Will we ever stop using fossil fuels?
Not without a carbon tax, suggests a study by an MIT economist.
Not without a carbon tax, suggests a study by an MIT economist.
Sponges may be source of molecular fossils that significantly predate Cambrian explosion.
Experts examine how MIT can be most effective in addressing climate-change issues.
Study finds human-made aerosols exert strong influence on the geography of precipitation.
Benefits from international regulations may double those of domestic policy.
Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno and MIT scientists join forces to confront climate crisis at United Nations conference.
Researchers find geomagnetic field intensity is double the long-term historical average.
MIT researchers find that a similar principle predicts the growth of fractures and rivers.
Shape of a landscape determines the thickness of Earth’s life-sustaining “critical zone.”
Timely vehicle recall by German automaker would avoid some 130 early deaths, researchers say.
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology describes how atmospheric water contributes to climate change.
Quakes can change elastic properties of the Earth’s crust up to 6,000 kilometers away.
Study finds pledges by top greenhouse gas emitters leaves little room for others; urges greater R&D.
Tanja Bosak examines how life and the Earth evolved in tandem during their early history together.