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Axios Atlanta

William Drummond, a Georgia Tech professor who created Drawdown Georgia's emissions tracker…

Graphic depiction of a geothermal power plant. Water is pumped down a deep borehole into hot rock that has been fractured, like fracking. The water gains heat and is forced up to the surface through a second borehole. The hot water is used to generate electricity, and then pumped back down for another cycle.
Scientific American

SEI Director, Tim Lieuwen, is quoted about geothermal energy's role in a less carbon intensive…

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AP News

Matthew McDowell, associate professor of engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, said…

Chunks of ice with distinctive melting patterns at the water line, float in a cluster near Antarctica.
Wired

Alexander Robel, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who leads…

Solar Panels
AJC

Suniva had been growing rapidly since its 2007 founding at Georgia Tech. The company filed…

Close up of a lithium-ion battery
SciTechDaily

Researchers from Georgia Tech's McDowell Lab are developing high-energy-density batteries using…

apples and sweet potatoes
BBC Future

Helen Anne Curry, a Georgia Tech professor in the School of History and Sociology, talks about…

Researcher working on battery technology
The Cool Down

Georgia Tech researcher Gleb Yushin is quoted about recent innovations in battery technology.

A thermal image of Atlanta, Georgia from 1997. NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The New York Times

Georgia Tech's Brian Stone weighs in on this feature looking at how Singapore could be a model…

A close-up image of a small, rectangular package in metal casing with the text "McDowell Lab" and a graphic of a battery.
CleanTechnica

Matthew McDowell's lab at Georgia Tech is using aluminum foil to create batteries with higher…

News Listings

The Georgia Tech contingent gather for a group photo at the 2025 Georgia Resiliency Conference.

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Faculty, administration, research fellows, students, collaborators, and Georgia Tech President Emeritus and keynote speaker G. Wayne Clough brought…
Biobased film for packaging

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a biologically based film made from natural ingredients found in plants, mushrooms…
Portrait of Ali Sarhadi.

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Ali Sarhadi and his research team at GT's Climate Risk and Extreme Dynamics Lab are focused on a phenomenon called hurricane-induced compound…
Portrait of Kristin Janacek

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In this newly created BBISS role, Janacek is eager to amplify the Institute’s interdisciplinary research portfolio and foster stronger relationships…
two people walking in flood water

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Flooding can be an existential threat, affecting everything from infrastructure to health. Georgia Tech researchers are developing solutions to…

cover of the 2023-2030 Sustainability Next Plan

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The seed grant program reaches many faculty members from a diverse array of disciplines due to the generous support provided by broad-based…
Omar Isaac Asensio

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Researchers suggest that states should regulate data transparency to improve the reliability of electric vehicles.
Collage of four images taken at the New York Climate Exchange 2025 events with Georgia Tech participants.

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Across five New York Climate Exchange partner events, the Georgia Tech community demonstrated something essential: Georgia Tech bridges research and…
Rampi Ramprasad

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The project addresses one of the world’s most pressing challenges in sustainability: eliminating plastic waste.
Drawdown dashboard

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