Earth and atmospheric sciences

Profesor Henry D. Jacoby, Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, center, leads a team that has analyzed the potential impact of several bills before Congress dealing with how to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. At left is John Reilly of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment who is associate director for the joint program, and at right Sergey Paltsev, of t...

MIT model compares environmental, economic effects of emissions bills

June 26, 2007

Summons wins Humboldt Award

June 1, 2007

Research scientists Justin Kasper and Alan Lazarus display a Faraday Cup, a device used to measure the current in a beam of charged particles.

Team discovers 'throttle' for solar wind

May 17, 2007

Linking science, innovation and policy

May 9, 2007

Professor Robert van der Hilst, left, and graduate student Ping Wang of the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, are adapting technology developed for near-surface exploration of hydrocarbon reservoirs to image the core-mantle boundary deep beneath Central and North America.

High-resolution images herald new era in Earth sciences

April 6, 2007

Image above shows the emergent ocean ecosystem community structure. The phytoplankton community is organized according to relative fitness in the physical, chemical, and predatory environment.

MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes

March 29, 2007

MIT professor Penny Chisholm, left, and principal research scientists Mick Follows and Stephanie Dutkiewicz have created an ocean model in which the populations of "sown" microbes precisely mimic real-world patterns of the same organisms.

Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing

March 29, 2007

Metro Boston's flora and fauna reveal global warming's effect

February 27, 2007

This artist's concept shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet, similar to HD 209458b, that orbits very close to its fiery hot star.

Extrasolars' light guides atmosphere research

February 21, 2007

Panel reviews economics of climate change

Stern Report was a 'wakeup call' to the world

February 13, 2007

Carbon dioxide could be injected underground into the briny porous rock below. Most of the CO2 gas would be immobilized (light blue), trapped as small bubbles (white) in the pore space of the rock (gray). Only a small portion of the CO2 (dark blue) will continue to flow up towards the impermeable layer of caprock (yellow).

Storing carbon dioxide below ground may prevent polluting above

February 7, 2007

Report: Human activity fuels global warming

February 2, 2007

MIT Professor Jefferson Tester points to a geothermal map of the U.S. Tester lead a panel that has concluded that a substantial portion of the country's energy needs could be met by mining geothermal resources.

MIT-led panel backs 'heat mining' as key U.S. energy source

January 22, 2007

Pie charts show how American attitudes have changed from doubt to acceptance of global warming. The chart at left reflects a 2003 MIT survey, the one at right the same survey in 2006. Yellow = serious, act now; red = some action; green = wait and see; blue = not a problem.

MIT survey: Climate change tops Americans' environmental concerns

October 31, 2006

Fred Sanders, pioneer storm forecaster, dies

October 27, 2006

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