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A flare burns natural gas at an oil well on Aug. 26, 2021, in Watford City, N.D.

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Despite the relatively modest scale of investment in clean energy by oil and gas companies so far, there are several business reasons oil companies…
An arial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.

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A new study is unearthing how and why peatlands are producing carbon dioxide and methane. 
Car exhaust (Adobe: elcovalana)

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Scientists team up to better understand how certain types of air pollution increase the risk of developing dementia. 
2025 SEI External Faculty Fellows with their Georgia Tech Hosts

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The Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) at Georgia Tech concluded its third cohort of Energy Faculty Fellows in August, welcoming a diverse…

Tech Tower

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Ryan Lively and Matthew McDowell are recognized for pioneering work in sustainable chemical engineering and advanced battery technologies.
Drawdown dashboard

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The climate solutions tracker features a county-by-county breakdown of which technologies could most benefit the environment.
Rampi Ramprasad

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The project addresses one of the world’s most pressing challenges in sustainability: eliminating plastic waste.
stock image of people planting trees in a forest

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Agriculture is the largest cause of deforestation. So, it follows that forest expansion efforts would displace agriculture — but new research from…
A tractor applying lime

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Liming, a centuries-old agricultural practice, can improve crop yield and greenhouse gas reduction.
An AI rendering of a rapidly charging battery.

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Charging batteries quickly was thought to degrade them. Georgia Tech’s findings flip that logic and open new doors for energy storage.

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Atlanta Journal Constitution

Group to promote state as center for hydrogen energy amid surge in public and provide investments.

Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s…

iu’s lab in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) developed a more compact flow battery cell configuration that reduces the size of the cell by 75%, and correspondingly reduces the size and cost of the entire flow battery.
ElectronicWeekly.com

Sub-millimeter microtubular (hollow fibre) bundled membranes could shrink the size of flow battery reactors, according to the…

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Georgia Public Broadcasting

Researchers from Georgia Tech are using funding from the U.S Department of Energy to reimagine Atlanta’s electric power…

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Reuters

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to increase biofuel blending mandates through 2025 would lead to a near-term…

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Scientific American
SK Innovation, Hyundai Georgia Battery Factory
The Atlanta Journal Constitution

South Korean conglomerates SK Innovation and Hyundai Motor Group plan a sprawling electric vehicle battery plant in Bartow …

DirACC @ CNES in Georgia Tech
MSN

A pair of 2,000-gallon water tanks standing 15 feet tall occupy a cordoned-off portion of a parking lot down the street from…

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Yahoo

The new Drawdown Georgia GHG Emissions Tracker is a free, first-of-its-kind, interactive tool that shows where greenhouse…

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Researchers Study Why Power Restoration After Major Storms Can Take so Long

Georgia Tech's Chuanyi Ji leads research on why power restoration after major storms can take so long.

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Better The World campaign

Georgia Tech faculty Tim Lieuwen, Adam Cohen, and Rich Simmons authored this op-ed on how climate change might be…