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Northwestern faculty, staff and students are collaborating across disciplines to build a more sustainable future through climate and energy transition and the development of resilient communities

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Cleaning up lakes and oceans

April 20, 2022

The engineering professors are available to speak on impacts of oil spills and forms of “silent pollution,” scaling environmental efforts and their sponge-based platform.

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Video credit: NorthwesternU Northwestern University engineering professor Vinayak Dravid discusses the sponge that can collect oil, phosphates and now microplastics from polluted waters.

Method efficiently breaks down plastic bottles into component parts

April 12, 2022

Researchers first to demonstrate use of metal-organic frameworks to degrade plastics

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Investing in new water filtration membranes is worth it

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September 6, 2022

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‘Forever chemicals’ destroyed by simple new method

August 18, 2022

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Climate-resilient breadfruit might be the food of the future

August 17, 2022

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Model developed to predict landslides along wildfire burn scars

July 27, 2022

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Northwestern establishes new fossil fuel investment guidelines

June 23, 2022

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Photosynthesis-inspired process makes commodity chemicals

June 9, 2022

Northwestern recognized by EPA as a sustainability leader

May 5, 2022

University receives the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award for the third year in a row

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We can make lawn grass greener, says plant biologist

April 25, 2022

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