Earth and atmospheric sciences

Professor Elfatih Eltahir of civil and environmental engineering sits by a monitor showing rock art of a giraffe carved thousands of years ago when portions of the Sahara were still green.

Climate models need their veggies

Research explains climate change in Sahara Desert 6,000 years ago

April 2, 2003

Luisa, Mario Molina battle air pollution in Mexico City

April 2, 2003

Vegetation essential to balancing climate models

Climate change 6,000 years ago in Sahara desert explained

March 31, 2003

MIT researchers in Mexico City use the van, or "mobile laboratory," shown in the photograph above to follow vehicles and gather their emissions for analysis. The schematic shows the interior of the van (viewed from above), including the layout of various instruments and the types of emissions they monitor. Graphic courtesy Aerodyne Research Inc. and Mexico City Program.

Mexico City's air pollution is focus of MIT-led research

March 26, 2003

MIT study: All greenhouse gases should be reduced to curb global warming

February 11, 2003

The Hydros satellite will rotate to focus its beam for scanning a wide area of Earth's surface as it circles the planet every 90 minutes at an altitude of 670 kilometers.

Key to global warming prediction within reach

December 4, 2002

Initiative aims to help understand, monitor Earth

November 20, 2002

Key to global warming prediction within reach

November 14, 2002

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew.

Initiative aims to help understand, monitor Earth

November 14, 2002

A Venetian grocer wears waders while minding the store.

Venice could provide gateway to 21st-century flood control method

November 6, 2002

MIT team hopes to listen for hurricanes from the sea floor

October 2, 2002

The Apollo Saturn V moon rocket's third stage as photgraphed by the crew of Apollo 8 in December, 1968.

MIT astronomers ID object as Apollo stage

September 19, 2002

Lodovica Illari (right), a lecturer in meteorology, and Rob Korty (left) and Greg Lawson, graduate students in earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, are members of the MIT team that won a national weather forecasting competition.

Forecasting team weathers contest with a victory

September 11, 2002

A northern hemisphere tropopause map for Aug. 30 shows regions of low and high tropopause--the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere, which is on average about 10-12 kilometers high but which undulates as synoptic weather systems develop and decay. Purple/blue colors mark regions where the tropopause is low, while red/orange indicates the tropopause is high. Regions of anomalously ...

Forecasting team weathers contest with a win

September 4, 2002

David Senn with the filtration unit he and Professor Harry Hemond built to take water samples from the depths of the Upper Mystic Lake.

Team probes arsenic and old lakes

August 29, 2002

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Mexico City's air pollution is focus of MIT-led research

MIT study: All greenhouse gases should be reduced to curb global warming

Key to global warming prediction within reach

Initiative aims to help understand, monitor Earth

Key to global warming prediction within reach

Initiative aims to help understand, monitor Earth

Venice could provide gateway to 21st-century flood control method

MIT team hopes to listen for hurricanes from the sea floor

MIT astronomers ID object as Apollo stage

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Team probes arsenic and old lakes

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