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MIT CS3-affiliated oceanographer/biogeochemist Andrew Babbin aims to improve our understanding of how #nitrogen cycles through the #ocean and its impact on #ecosystem health and the Earth's #climate.

The new @eapsMIT head, CS3-affiliated David McGee, applies scientific methods to reconstruct Earth’s #climate history, helping to ground-truth our understanding of how the climate system responds during periods of rapid change.

What can we do to improve understanding of #sustainability challenges and help decision‑makers to address them? To learn what MIT CS3 researchers have been doing lately, see our February 2025 e-newsletter. #climate #energy #agriculture #resilience

Federal #climate inaction imperils property #insurance and #DisasterRelief programs amid increase in extreme #weather events, say CS3-affiliate/MIT Professor of Management Emeritus Henry Jacoby and co-authors in a new commentary in The Hill.

Sai Ravela, a CS3-affiliated principal research scientist at the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, is leading a new project that aims to develop #climate projections for climate-resilient #agriculture in #India.

Fully #ElectricVehicles are usually the cleanest choice, but a hybrid vehicle can create even less #climate pollution, depending how and where they're manufactured and driven, says Ask MIT Climate guest expert MIT CS3 Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev.

To cap global warming @ 1.5°C & prevent more severe #climate impacts, we'll need to not only reduce greenhouse gas #emissions but also ramp up #carbon dioxide removal (CDR). A new MIT CS3 study shows how to implement CDR cost-effectively & sustainably.

A new MIT CS3 Special Report shows that sustainable #aviation fuel, combined with efficiency improvements, #emissions mitigation policies and other measures, could enable Latin America's aviation sector to achieve #net-zero #carbon emissions by 2050.

While the annual average for #GlobalWarming may bob above and below 1.5°C in the coming years, it will eventually stay above the threshold, likely by the mid-2030s, says MIT CS3 Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser. How should we respond to this development?

This year’s MIT Policy Hackathon challenged teams to help #Massachusetts mitigate #flooding impacts on low-income communities. Focused on #climate, #equity & #water, the Hackathon was sponsored by MIT CS3 & organized by CS3-affiliated student Albert Chen.

A paper co-authored by CS3 affiliate/MIT Prof. Susan Solomon sheds new light on how #hydrogen fuel that escapes from pipelines & storage facilities can affect the #climate, reinforcing the need to prevent leakage if this clean-burning fuel is widely used.

MIT CS3 at COP16: MIT sent 10 delegates--including the CS3's Kevin Lin Yang--to the global Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity. The delegates showcased the breadth of MIT’s research in more than 15 events. #biodiversity

@ScienceMagazine: Food trade is interconnected by financial markets, geopolitics, climate and global shipping, says MIT CS3 Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek, who is helping develop a global index of each country's food vulnerability through 2050.

Research led by MIT CS3-affiliated researcher Björn Lütjens combines generative #AI model with physics-based flood model to create realistic images of a region, showing where #flooding is likely to occur given the strength of an oncoming storm.

MIT Energy Initiative study: Many #climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost & deployment of “direct air capture,” and therefore may not bring about promised reductions. All co-authors affiliated with MIT CS3.

MIT CS3 at #COP29: On 11-19 in Baku, Azerbaijan, MIT CS3 Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev spoke on increasing the efficiency & #sustainability of #agriculture @ the #Indonesia Pavilion session on Carbon Reduction in Indonesia’s Agriculture Value Chain.

The 2024 AGU Fall Meeting includes 29 CS3-affiliated co-authors of presentations, and conveners of conference sessions. Their 39 presentations and sessions span multiple research topics, from Earth and societal system modeling to air quality and health.

A study led by MIT CS3 researchers shows that there is enough land to support efforts to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius while addressing competing needs for long-term #FoodSecurity and #ecosystem health. #landuse #climate

How might the island nation of Taiwan decarbonize its economy in a #sustainable manner amid a global transition away from fossil fuels? CS3 Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev is working to identify viable pathways toward a more energy secure future for Taiwan.

Will current plans that rely on direct air capture of CO2 be effective in stabilizing the #climate in coming years? @mitenergy & CS3 researchers expect such plans to prove unaffordable, but view DAC as an important tool to meet #NetZero #emissions goals.