Explained: Greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration.
Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration.
Fellowship to provide scientists the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.
First year of data from SMAP satellite provides new insights for weather, agriculture, and climate.
Through warming effects, methane and other gases impact rising seas long after leaving the atmosphere.
MIT scientists and alumni well represented on newly announced NASA asteroid missions Psyche and Lucy.
New technique predicts frequency of heavy precipitation with global warming.
Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved of oxygen.
Study finds accounting for year-to-year variability enables more accurate projections of climate change and its impacts.
Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to stronger Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago.
At UN Climate Change Conference, MIT researchers share insights on implementing climate commitments.
Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.
Richard Alley delivers 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate.
Awards to recent alumni honor the memory of Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a pioneer in earth and atmospheric sciences.
Scientists reconstruct first hours after a giant impact created one of the largest craters on the moon.