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The Student Government Association's Sustainability Committee is offering up to $10,000 for student led-projects that offer feasible, innovative ideas for improving Georgia Tech’s sustainability efforts.

On Sept. 14, Ajeet Rohatgi, Regents’ Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named one of the 19 funding recipients in the Photovoltaics Research and Development Program as part of the U.S. DoE SunShot Initiative.

Although construction won’t begin until the spring semester of 2017, students have been working since 2015 to design the Solar Home at Georgia Tech that will be entered in the next Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.

Extreme weather conditions associated with climate change may extend the ozone season in the Southeastern United States.

While global warming shrinks ice caps, it's expanding “oxygen minimum zones,” where newly discovered bacteria are depleting waters of nitrogen, a nutrient essential to life. This could be creating imbalances.

Soaking certain carbon fiber composites in alcohol enables the pieces to be recycled

The 2014-2015 marine heatwave – often referred to as the “warm blob” – had its origins in weather patterns that started in late 2013.

A team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere.

Improved "climate connectivity" will be needed by species in the Eastern United States.

A high-resolution model explains how soil erosion can affect carbon cycles