In the Blue Holes of the Bahamas, Secrets of Hurricanes Past

Scientists assembled a 1,500-year history of big storm activity by retrieving sediment from the island country’s submarine caverns. View all spotlights

Fall 2019 MESO-SCOPE Meeting

Members of the MIT Darwin project hosted Benedetto Barone (U Hawaii) and Kate Evans (U Montana) for a week of face-to-face collaboration focused on advancing theory and modeling efforts geared towards exploring mesoscale and submesoscale marine ecological structure in the Subtropical North Pacific. View all spotlights

The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole

The unexpected discovery of a hole in the atmospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic revolutionized science — and helped to establish one of the most successful global environmental policies of the twentieth century. View all spotlights

Assessing changes and risks to the oceans, land and atmosphere

MIT Joint Program researchers to present latest findings at AGU Fall Meeting View all spotlights

A Workshop on Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport

On Monday, June 10th, the EAPS department held a workshop on Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport in honor of Prof. Emertius R. Alan Plumb View all spotlights

Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted

Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather than collapsing catastrophically. View all spotlights

Experts urge “full speed ahead” on climate action

Panelists at MIT climate change symposium describe the state of knowledge in climate science and stress the urgent need for action. View all spotlights

The 2019 PAOC Retreat: Jiminy Peak

This year’s annual PAOC retreat had students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff from MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences escape to Jiminy Peak in Hancock, MA for a weekend event of science and socializing. View all spotlights

President Reif speaks at MIT Climate Symposium

President L. Rafael Reif delivered the below introductory remarks at today’s “Progress in Climate Science” symposium. View all spotlights

DEAPS: Understanding Extreme Weather and Climate, from Top to Bottom

The Discovering EAPS (DEAPS) Pre-orientation Program (FPOP) Extreme Weather and Climate immerses 2019 first year students in the geosciences at all scales. View all spotlights

In the 1980s, the World Acted to Save the Ozone Layer. Here's Why the Fight Against Climate Change Is Different

In 1986 and ’87, Susan Solomon, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies in MIT's EAPS, led expeditions to Antarctica to determine the cause of the ozone hole: CFCs. View all spotlights