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MIT students help cities plan for changing climateTen graduate students from MIT recently spent three weeks in Durban, South Africa, working on a project to develop an online tool that could help municipal governments around the world adapt to a changing climate. July 22, 2008 Don't bank on long-term climate policy successLong-term climate change policy in the United States and abroad is likely to change very slowly, warns an MIT professor who says the lack of future flexibility argues for stronger short-term goals to reduce carbon emissions. July 11, 2008 MIT shows China quake was rare eventA new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity. Similar events in that area occur only once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years. June 30, 2008 MIT researcher envisions towering Katrina memorialAfter Hurricane Katrina left its trail of destruction along the Gulf coast, MIT research affiliate Joe Davis decided to do something to memorialize the event. His idea? Build a tower that will capture electricity from lightning and throw energy back into the sky. June 4, 2008 The Earth below, the sky aboveTwenty-five years ago, MIT decided to bring together the Earth and the sky. In the years that followed, many others did the same. June 3, 2008 Seafoam hits fan over hurricane researchKerry Emanuel, MIT professor of meteorology, answers questions about his latest complex hurricane research, the results of which, he says, validate the connection he found between global warming and hurricane intensity in a 2005 study using historical data. May 1, 2008 Mapping Earth's soil moistureProfessor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements to improve weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. April 28, 2008 New MIT study validates hurricane predictionHurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms worldwide may decline, according to a new study by MIT researchers. April 17, 2008 |
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