cross-sector workshops on emerging areas of critical societal importance.

PostSeptember 3, 2020

“The Emerald Tutu” wins NSF grant for design to protect Boston’s coas...

Aerial view photo montage of the Emerald Tutu in Boston Harbor, here shown flanking and protecting the waterfront areas of East Boston.

PostSeptember 2, 2020

MIT-WHOI Joint Program Zoe Aarons joins the MIT Darwin Project

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

PostAugust 31, 2020

Six strategic areas identified for shared faculty hiring in computing

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is creating 25 new faculty positions that will be shared between the college and a department or school. Hiring for these positions will be focused on six strategic areas of inquiry that will connect computing and other disciplines across MIT.

PostAugust 10, 2020

3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem th...

MIT’s Asegun Henry on tackling five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the global warming tide: “Our mission here is to save humanity from extinction due to climate change.”

PostAugust 6, 2020

When the chemical industry met modern architecture

MIT graduate student Jessica Varner has explored how the chemical industry wooed the building and construction industry with new synthetic materials at the turn of the 20th century. The result, she writes in her dissertation, was “one of the most successful, and toxic, material transformations in modern history.”

PostJuly 29, 2020

Study - A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered “Snowball Earths...

The trigger for “Snowball Earth” global ice ages may have been drops in incoming sunlight that happened quickly, in geological terms, according to an MIT study.

PostJune 17, 2020

Why the Mediterranean is a climate change hotspot

Global climate models agree that the Mediterranean area will be significantly drier, potentially seeing 40 percent less precipitation during the winter rainy season in the already parched regions of the Middle East and North Africa.

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