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HISD student at Rice environmental issues workshop

Houston high-schoolers get environmental boot camp

June 26, 2023

Rice University’s Center for Environmental Studies, in partnership with the Houston Climate Justice Museum, hosted students from the Houston Independent School District the week of June 12 as part of a summer program focused on Houston environmental justice.

illustration of Rice's one-step catalytic conversion of hydrogen sulfide gas

New catalyst can turn smelly hydrogen sulfide into a cash cow

October 31, 2022

Rice engineers and scientists and collaborators have discovered an efficient, one-step process for converting hydrogen sulfide gas into clean-burning hydrogen fuel.

Bulldozer on trash heap

Sustainability alone cannot fix waste management woes, says expert

August 4, 2021

Both sustainability practices and a circular economy can help maximize the world’s resources, but the ideas are not interchangeable, according to a new brief from Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Rice Carbon Hub

Seven research teams win Carbon Hub funding

March 8, 2021

Carbon Hub, Rice University's zero-emissions research initiative, has awarded seed grants for seven projects that will rapidly advance its vision for transforming the oil and gas sector into a leading provider of both clean hydrogen energy and solid carbon products that can be used in place of materials with large carbon footprints.

Arial View of a refinery

Mitchell Foundation, Baker Institute seek pathways to increase carbon capture

October 23, 2020

The new project will identify policies and actions to facilitate the capture and storage or use of carbon dioxide.

“Jim Blackburn and Isabelle Chapman’s ‘Virus Vigil Day 112: Mottled Duck’

'This Place Called Houston': Jim Blackburn hosts webinar on the city’s past, future

August 31, 2020

Jim Blackburn sees Houston as a perfect reflection of the 20th century, an emerging but disorganized city at the turn of one century that boomed into a diverse economic powerhouse by the next.

An electron microscope image shows E. coli bacteria trapped by wrapped microspheres

Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap

July 20, 2020

A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the free-floating genes in wastewater treatment plants.

Figure depicting the action of an aluminum-palladium antenna-reactor nanocatalyst that harnesses light energy to break chemical bonds in fluorocarbons

Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst

June 22, 2020

Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental pollutants.

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Texas Climate Power Dialogue set for April 7

April 6, 2020

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