Interconnected Systems

MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon joins Rachel Feltman on Scientific American’s Science Quickly podcast to discuss her experience researching the cause and solution for the Antarctic ozone hole in the 1980s. “Amazingly, we can show, with 95 percent confidence, now the Antarctic ozone hole is beginning to heal,” says Solomon, who published a paper on that topic last year. “That was a real incredible moment for me…I was there in 1986, and in 2026 I saw this paper appear that actually shows that we can be confident we’re seeing recovery.” (Scientific American)

Scientists say an exception in the Montreal Protocol for the use of ozone-depleting feedstocks could set the ozone recovery back seven years, in new study co-authored by MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon and CS3 Research Scientist Luke Western (MIT News)

How the climate crisis has already impacted oceans locally and globally, the biggest challenges moving forward, and potential solutions to help oceans heal from human-caused degradation, with Gareth Lawson, Senior Scientist in Ocean Conservation at the Conservation Law Foundation, and Raffaele Ferrari, MIT Prof. of Oceanography/CS3 faculty affiliate. Each episode of Climate Reveal takes a deep dive into a specific aspect of the climate crisis and ongoing work toward solutions. (Boston College Creative Communication Lab)