News + Media: Earth Systems
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Around Campus
MIT News | Mar 01, 2022
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News Release
MIT News | Feb 16, 2022
![Caption :The Climate Grand Challenges competition launched in July 2020 with the goal of mobilizing the entire MIT research community around transformative projects that have the potential to make major advances in solving the big problems that stand in the way of effective global climate response. Credits :Image: stock photo MIT-Climate-Challenge-01_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-Climate-Challenge-01_WEB.jpg?itok=SCuZ8MJQ)
![Image: The 2021 Global Change Outlook presents the MIT Joint Program’s latest projections for the future of the Earth’s energy, food, water and climate systems, and prospects for achieving the Paris Agreement’s climate goals. (Source: NOAA) 2021outlook_cover.jpg](https://globalchange-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/2021outlook_cover.jpg?itok=IHOD_OEM)
News Brief
Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center | Feb 10, 2022
![Photo: ESI Journalism Fellow (left) connects climate science and solutions with issues of importance to the readership of St. Cloud Times in Minnesota (Source: Shannon Rathmanner) ESI_Fellows_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/ESI_Fellows_WEB.jpg?itok=wy4ObHFy)
News Release
Environmental Solutions Initiative | Jan 19, 2022
![Photo: Arlene Fiore uses satellite data paired with ground observations to refine our understanding of ozone smog and interactions with meteorology and climate. (Source: MIT/Steph Stevens)](https://globalchange-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/arlene-air-pollution-from-space-mit-00_0_WEB.jpg?itok=JPwYV-7Q)
![Image: "The 1.5 degrees goal can be a ‘useful spur to action,’ but it’s not a make or break point. Importantly, each 0.1-degree increase avoided is ’cause for celebration and hope.’" (Source: Yale Climate Connections) 0122_1point5_1600_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/0122_1point5_1600_WEB.jpg?itok=CziiLLCl)
Commentary
Yale Climate Connections | Jan 05, 2022
![Caption :Where the microbe Prochlorococcus, pictured in green, lives is not determined primarily by temperature, as previously thought. An MIT study finds that a relationship with bacteria, purple, and a shared predator, orange, actually sets the microbe’s range. Credits :Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT MIT-PlanktonPlace-01-press_0_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-PlanktonPlace-01-press_0_WEB.jpg?itok=R_We8Tdi)
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MIT News | Jan 04, 2022
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News Release
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | Dec 17, 2021