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When fellow grad students persuaded me to give rugby a try 50 years ago this spring, I had no idea I was in for an epic ride.

In 2015 the Paris Climate Change Conference decided that the world must take urgent action to ideally contain global warming to plus 1.5 degrees Centigrade

At MIT’s 2021 Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecturer, biostatistician Francesca Dominici illuminated the interplay between air pollution, environmental injustice, and Covid-19.

 E-Mail IMAGE: An image of Gosan measurement station - part of the AGAGE monitoring network - on Jeju Island in South Korea. Measurements from this station were used in the study to... view more  Credit: AGAGE Global emissions of a potent substance notorious for depleting the Earth's ozone layer - the protective barrier which absorbs the Sun's harmful UV rays - have fallen rapidly and are now back on the decline, according to new research. Two international studies published today in Nature, show emissions of CFC-11, one of the many chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) chemicals once widely us...

Researchers studied data on the atmospheric levels of the chemical CFC-11  This is a chlorofluorocarbon and was banned from global production in 2010 It is a potent greenhouse gas that can have the same impact as CO2 from a city There was a spike in emissions from CFC-11 in 2018 that was tracked to China The Chinese government shutdown the rule-breaking factory and made arrests with the new data confirming CFC-11 emissions are once again declining