Jennifer Chu | MIT News OfficeToxin will accumulate in the environment, particularly in remote regions, as countries delay implementing emissions controls.
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeAGAGE network celebrates 40 years of measuring ozone-depleting and climate-warming gases.
Fatima Husain | EAPS NewsMars expert John Grotzinger tells the story of exploration and the search for ancient life on the red planet at the 2018 Carlson Lecture.
Kelsey Tsipis | MITThe 2018 PAOC retreat, hosted at the MIT Endicott House in Dedham, MA, gave students and faculty a chance to socialize and relax before the start of the semester.
Chawalit Charoenpong | Oceanus MagazineGraduate student Chawalit Charoenpong writes about his first dive to the seafloor in search of ingredients that may have sparked life on Earth.
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (MIT-WHOI JP).
Helen Hill | MIT Darwin ProjectB.B. Cael, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has been awarded one of nine 2018 Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology.
EAPS NewsEAPS congratulates Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences Julien de Wit and his colleagues from the TRAPPIST-1 Science Team for earning a NASA Group Achievement Award.
Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietySelin will spearhead the master's program for students whose research addresses societal challenges at the intersection of technology and policy.
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeResults from the latest version of MESM compare favorably with those produced by more computationally intensive models.
How global warming can worsen snowfalls
Carolyn Johnson, Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe asks PAOC's Paul O'Gormon about his research on climate change and extreme snowfalls
Volcanic cooling underestimated
NatureSince 2000, atmospheric particles from volcanic eruptions have cooled the Earth more than scientists had suspected.
October312014
Catching air
MIT News/Zach Wener-Fligner Jimmy Gasore is working on Africa’s first high-frequency climate observatory in his native Rwanda.
September292014
MIT's 2014 Energy and Climate Outlook
Audrey ResutekReport: Unless we change direction, the future world will be 3–5°C warmer, thirstier, still dependent on fossil fuels
Danger: Shifting Storms
Peter Dizikes/MIT Technology ReviewHurricanes are peaking farther from the equator, according to MIT's Kerry Emanuel.
August252014
Study: Cutting emissions pays for itself
Audrey Resutek | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Savings from healthier air can make up for some or all of the cost of carbon-reduction policies.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits PAOC
MIT NewsYesterday, Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, toured the laboratory of Prof. Ronald Prinn, who leads the Rwanda-MIT climate-change observatory in the works.
April142014
An Arctic ozone hole? Not quite
Audrey Resutek/JPSPGCMIT researchers find that the extremes in Antarctic ozone holes have not been matched in the Arctic.
April82014
Little-Studied Man-Made Gases have Big Warming Potential
Audrey Resutek for JPSPGCA new study from AGAGE investigators suggests, without additional limits, synthetic green house gases introduced to replace ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons could result in increased warming.
March302014
Highlights from MIT Water Night 2014
Oceans at MITOceans at MIT attended MIT Water Night 2014 to report on some of the (salty water!) highlights, including nano-technological desalination of seawater, innovative wetland conservation, and ocean carbon cycle research.
March282014
Of The River and Time
Britta Voss, MIT/WHOI Oceanus MagazineThe Fraser River in western Canada runs deep with clues to Earth's mountains and climate
March102014
3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean
David Malakoff for Science NOW (reposted with permission)About 1000 meters down in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean sits an unusual legacy of humanity’s love affair with the automobile. It’s a huge mass of seawater infused with traces of the toxic metal lead, a pollutant once widely emitted by cars burning leaded gasoline.
February242014
Study: Volcanoes contribute to recent warming ‘hiatus’
Alli Gold Roberts for MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeResearchers find models must account for volcanic eruptions to accurately predict climate change.
February212014
The Dark and Stormy Side of Science-Policy Mixology
Daniel Rothenberg, Daniel Gilford, Michael Davidson, and Arthur Yip for the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeIAP course explored the science, economics, and policy of climate change.
January282014
PAOC's Noelle Selin appointed to the Global Young Academy
Helen Hill for EAPS NewsFaculty Award: PAOC congratulations to Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems and Atmospheric Chemistry Noelle Selin for her appointment to the Global Young Academy
Promotions for PAOC researchers
Helen Hill for EAPS NewsCongratulations to Patrick Heimbach and Adam Schlosser, both recently promoted to the rank of Senior Research Scientist.