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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.