Sustainable Environment & Climate

Protecting our planet

Sustainable Environment & Climate

Mines researchers are studying our climate and environment, and using our expertise to find solutions that protect our people and our planet. Environmental sustainability is part of everything we do – from projects that focus on cleaning our water, soil, and air to research that drives cleaner energy production, resource extraction, and manufacturing practices. Explore our Environment research by focus area:

Clean & Sustainable Water Systems

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Clean & Sustainable Water Systems

Exploring new ways to provide clean and affordable water in the context of climate change and increasing demands on water resources.

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Climate-Resilient Water Management

Coastal Groundwater Systems

Contaminant Fate & Transport

Direct Potable Water Reuse

Energy-Water Nexus

Environmental Policy

Environmental Toxicology

Groundwater Contamination

Human Health Risk Assessment

Hydrogeological Systems

Hydrology

Industrial Water Treatment & Reuse

Integrated Water Resource Management

Near-Surface Geophysics

Per- & Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Snowpack & Runoff Dynamics

Subsurface Fluid Dynamics

Water Quality Monitoring

Water Reuse & Recycling

Water Treatment Technologies

Watershed Management

Soil Health & Human Wellness

Developing novel methods to identify and remediate contaminants in soils and groundwater that are impacting human health.

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Contaminant Fate & Transport

Environmental Microbiology

Environmental Policy

Environmental Toxicology

Groundwater Contamination

Human Health Risk Assessment

Nuclear Remediation

Per- & Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Soil Remediation Technologies

Soil-Plant Interactions

Sustainable Remediation Practices

Water Quality Monitoring

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Soil Health & Human Wellness

Carbon Management & Air Quality

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Carbon Management & Air Quality

Improving air quality and combating climate change by leveraging technology solutions to capture and minimize carbon in the atmosphere.

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Air Quality Monitoring

Atmospheric Modeling & Forecasting

Carbon Capture & Storage

Carbon Neutral & Negative Construction Materials

Carbon Utilization

Decarbonization Strategies

Decarbonizing Cement & Concrete

Decarbonizing Steel Manufacturing

Decarbonizing Transportation

Direct Air Carbon Capture

Energy Efficiency

Energy Transition

Fugitive Emission & Leak Detection

Industrial Emissions Monitoring & Control

Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy

Low- and Zero-Emission Vehicles

Methane Emission Reduction

Reducing Emissions

Renewable Energy

Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future

Promoting sustainability by engineering solutions that center on reducing waste and increasing efficiency.

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Advanced Recycling Technologies

Advanced Resource Recovery

Carbon Capture & Storage

Carbon Utilization

Circular Economy

Clean Technology Innovation

Decarbonization Strategies

Electrical Grid Resilience

Energy Efficiency

Energy Systems Optimization

Energy Transition

Integrated Water Resource Management

Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy

Low- and Zero-Emission Vehicles

Process Optimization

Product Lifecycle & Sustainable Design

Reducing Emissions

Renewable & Alternative Energy Integration

Resilient Building Design

Resilient Infrastructure

Resource & Sustainability Policy

Socially Responsible Engineering

Sustainable Manufacturing & Processes

Sustainable Remediation Practices

Waste Minimization

Waste to Resource

Water Reuse & Recycling

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Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future

Environmental & Climate Data Science

Projection of data on a globe.

Environmental & Climate Data Science

Harnessing data and computing power to understand environmental processes and tackle climate challenges.

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Atmospheric Modeling & Forecasting

Atmospheric Science

Climate Informatics

Climate Systems Interactions

Climate Variability

Data-Driven Energy Solutions

Earth Observation Data & Analysis

Earth System Modeling & Prediction

Environmental Modeling

Environmental Monitoring

Fugitive Emission & Leak Detection

Geophysical Modeling

Geospatial Data Analysis & Mapping

High Performance Computing

Modeling & Simulation

Natural Hazard Prediction & Mitigation

Predictive Modeling

Uncertainty Quantification

Global Climate System

Understanding the physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the global climate system.

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Atmospheric Modeling & Forecasting

Atmospheric Science

Climate Resilience

Climate Systems Interactions

Climate Variability

Climate-Resilient Water Management

Earth System Modeling & Prediction

Hydrogeological Systems

Hydrology

Natural Hazard Prediction & Mitigation

Paleoclimatology

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Global Climate System

Environment, Climate & Society

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Environment, Climate & Society

Studying the connections and interactions that influence how society relates to the environment and climate.

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Climate Adaptation

Climate Resilience

Climate Variability

Climate-Resilient Water Management

Community Development

Community Engagement

Community-Based Research

Convergent Research

Electrical Grid Resilience

Energy & Society

Engineering & Social Justice

Environmental Impacts of Energy

Environmental Justice

Environmental Policy

Human Dimensions of Environment & Climate Changes

Natural Hazard Prediction & Mitigation

Regulatory Policy

Resource & Sustainability Policy

Risk Communication

Socially Responsible Engineering

Supply Chain Resilience

Sustainable Resource Management