Cement is responsible for 8 percent of the world's carbon emissions. Some building companies provide ways to mitigate those emissions to try to reach "net zero" projects, so that their impact is offset.
But what if the concrete itself could not only be created more...
Environmental Research
MERCED, Calif. — A $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support a five-year investigation by University of California, Merced, researchers into environmental changes in marine...
From the white, sugary sands of Hawaii to the white, powdery slopes of the Sierra Nevada, Natural Sciences Professor Stephen Hart has his eye on climate change.
For the past two years, the professor...
MERCED, Calif. — People talk about climate change all the time.
But researchers at the University of California, Merced, are working to find out exactly how it will affect the millions of people who...
Campus diners who take out their meals are helping save the environment one container at a time.
UC Merced is the first campus west of the Mississippi to use the new OZZI container-recycling system,...
MERCED, Calif. — Researchers at UC Merced are taking an important step toward a statewide water-monitoring system by installing wireless sensors across the American River basin.
The system, which is...
There’s a reason the UC Merced plasma lab is isolated behind a locking fence near the entrance to campus.
There’s some serious heat being produced down there.
Engineering professors Gerardo Diaz,...
They traveled nearly 20 hours by plane and bus across 5,700 miles to spend three weeks in the Central Valley sun.
Fifteen engineering students from Dankook University in Yongin, Gyeonggi, South Korea...
Making an entire campus sustainable takes a lot of planning, education and work.
But those efforts are what earned two of UC Merced’s sustainability leaders systemwide recognition.
Former Director of...
At a time when Californians are dismayed about closures of state parks, and protected lands around the globe are under increasing stress from reduced government resources, an innovative institute is...
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