News & Media: Interconnected Systems

With warmer ocean temperatures, the composition of marine plankton could shift from protein-rich to carb-heavy, suggests new study co-authored by MIT CS3 Senior Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz (MIT News) (Coverage: Earth.com, Oceanographic Magazine)

A new model shows how levels of the “atmosphere’s detergent” may rise and fall in response to climate change, according to a study co-authored by MIT Prof. Arlene Fiore and postdoc Paolo Giani, both CS3 affiliates (MIT News)

MIT CS3 Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser highlights what we can expect from the global to the local (Boston Globe)

Lecture series explores the science of climate change and policies to stabilize the global climate (MIT Open Learning)

A new study co-authored by MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Andrew Babbin and MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Ryan Woosley finds hitchhiking bacteria dissolve essential ballast in ubiquitous “snow” particles, which could counteract the ocean’s ability to sequester carbon. (MIT News)

A 2025 study co-authored by MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon showed that "the actions taken under the Montreal Protocol to reduce ozone-depleting substances are the primary reason for the recovery of the ozone layer." (Discover)

In research that could help elucidate humans’ role in global warming, MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon and co-authors show how three major natural events impacted global atmospheric temperatures (MIT News)

MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris co-authors 7th Insight, 'Impacts on labor productivity,' which shows how Increasing heat stress is projected to reduce working hours and economic output (Carbon Brief)

Multiple MIT CS3 researchers have shared their climate science and policy expertise on the new podcast (Boston College Schiller Institute)