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Anne McCants, MIT professor of history, describes how we can derive hope about climate change by learning from human societies that thrived in difficult conditions of the preindustrial past.Photo: Richard Howard

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May 6, 2020

3 Questions: Anne McCants on climate change in history

How, in the nadir of the Little Ice Age, did the Dutch generate a golden age?

MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.Photo courtesy EAPS News.

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May 6, 2020

Kerry Emanuel elected a Royal Society foreign member

Professor of atmospheric science honored for his work on atmospheric physics and dynamics of tropical weather patterns.

A microinjection device (red) is attached to a citrus tree, providing a way of injecting pesticide or other materials directly into the plant's circulatory system.Images: Courtesy of the researchers

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April 27, 2020

Engineers develop precision injection system for plants

Microneedles made of silk-based material can target plant tissues for delivery of micronutrients, hormones, or genes.

Beyond the hyper-rational debates of "jobs vs. environment" — and based on her own family heritage and home territory — MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas illuminates "the cultural underpinnings that have allowed anti-science propaganda to gai...

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April 24, 2020

Associate Professor Amy Moran-Thomas receives the 2020 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

The award will support the MIT anthropologist's research on the cultural dimensions of climate denialism.

A glimpse into the microscale world in the ocean: marine bacteria (green and cyan) feed on nutrients exuding from a genetically modified phytoplankton (orange). These bacteria release a substance called DMS that contributes to cloud formation.Image...

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April 23, 2020

Researchers explore ocean microbes’ role in climate effects

When they encounter nutrient oases in the marine desert, marine bacteria release a gas involved in climate regulation.

This iconic photograph of Earth, taken by Apollo 17 astronauts on December 7, 1972, is considered NASA’s most widely distributed picture. It is the first photograph that clearly showed the full Earth.Image courtesy of NASA

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April 22, 2020

On Earth Day, lessons from Covid-19 pandemic offer hope

“Every emergency reveals that ‘impossible’ things are actually doable,” President Rafael Reif writes in Boston Globe op-ed.

While superior battery technology is still in our future, MIT Vice President for Research Maria Zuber is already encouraged by the increased use of renewable energy.

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April 22, 2020

Maria Zuber on climate change: “Breakthroughs will happen”

MIT’s vice president for research identifies three areas that show particular promise for climate action.

April 22, 2020

Taking Virtual Climate Actions

The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change engaged dozens of decision-makers in the financial sector and industry in a two-hour Zoom discussion on climate-related financial risk.

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April 16, 2020

Can financial disclosure of climate risk accelerate climate action?

Online panel discussion hosted by MIT explores best practices for mitigating climate-related risk.

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