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United Nations University Names New Regional Centre of Expertise in Atlanta

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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Discussion
Mercury ID
602509
Feb 16, 2018

Georgia Tech, Emory and Spelman will lead the new U.N. Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development.

Cold Suns, Warm Exoplanets and Methane Blankets

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Carl Sagan portrait NASA
Mercury ID
599747
Dec 11, 2017

Early Earth probably would have frozen solid, if not for greenhouse gasses, and a new model shows how they could have feasibly arisen.

Smoke from Wildfires Can Have Lasting Climate Impact

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Okefenokee Swamp Wildfire
Mercury ID
591981
May 22, 2017

Researchers have found that carbon particles released into the air from burning trees and other organic matter are much more likely than previously thought to travel to the upper levels of the atmosphere, where they can interfere with rays from the sun.

Rising Temperatures Threaten Stability of Tibetan Alpine Grasslands

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Test plots to study climate change effects on the Tibetan Plateau
Mercury ID
591620
May 10, 2017

A warming climate could affect the stability of alpine grasslands in Asia's Tibetan Plateau.

“First Arrival” Hypothesis in Darwin’s Finches Gets Some Caveats

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Colonies of competing bacteria
Mercury ID
590944
Apr 26, 2017

Researchers have extended the hypothesis for how early arriving species gain an ecosystem advantage through adaptive radiation.

Brake Dust May Cause More Problems Than Blackened Wheel Covers

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Traffic in Atlanta
Mercury ID
588204
Mar 02, 2017

Though tailpipe emissions could fall in the years ahead as more zero-emission vehicles hit the streets, one major source of highway air pollution shows no signs of abating: brake and tire dust.

Climate Change: Potentially Good News on Methane and Peat Carbon

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SPRUCE climate change experiment enclosure exterior
Mercury ID
584959
Dec 13, 2016

Soil carbon stored in peat bogs may not convert to greenhouse gasses in the face of global warming.

ISyE’s Valerie Thomas and Team Win Judges’ Choice Award from MIT’S Climate CoLab

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Valerie Thomas
Mercury ID
581862
Sep 29, 2016

Suriya Arulselvan (MSCE 2015) and Valerie Thomas, a professor in Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), have been awarded the Judges’ Choice Award for the 2016 Aviation contest from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol

Optimization Technique Identifies Cost-Effective Biodiversity Corridors

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Grizzly Bear
Mercury ID
581780
Sep 27, 2016

A new optimization technique could help conservation biologists choose the most cost-effective ways of connecting isolated populations of rare, threatened and endangered species living in protected areas.

Optimization Technique Identifies Cost-Effective Biodiversity Corridors

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Grizzly Bear
Mercury ID
581780
Sep 27, 2016

A new optimization technique could help conservation biologists choose the most cost-effective ways of connecting isolated populations of rare, threatened and endangered species living in protected areas.

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