Recent News

Climate change makes summer weather stormier yet more stagnant

Study finds rising temperatures feed more energy to thunderstorms, less to general circulation
Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century

Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.
Institute Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm has won the 2019 Crafoord Prize

MIT Institute Professor Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm is awarded the Crafoord Prize 2019 for her discovery of and research into a miniscule organism of huge importance

Events

Michael Mann: The Madhouse Effect (Starr Forum)
March 6, 2019
What Should Cities Do?
February 27, 2019
Global Change and the Ecology of Vector-Borne Disease
February 22, 2019