Laws of attraction
Ocean micro-organisms are shown to behave like larger animals in the presence of sulfur. Might this offer clues about the roles they play in regulating Earth’s climate?
Academic, industry and government leaders explore systems thinking
Annual conference examines how approach could help solve the world's pressing problems.
Study sees changing intensity of storms from warming
Hemispheres will respond to climate change differently, with weaker summer storms in the North, study suggests.
More hurricanes in greener seas?
Research suggests ocean color is linked to formation, movement of tropical cyclones
The aerosols conundrum
Research shows that aerosols not only cool, but also heat the planet — a finding that may cloud the validity of climate-change models.
Helping cities adapt to climate change
Field-based graduate training program releases new publication
MIT-led clean-energy projects win ARPA-E funding
$11 million in grants to Institute research awarded in DoE agency’s second round
Wind resistance
MIT analysis suggests generating electricity from large-scale wind farms could influence climate — and not necessarily in the desired way.
Explained: Radiative forcing
When there’s more energy radiating down on the planet than there is radiating back out to space, something’s going to have to heat up
Ecological balancing act
Phytoplankton diversity depends on balance between competition and the ocean’s physical dynamics, new research suggests
Ancient hurricanes
Intense hurricane activity millions of years ago may have caused and sustained warmer climate conditions, new research suggests
A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
Though widely seen as a failure, December’s climate conference may actually have set the world on the right path, panelists suggest