Environment, climate & sustainability
Advance knowledge, innovation and stewardship to help communities protect and sustain the natural systems we all share.
Empowering a healthier future
Environment, climate and sustainability initiatives connect research, teaching and public service. Through discovery, collaboration and student opportunity, Carolina helps communities shape practical solutions.
Flowing Together: Restoring NC’s Drinking Water
An interdisciplinary group of UNC-Chapel Hill scientists and engineers are deploying and evaluating technologies that filter “forever chemicals” linked to a range of health problems from our drinking water.
Ask a Professor: Jason Surratt on potential air pollution from harmful algal blooms
The environmental sciences and engineering professor is working to understand how organic compounds emitted into the atmosphere get transformed as other air toxins.
A royal first year
Carolina students spent a month in the Galapagos Islands, participating in cross-disciplinary research and experience life alongside island residents thanks to a program funded by a gift from the Royal Caribbean Group.
Heat mapping for change
Katherine Burley Farr, a doctoral student in the public policy department, studies how rising heat affects health and safety in North Carolina.
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