Environment and Sustainability

News about UB’s environmental programs and related sustainability initiatives. (see all topics)

UB researchers release major U.N. report on food systems planning
2/5/21
Report prepared in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization is among the first to detail strategies for local government planners in low- and middle-income countries.
Scientists ask: Can nanotech and microbes partner to destroy PFAS?
2/3/21
Researchers will use analytical and computational techniques to understand, in detail, how PFAS degrade at each step of the proposed treatment process.
Creatures of the night: UB scientists study the lives of slow lorises
1/29/21
Recent research contributes new knowledge about the feeding behavior of the elusive nocturnal primates.
To study and improve tire recycling, New York State turns to UB RENEW Institute
1/28/21
Multidisciplinary UB research group awarded quarter million dollars from DEC to assess and improve tire recycling.
This Great Lakes fish may have evolved to see like its ocean ancestors did
1/20/21
New research could inform fisheries restoration efforts in the Great Lakes.
Twenty UB research stories from 2020
12/28/20
From celebrating the life of a Buffalo civil rights activist to resurrecting a mammoth’s broken genes, here are stories from the work of UB researchers in a difficult year.
UB architecture students add to Silo City’s regenerating landscape
12/23/20
Working with Rigidized Metals, students created a 60-foot trellis that will shape the branches of willow trees to form a canopied gathering space.
UB researchers report quantum-limit-approaching chemical sensing chip
12/17/20
The chip may have uses in food safety monitoring, anti-counterfeiting and other fields where trace chemicals are analyzed.
What are the promises and perils of geoengineering?
11/23/20
UB researcher Holly Buck is co-editor of a new book in which scholars explore the social and ethical dimensions of deliberate efforts to alter Earth’s climate.
UB researchers awarded $1 million grant to advance urban agriculture
11/18/20
Team will work with partners in Buffalo and Minneapolis to grow urban agriculture policy from the ground up.

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