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UChicago professor Tiffany Shaw co-authored an analysis on the developments in climate science published in Nature this month.

Last month, the "Doomsday Clock" was moved up to 89 seconds, the closest the world has ever been to total annihilation. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, based at the University of Chicago, uses the clock as a metaphor to show how...

The coalition of environmental advocacy groups, including the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic, that has been urging the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to place stricter requirements on an East Chicago waste processor lauded the agency for changes...

In a quest to slow down sea level rise, a few researchers are sketching out massive glacial engineering projects. The “key benefit of glacial geoengineering is that you can do this in a very limited geographic area and get big...

A new project aims to explore the use of Cold Geothermal Underground Thermal Energy Storage (Cold UTES) technology to cool data centers. The project, led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), includes collaborators from the University of Chicago.

Environmental law attorney Mark Templeton says his students provide ample reasons to be optimistic about the legal system’s ability to take on the challenges the future will present.

UChicago Law's Mark Templeton says Tradebe Treatment and Recycling, LLC has had hundreds of permit violations.

The nearly four-decade-old hunk of frozen freshwater is still surprising scientists as it meanders through the ocean.

As the planet gets hotter and hotter, special clothes can help those who work outside in extreme temperatures. But those workers also need government protections.

A paper co-authored by UChicago's Edwin Kite suggests that pumping engineered dust into the atmosphere could warm Mars to the point where much of the water ice that lies beneath its surface would melt, at least in the Martian summer.