Can Solar Geoengineering Save the World?
As the idea of solar geoengineering picks up steam, Harding invites everyone to join the conversation, starting with learning about what it is, how it works, and whether or not this once-niche proposition really can save the world.
Partnership for Inclusive Innovation 2024 Summer Internship Applications Now Open
PIN's Opportunity for All – Innovation for Good Student Applications for Summer open through Feb. 11, 2024.
Photochemistry and a New Catalyst Could Make Fertilizer More Sustainable
New insight into the role of carbon in a low-temperature, light-based reaction may help create ammonia for fertilizer while a new catalyst offers a path to recycling the runoff.
Everlasting African Wildfires Fueled by Aerosol Feedback
Wildfires in Africa are fueled by a feedback loop mechanism as aerosols interact with the climate
Machine Learning Could be Key to Early Leakage Detection in Underground Carbon Storage Sites
The feasibility study by Georgia Tech researchers explores using conditional normalizing flows (CNFs) to convert seismic data points into usable information and observable images. This potential ability could make monitoring underground storage sites more
Poor and Disadvantaged People Sit in the Dark Longer After a Storm Outage
The research shows that people in lower socioeconomic tiers wait nearly three hours longer on average for their power to be restored.
Georgia Tech to Help Develop State’s First Climate Action Plan
The emissions tracker created by a Georgia Tech-led team will play an important role in the work, researchers say.
Study Reveals Wintertime Formation of Large Pollution Particles in China’s Skies
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences researchers find dangerous sulfates are formed, and their particles get bigger, within the plumes of pollution belching from coal-fired power plants.
Digging Into Greenland Ice: Unraveling Mysteries in Earth's Harshest Environments
Rachel Moore spent nearly 50 days in one of the most remote places on Earth, collecting ice cores; the research has implications for climate change predictions and searching for signs of life on icy worlds.
Janelle Dunlap Turns Beekeeping Into Art
The Urban Honey Bee Project’s new beekeeper in residence is creating art and educating the public with her practice.