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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. When people are at home watching a documentary about how climate change affects the world, they often say, ‘Oh man, that sucks, but I can’t do anything about it.’

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Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

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—Connie Woodhouse, a professor at the University of Arizona and a study co-author. —Edward Cook, a dendochronologist at Columbia University. It’s quite compelling from the available tree-ring data that the second century experienced an extraordinarily severe drought, highly persistent, and very intense.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones.

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Study finds wind concentrates pollutants with unexpected order in an urban environment

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The paper by researchers from Arizona State University and Notre Dame is published in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) journal Physics of Fluids. —Wenbo Tang of Arizona State University, lead author. The unexpected finding is coherent patterns in fluid flows were thought to have no real analog in nature.

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Study finds advanced cellulosic biofuels show real promise for replacing some fossil fuels

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A new study led by Colorado State University predicts significant climate benefits stemming from the use of advanced biofuel technologies. Ikenberry Chair Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois. The paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Field, Tom L.

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Natural EV capitalism

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Over three decades later, Martinson reinvented himself, earning an Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. This led to involvement with EV (electric vehicle) advocacy and his present activities as a sustainability blogger and influencer in EV adoption. “My

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Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O

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That’s three times the amount estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. —Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper.