Understanding the scale and nature of the scientific, environmental, economic, policy and public health aspects of climate change demands evidence-based research in an environment of free and open inquiry. The...Read more

The University of Chicago will commemorate Earth Day with a series of events designed to inform and engage the campus community on ongoing research, student-driven initiatives and sustainable projects. The...Read more

Former White House chef to deliver Frizzell Lecture on food security

Foam called Oleo Sponge pulls dispersed oil from water, including below surface

Water research is expanding at the Institute for Molecular Engineering , reaching from agriculture to medicine, basic science to product development. In 2013 the institute launched the Water Research Initiative...Read more

Estimated yields of certain crops could fall as much as 50 percent

UChicago’s Polsky Center to mentor clean tech, advanced manufacturing entrepreneurs

A drought on the scale of the legendary Dust Bowl crisis of the 1930s would have similarly destructive effects on U.S. agriculture today, despite technological and agricultural advances, a new...Read more

World-leading theoretical chemist to hold Crown Family Professorship

New modeling approach forecasts changes in storm behavior, flood risk

The Office of Sustainability works with campus and community partners to enhance a culture of sustainability using a data-driven, yet relationship-based approach that strives to connect students, faculty and staff...Read more

Assoc. Prof. Laurens Mets develops technology that makes wind, solar power more viable

While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, the Earth’s soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined...Read more

New report tracks water savings, emissions reductions

Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular level under extreme conditions is critical to understanding the Earth’s deep carbon cycle—a process that ultimately influences global climate change. Contrary...Read more

Abrams clinic provides pro bono legal work, experience for students

EPIC focuses on India, China where air quality is a pressing health concern

Climate change could have happened much sooner, if not for naturally high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In a paper published July 20 in the journal Climatic Change...Read more

The adage “you are what you eat” is true on societal, cultural and global levels, as well as the individual level. Our diets may be contributing to the rapid rise...Read more

Novel approach yields major savings, reduces emissions