Climate change

Writing for The Guardian, Sarah Shemkus reports on the MIT Climate CoLab’s approach to tackling climate change. The goal of the lab, a collaborative online community, is to bring together people from around the world to tackle climate change through online contests, Shemkus explains.

The Christian Science Monitor’s Peter Spotts reports on new MIT research that finds volcanoes may be the cause of a recent hiatus in the rise of global surface temperatures.