Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems
2023 Global Change Outlook from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change quantifies benefits of policies that cap global warming at 1.5 C.
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change •
mit
Dec. 6, 2023 • ~11 min
Dec. 6, 2023 • ~11 min
Do we live in a giant void? It could solve the puzzle of the universe's expansion
If we lived in a cosmic area with below average density, it would explain recent contradictory measurements of the universe’s expansion.
Indranil Banik, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of St Andrews •
conversation
Nov. 30, 2023 • ~7 min
Nov. 30, 2023 • ~7 min
New study shows how universities are critical to emerging fusion industry
Fusion’s success as a renewable energy depends on the creation of an industry to support it, and academia is vital to that industry’s development.
Peter Reuell | Julianna Mullen | Plasma Science and Fusion Center •
mit
Nov. 30, 2023 • ~8 min
Nov. 30, 2023 • ~8 min
Why the Fed should treat climate change's $150B economic toll like other national crises it's helped fight
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.
Martin Sokol, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, Trinity College Dublin
• conversation
Nov. 29, 2023 • ~9 min
Nov. 29, 2023 • ~9 min
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