College of Sciences | Sustainability at Georgia Tech

Did Earth’s Early Rise in Oxygen Support The Evolution of Multicellular Life — or Suppress It?

Artist rendering of early Earth (Photo credit: NASA)

May 14, 2021

A new study is taking the air out of a hypothesis linking early Earth’s oxygenation to larger, more complex organisms. Georgia Tech researchers report a more complex effect

Balancing Act of Hurricane Season Sways With Climate Change

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672670

Jul 06, 2023

Forecasts call for a near-normal hurricane season, but climate change could make future seasons more unpredictable than ever before.

Digging Into Greenland Ice: Unraveling Mysteries in Earth's Harshest Environments

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The team snowmobiling to a remote field site.

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672274

Nov 09, 2023

Rachel Moore spent nearly 50 days in one of the most remote places on Earth, collecting ice cores; the research has implications for climate change predictions and searching for signs of life on icy worlds.

Study Reveals Wintertime Formation of Large Pollution Particles in China’s Skies

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Beijing pollution (Photo Kevin Dooley, Creative Commons)

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672402

Nov 16, 2023

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences researchers find dangerous sulfates are formed, and their particles get bigger, within the plumes of pollution belching from coal-fired power plants.

Machine Learning Could be Key to Early Leakage Detection in Underground Carbon Storage Sites

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672627

Dec 20, 2023

The feasibility study by Georgia Tech researchers explores using conditional normalizing flows (CNFs) to convert seismic data points into usable information and observable images. This potential ability could make monitoring underground storage sites more

NSF RAPID Response to Earthquakes in Turkey

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671243

Jul 28, 2023

Zhigang Peng and graduate students Phuc Mach and Chang Ding are using small seismic sensors to better understand just how, why, and when certain earthquakes are occurring.

New Georgia Tech Environmental Science Degree Launches

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Earth (Credit NASA/Joshua Stevens)

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670972

Jun 13, 2023

The interdisciplinary Environmental Science (ENVS) degree program, developed by faculty in the Schools of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Biological Sciences, is now enrolling students interested in a wide variety of environment-related careers.

Deep Dive Into Shark Ecology Provides Path to Conservation

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Cameron Perry swims alongside a whale shark on a Georgia Aquarium expedition off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Submitted photo.

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677479

Jul 24, 2025

Experts say that more accurate depictions of sharks can help protect them and highlight their role in global ecosystems.

Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?

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678307

Oct 09, 2025

Georgia Tech expert Zachary Handlos joins a growing conversation about whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale adequately reflects the full range of hurricane hazards in a changing climate.

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