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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.

Climate Change May Extend Ozone Season in the Southeastern U.S.

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Atlanta forest
Mercury ID
565511
Aug 22, 2016

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

Eastern U.S. Needs “Connectivity” to Help Species Escape Climate Change

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Jenny McGuire
Mercury ID
544091
Jun 13, 2016

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

High-Resolution Model Explains Role of Soil Erosion in Carbon Budgets

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Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory
Mercury ID
542751
Jun 07, 2016

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

Polluted Dust Can Impact Ocean Life Thousands of Miles Away, Study Says

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Taka Ito
Mercury ID
536351
May 16, 2016

A new modeling study conducted by researchers in Georgia Tech shows that for decades, air pollution drifting from East Asia out over the world’s largest ocean has contributed to oxygen levels falling in tropical waters thousands of miles away.

Some Climate Change Impacts May Appear Sooner than Expected

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Buildings in Marshall Islands
Mercury ID
476651
Dec 07, 2015

Some impacts of global climate change will appear much sooner than others.

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