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MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Daniel Varon and other researchers in the Varon Lab conducted a unique experiment with NOAA that involved operating nine satellites to observe methane emissions from a planned industry release, which enabled the first direct validation of the satellites’ methane data products (MIT AeroAstro)

A new way of simulating wind turbines in the field shows how tweaking turbine operation could unlock tens of thousands of dollars per turbine every year, finds study co-authored by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Michael Howland (MIT News)

Brazil will chair a new body in an ambitious effort to align the world’s fragmented carbon markets – a development that MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram calls a 'huge step' (Eco-Business)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel highlights how climate change is being drowned out of the national cost-of-living debate, even as U.S. households already pay an estimated $400 to $900 a year in climate-related costs (Politico)

The Climate Grand Challenges “New World of Weather” project, which involves several CS3-affiliated researchers, shows how modeling, planning tools, and infrastructure analysis are translating research into real-world resilience (Office of the Vice President for Energy and Climate)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Haruko Wainwright believes the risks posed by radioactive wastes cannot be properly assessed without also considering the hazards of chemical wastes (MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate John Sterman discusses AI’s potential and risks, and the role of public policy in steering the technology toward societal benefits, including climate solutions (Boston Globe)

In this new report co-authored by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram, the Global Climate Policy Project proposes a way to compare and connect different carbon-pricing systems without forcing them into a single model (Global Climate Policy Project)

In some regions of the world, the poorest people may spend about 50 percent of their income on food, while the richest spend about 5 percent, finds paper co-authored by MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris (MIT News)

MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon joins Cleo Abram’s “HUGE* If True” to discuss her 1985 research uncovering how chlorofluorocarbons were depleting the ozone layer, which led to the Montreal Protocol that banned the use of those chemicals. (“HUGE* If True)

Steel, cement, aluminum, and fertilizer sit behind a fifth of global emissions, and a carbon price floor could raise $200 billion a year, finds Science study led by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram (Earth.com)

Climate scientist/CS3 affiliate Sai Ravela is using games to help coastal communities find creative adaptations to climate change. (Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab)