MIT Joint Program-affiliated Professor Susan Solomon (EAPS) co-authors study in Nature Scientific Reports
Researchers published a scientific paper that explicitly refutes an assertion by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on climate change. Related Links: Popular Science EnviroNews
Joint Program researcher Valerie Karplus awarded grant for project focusing on the response of industrial firms to energy-efficiency policies
Using detailed data from firms in China, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Karplus will investigate what characteristics of firms determine how policy affects production costs and firm competitiveness. Earlier seed grant led to U.S. EPA funding for Noelle Selin and Susan Solomon's project identifying new ways to evaluate the success of emissions-control measures tailored to reduce particulate pollution.
Over the next century, southern Africa will see widespread decreases in maize production
'This is not a view shared by us': After MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen writes letter urging Trump to withdraw from climate accord, faculty responds.
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Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration
Susan Solomon, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at MIT, will receive the 2017 National Academy of Sciences, Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship
How Models Can Help Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change Uncertainties
Through warming effects, methane and other gases impact rising seas long after leaving the atmosphere
John Fernández ’85, MIT professor and recently-named director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI): “I have always been most excited by creating an environment where there are no boundaries between disciplines.
John Fernández ’85 is not interested in overleaping boundaries so much as erasing them. The MIT professor, who was recently named director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), started out as a child who loved math and art, and saw no reason to keep them separate.
MIT researchers demonstrate new approach to designing location-specific emissions-control measures
Susan Solomon co-authors study in Nature Climate Change
A large group of climate scientists has made a bracing statement in the journal Nature Climate Change, arguing that we are mistaken if we think global warming is only a matter of the next 100 years or so.
