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PostApril 23, 2021

Navigating beneath the Arctic ice

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.”

PostFebruary 16, 2021

Glaciologist Brent Minchew contributes to new Arctic exhibit at Museum of S...

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

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 15, 2020

MIT oceanographers have an explanation for the Arctic’s puzzling ocean tu...

MIT oceanographers have proposed an explanation for the Arctic’s puzzling ocean turbulence.

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)

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 25, 2020

MIT researchers highlight the impacts of logjams in river restoration proje...

Researchers Elizabeth Follett and Isabella Schalko, and Professor Heidi Nepf, detail their analysis of 584 experiments measuring the backwater rise induced by model logjams in an experimental flume.

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