News & Media: Earth Systems

Maike Sonnewald adapts a method that identifies areas of the global ocean with similar physics, revealing global dynamical regimes

Susan Solomon’s research pinpointed how CFCs caused the Antarctic ozone hole—and later showed that the Montreal Protocol is helping to mend it. She’s convinced we can make progress on addressing climate change, too. (Technology Review)

Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly: Climate change one of multiple factors making wildfires, and hence air quality, worse (PolitiFact)

EAPS/IDSS Associate Professor Noelle Selin, a Joint Program faculty affiliate, coauthored the technical background document, contributing to the modeling chapter (5) with former postdocs, including the Joint Program's Sae Yun Kwon

Experts assess potential global destabilization caused by climate change impacts on water supplies, land use, and migration

Study finds rising temperatures feed more energy to thunderstorms, less to general circulation

As machine learning expands into climate modeling, EAPS Associate Professor Paul O’Gorman answers what that looks like and why it's important now

CNN: Co-authors include Joint Program research scientists Stephanie Dutkiewicz and Erwan Monier (Additional coverage: Washington Post, The Guardian, National Geographic, BBC News, WBUR, Salon) 

MIT atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon delivers the portion of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists statement focused on climate change, an area of particular concern (Nature)

How hard did aging hit the oceans? MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly comments in The Daily Beast

Joint Program Co-Director Ronald Prinn and former PhD student Jimmy Gasore recognized for initiating the project