Study finds accounting for year-to-year variability enables more accurate projections of climate change and its impacts.

Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to stronger Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago.

At UN Climate Change Conference, MIT researchers share insights on implementing climate commitments.

Why is it so hard for human beings to address climate change? What can motivate effective action? 

Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.

Richard Alley delivers 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate.

Awards to recent alumni honor the memory of Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a pioneer in earth and atmospheric sciences.

Scientists reconstruct first hours after a giant impact created one of the largest craters on the moon.

System predicts how MIT’s tallest structure responds to vibrations, may help monitor stress over time.