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A new method predicts how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve due to climate change. Using New York as a test case, the model predicts Hurricane Sandy-level flooding will occur roughly every 30 years by 2099.

MIT Geophysicist William Frank discusses the recent earthquake in Japan off the Noto Peninsula, which is part of an earthquake swarm that started in 2020. These swarms are different than subduction earthquakes and are less understood.

Scientists say astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence of carbon dioxide in their atmospheres.

Plate tectonics can trigger ice ages through the production of the carbon-trapping mineral smectite, according to a new MIT study.

MIT Professor Robert van der Hilst is stepping down as head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences after more than a decade in that role.

NASA’s Psyche mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own. Its principal investigator is MIT alumna and former professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who leads a team including longtime MIT colleagues on the first mission to a metal world.

MIT scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability.

MIT Professor Richard Binzel describes how asteroid dirt and dust delivered by OSIRIS-Rex, with help from MIT students and the REXIS instrument, may reveal clues to the solar system’s origins.

A new study suggests patches of fertile soil in the Amazon, known as dark earth, were intentionally produced by ancient Amazonians as a way to improve the soil and sustain large and complex societies.

Without Prochlorococcus in the open ocean sequestering huge amounts of carbon, “we would be looking at a very different planet,” Rogier Braakman says. New research suggests the microbe’s ancient coastal ancestors colonized the ocean by rafting out on chitin particles.