Rice improves catalyst that destroys ‘forever chemicals’ with sunlight
Rice chemical engineers have improved their light-powered catalyst for destroying forever chemical PFOA.
Rice improves catalyst that destroys ‘forever chemicals’ with sunlight
Rice chemical engineers have improved their light-powered catalyst for destroying forever chemical PFOA.
Agriculture emissions pose risks to health and climate
Rice researchers find the economic cost of emissions from agriculture and their risks to populations through air pollution and climate change.
Getting ourselves back to the garden
A prairie garden at Rice University demonstrates the benefits of replacing manicured lawns with resilient plants and grasses that need little maintenance and help protect the environment.
Rice Architecture faculty among New York’s finest
Rice Architecture's Wortham Fellows are among recipients of this year's Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects.
Rice process aims to strip ammonia from wastewater
Engineers develop a high-performance nanowire catalyst that pulls ammonia and solid ammonia (fertilizer) from nitrate in wastewater.
Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide
Rice University chemists treat waste plastic to absorb carbon dioxide from flue gas streams more efficiently than current processes.
Humanities hosts daylong visit for high schoolers hoping to study the environment
These students picked Rice for a reason
Gas flares tied to premature deaths
Rice engineers suggest that flaring of natural gas at oil and gas fields in the United States, primarily in North Dakota and Texas, contributed to dozens of premature deaths in 2019.
Environmental champions win Rice grants
The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.
Rare earth elements await in waste
Rice University scientists applied their flash Joule heating process to coal fly ash and other toxic waste to safely extract rare earth elements essential to modern electronics and green technologies.
Machine learning fine-tunes flash graphene
Rice University scientists are using machine learning techniques to streamline the process of synthesizing graphene from waste through flash Joule heating.
Rice conference on natural disasters draws international panelists, attendees
The Nov. 19-20 conference focused on narratives around natural catastrophes in the Americas and Circum-Caribbean
Matthew Tejada to talk environmental justice and humanism Oct. 26
Top-ranking EPA official headlines this semester’s Walter Isle Lecture
Urban mining for metals flashes electronic trash into treasure
Flash Joule heating recovers valuable and toxic metals from electronic waste. The process allows for “urban mining” of resources that could be a win for the environment as well as for manufacturers.
Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study
Sylvia Dee, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, wins an early-career fellowship to pursue Gulf of Mexico research.