climate change Archives

Projecting climate change impact on malaria transmission in Africa

November 30, 2020 | CEE Profiles | CEE Chief Editor

For Elfatih Eltahir, malaria symptoms always began the same way: chills that eventually gave way to high fever, a pounding headache, and nausea that persisted until this cycle finally broke days later. First encountered at a […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s article in Top 50 (#10) most read Earth and planetary sciences Nature Communications articles published in 2018

July 22, 2019 | News | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s article titled “North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation,” is one of the Top 50 (#10) most read Earth and planetary sciences Nature Communications […]

PhD student Josh Moss highlighted for his research on urban pollution

March 4, 2019 | CEE Profiles | ceemit

PhD student Josh Moss studying Atmospheric chemistry in Professor Jesse Kroll’s Lab, is examining the chemistry of gases and particles in the atmosphere that humans are releasing, and their interactions with existing particles in the atmosphere. […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir hosts workshop discussing national security repercussions of climate change

March 1, 2019 | News | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir hosted a workshop at MIT, organized by the Lincoln Laboratory in collaboration with CEE, to examine national security repercussions of climate change. The workshop was attended by MIT researchers and […]

PhD student Catherine Nikiel discusses her research on climate change at the regional scale

December 3, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

PhD student Catherine Nikiel, working in Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s Lab, is studying the impact of climate change on different aspects of the hydrological cycle. In particular, she is investigating the impact of land-use […]

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows China could face deadly heat waves due to a combination of climate change and irrigation

August 3, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows that China’s most populous and agriculturally important region could face deadly heat waves unless significant measures are taken at the global scale to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigate climate […]

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir featured in Science Magazine

February 16, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter was featured in Science Magazine. The news article about the CEE study, entitled “The United States’s Corn Belt is making its own weather,” discusses how agriculture had a […]

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows intensive agriculture has impact on summer climate in Midwest United States

February 13, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter shows that intensive agriculture has an impact on summer climate in the Midwestern United States. Eltahir and Alter demonstrated that there was a significant empirical association […]

New Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows intense heat waves could harm South Asia

August 2, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]New research from Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows that deadly heat waves could harm South Asia, the home to one-fifth of the world’s population. The research suggests that climate change may cause summer heat […]

Concrete Sustainability Hub awarded funds to evaluate environmental impact of new buildings on campus

July 21, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) Executive Director Jeremy Gregory and Co-Director Randy Kirchain were recently announced among the first-ever recipients of funding from the Campus Sustainability Incubator Fund through the MIT Office of Sustainability. The researchers will […]

Research shows that climate change could damage peatlands, causing major carbon emissions

June 12, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Research from Professor Charles Harvey into one of the last undisturbed tropical peat forests gives insight into how peatlands form and function, which could be important for evaluating future effects of climate change. The findings were […]

Research by Dara Entekhabi sheds light on likely increase of precipitation in California

January 3, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]New research by Bacardi Stockholm Water Foundations Professor Dara Entekhabi and a team of researchers found that extreme precipitation is expected to increase in California due to Earth’s warming climate. The researchers studied large-scale atmospheric features […]

Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat

November 2, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

In a study of high-resolution climate models by Prof. Elfatih Eltahir and alumnus Jeremy Pal ‘97, it has been revealed that parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented events of deadly heat as a result […]

Study: Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat

October 27, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Detailed climate simulation shows a threshold of survivability could be crossed without mitigation measures. Within this century, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented events of deadly heat as a […]

Boston: Sink or Swim Panel on Monday, September 21

September 16, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On September 21, join us from 6-7:30 pm for a pizza dinner and viewing of the Boston Athenaeum’s panel “Boston: Sink or Swim,” featuring MIT faculty discussing the impacts of climate change in the Boston area. […]