Climate

The 'weather in a tank' curriculum includes several rotating tank experiments, which are designed to help students understand how Earth's atmosphere and oceans work. An image from the dye stirring experiment is shown here.

Water world

'Weather in a tank' demonstration helps students grasp fluid dynamics.

March 21, 2012

2011–12 Knight Fellows Alister Doyle, Hepeng Jia, Eli Kintisch and Joyce Murdoch speak on a panel about science communication.

Knight Fellows offer tips on tackling the energy and climate science beat

Science journalists discuss the current state of their profession and its future.

February 24, 2012

EPA's top air official, Gina McCarthy, leads roundtable discussion.

EPA air chief talks energy, environment with MIT experts

January 31, 2012

Research Scientist Valerie Karplus (right) has been working with Henry Jacoby (left), John Heywood, John Reilly, and others to examine different policy approaches to motivating drivers to consume less gasoline in their cars. Using a specially formulated model based on empirical data about people’s vehicle purchase and travel behavior, advanced vehicle types (including plug-in hybrids), and more,...

Designing policies to curb fuel use, GHG emissions

January 10, 2012

Many climate researchers assume that aerosols — microscopic particles in the atmosphere — help to cool the Earth. But new research from MIT shows that aerosols not only cool but also heat the planet, a finding that calls into question some key assumptions about climate change.

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.

July 9, 2010

Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian

Presented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival

July 7, 2010

Noelle Selin, an assistant professor of engineering systems in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division

3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury

As U.N. negotiations begin this week on a global mercury treaty, an MIT atmospheric scientist explains the challenges ahead.

June 7, 2010

This image, taken by NASA's Terra satellite, shows the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico reflected by the sun.

3 Questions: John Marshall on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

An MIT oceanographer discusses why ‘we have never had a spill like this’ — and what that means for cleanup efforts.

June 1, 2010

Explained: Climate sensitivity

If we double the Earth’s greenhouse gases, how much will the temperature change? That’s what this number tells you.

March 19, 2010

Weather in a Tank

A curriculum built around a rotating-tank experiment could improve weather and climate education

March 17, 2010

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