Earth and atmospheric sciences

A sign indicating a hurricane evacuation route near Boca Raton, Florida.

Saving lives through smarter hurricane evacuations

MIT student's software seen aiding emergency officials' decision-making

August 28, 2008

Understanding climate change complacency

Sloan's Sterman sees flawed reasoning at root of problem

August 20, 2008

Geobiologist Newman follows a rocky road

New HHMI investigator sees clues to life in ancient rocks

August 4, 2008

MIT graduate student Tijs Van Maasakkers, right, examines one of the water lines near Durban, South Africa.

MIT students help cities plan for changing climate

South Africa trip prompts work on online tool with global application

July 22, 2008

MIT expert: Don't count on long-term success in climate policy

Says policy-making requires ambitious short-term goals

July 11, 2008

The mountains near the Min River south of Wenchuan City, close to the epicenter of the recent earthquake in China that has killed more than 65,000 people to date.

MIT shows China quake was rare event

Could be a long wait before next big temblor--or maybe not

June 30, 2008

Jane McNabb, worked at MIT for 47 years

June 12, 2008

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences awards

June 6, 2008

MIT biology research affiliate Joe Davis works in his apartment in Cambridge on the prototype for a Hurricane Katrina memorial--a 109-foot tower that will send laser beams into the sky. He recently won a Rockefeller fellowship for the project.

Research affiliate envisions towering Katrina memorial

June 4, 2008

The Earth below, the sky above: MIT's trend-setting EAPS turns 25

June 3, 2008

Seafoam hits fan over hurricane research

April 29, 2008

Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team for NASA's Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) satellite mission, scheduled to launch in December 2012. A 6-meter deployable mesh antenna on the satellite will gather soil moisture and freeze/thaw data across 1,000-kilometer swaths, creating ribbons of measurements around the globe and completing the cycle every few days.

Mapping Earth's soil moisture

Entekhabi to lead science team for NASA satellite mission

April 28, 2008

New MIT study validates hurricane prediction

Provides confirmation that climate change intensifies storms

April 17, 2008

News that oozes: Panelists tackle challenges of communicating climate change

April 16, 2008

Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90