Featured Stories

• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 27, 2017

  Tiny Bacterium Provides Window into Whole Ecosystems

  Ubiquitous marine organism has co-evolved with other microbes, promoting more complex ecosystems.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 24, 2017

  Storied Women of MIT: Pauline Morrow Austin

  Storied Women of MIT is a series of 60-second historical profiles of MIT students, researchers, and staff that demonstrates the role of women at the Institute from its founding to today.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 24, 2017

  Global Trekker

  “This work has allowed me to see most of the world.” Geologist Oliver Jagoutz scales mountains to gain tectonic insights.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | March 23, 2017

  Corals Die as Global Warming Collides with Local Weather in the South China Sea

  New research highlights the devastation caused when global-scale ocean warming interacts with short-lived weather anomalies, and adds urgency to the question of how reefs will fare through the end of this century.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | March 21, 2017

  Understanding Ocean Changes

  The story of a unique partnership between commercial fishermen and scientists.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 20, 2017

  Worm-Inspired Material Strengthens, Changes Shape in Response to its Environment

  A bio-inspired gel material developed at MIT could help engineers control movements of soft robots.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | March 10, 2017

  Exploring Ancient Ocean Acidification in the Rock Record

  Scientists studying Earth's ancient oceans use a new method to measure ocean acidification and its effect on extinction events.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 6, 2017

  Underwater Mountains Help Ocean Water Rise from Abyss

  Turbulence from seafloor topography may explain longstanding question about ocean circulation.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | March 2, 2017

  Taking Earth’s Inner Temperature

  A new WHOI study suggests the mantle -- the mostly solid, rocky part of Earth's interior that lies between its super-heated core and its outer crustal layer -- may be hotter than previously believed.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 23, 2017

  Climate@MIT

  A new online publication from MIT reports on exciting climate science research at MIT. We focus on climate as a fundamental science, but occasionally comment on climate action and policy at MIT and climate research occurring elsewhere.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 20, 2017

  PAOC Faculty Promotions

  Congratulations to Michael Follows and David McGee for their recent promotions, recognizing their achievements and contributions to the department.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 7, 2017

  Aerocene Soars at the 47th World Economic Forum Meeting

  Climate-conscious sculptures influence world perspectives in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 6, 2017

  Faculty Promotions

  The Executive Committee of the Corporation has approved the promotion of Michael Follows to Full Professor and David McGee to Associate Professor (effective July 2017.)
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 1, 2017

  Transparent, Gel-based Robots Can Catch and Release Live Fish

  Made from hydrogel, robots may one day assist in surgical operations, evade underwater detection.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | January 31, 2017

  How the smallest, most abundant bacteria inspired a children’s book series

  Institute Professor Penny Chisholm teams up with author and illustrator Molly Bang to write environmental children’s book series.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 31, 2017

  Atmospheres, Oceans and Planetary Studies on Display at AGU

  Over the week of December 12th, members of MIT’s PAOC attended the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 49th annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | January 30, 2017

  Explained: Greenhouse gases

  Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration. By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office When hearing the words “greenhouse gas,” most people think immediately of carbon dioxide. This is indeed the greenhouse gas that is currently producing the greatest impact on the Earth’s rapidly changing … Continue reading Explained: Greenhouse gases →
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 30, 2017

  Solomon is 2017 National Academy of Sciences Medalist

  Susan Solomon, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive the 2017 National Academy of Sciences, Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 26, 2017

  Ono is 2017 EAG Medallist

  Prof Shuhei Ono receives the 2017 Paul Gast Lectureship of the European Association of Geochemistry.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 26, 2017

  Celebrating Pauline Morrow Austin: A Founder of Radar Meteorology

  MIT Faculty, friends and family of Mrs. Austin gathered to remember her life and commemorate her contributions to science with the unveiling of an exhibit in EAPS.