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LNG terminal in Lubmin, German

$7.5 million project to curb greenhouse gas emissions

​UC Riverside engineering associate professor Fudong Liu will oversee a multidisciplinary team spanning academia and industry that has been awarded a $6 million federal grant to develop advanced catalytic technology to reduce Earth-warming methane pollution in the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG). With additional financial support from the participating...

By David Danelski | January 14, 2025 | Science / Technology
sewage treatment plant

$1.4 million grant awarded to spur water recycling technology

The University of California system has awarded a $1.4 million grant to UC Riverside chemical and environmental engineering professor Haizhou Liu and a collaborative team from several UC campuses to combat water scarcity by developing strategies to clean and reuse water for agriculture. With California facing climate change and dwindling...

By David Danelski | December 17, 2024 | Science / Technology
computer processing center

AI’s deadly air pollution toll

Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in...

By David Danelski | December 9, 2024 | Science / Technology, Business
hydrogen truck

UCR scientists cut harmful pollution from hydrogen engines

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a low-cost method to significantly reduce nitrogen oxides pollution from hydrogen engines by improving the efficiency of their catalytic converters. As reported in the journal Nature Communications

By David Danelski | October 9, 2024 | Science / Technology
bacteria

NSF grants $22 million for 'extreme microbe' lab collaboration

The National Science Foundation has announced a $22 million grant to establish a “BioFoundry” laboratory for the study of extreme microorganisms with collaborating facilities at UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and Cal Poly Pomona. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea, and Bacteria, or ExFAB, will focus on developing...

By David Danelski | August 20, 2024 | Science / Technology, University
UCR professor Yujie Men

Microbes found to destroy certain ‘forever chemicals’

A UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered that specific bacterial species can cleave the strong fluorine-to-carbon bond certain kinds of “forever chemical" water pollutants, offering promise for low-cost treatments of contaminated drinking water.

By David Danelski | July 17, 2024 | Science / Technology
ion exchange tanks

‘Forever chemical’ discovery can aid drinking water cleanups

A UC Riverside team discovered a chemical process that allows high levels of salt normally found in wastewater from water treatment plants to act as a catalyst that facilitates the breakup of "forever chemical" pollutants. Normally, salt in wastewater impedes the cleanup of chemical pollutants.

By David Danelski | May 30, 2024 | Science / Technology

New ‘forever chemical’ cleanup strategy discovered

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cracks down on insidious “forever chemical” pollution in the environment, military and commercial aviation officials are seeking ways to clean up such pollution from decades of use of fire suppressant foams at military air bases and commercial airports. Fire-suppression foams contain hundreds unhealthful forever...

By David Danelski | May 8, 2024 | Science / Technology
modified plants

Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals

What if your house plant could tell you your water isn’t safe? Scientists are closer to realizing this vision, having engineered a plant to turn beet red in the presence of a banned, toxic pesticide.

By Jules Bernstein | October 23, 2023 | Science / Technology
Forever chemical destruction process concept

Process turns harmful pollutants into harmless substances

UCR scientist discover chemical reaction pathways that destroy certain toxic water pollutants and render them into harmless substances.

By David Danelski | June 13, 2023 | Science / Technology
Yujie Men and Bosen Jin

Biological cleanup discovered for certain “forever chemicals”

University of California, Riverside, chemical and environmental engineering scientists have identified two species of bacteria found in soil that break down a class of stubborn “forever chemicals,” giving hope for low-cost biological cleanup of industrial pollutants. These bacteria destroy a subgroup of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that have...

By David Danelski | May 31, 2023 | Science / Technology
Plants growing in an electrolyzed medium containing acetate that replaces natural photosynthesis

Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine

Scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis to help make food production more energy-efficient here on Earth, and one day possibly on Mars

By Holly Ober | June 23, 2022 | Science / Technology
A person fills a glass with water from a faucet

Microbes can degrade the toughest PFAS

Under anaerobic conditions, common microbial communities can break the ultra-strong carbon-fluorine bond

By Holly Ober | May 23, 2022 | Science / Technology
A person pours water from a pitcher into a glass with a lemon slice in it

PFAS chemicals do not last forever

The use of sulfite and iodide under ultraviolet light can destroy PFAS in water in a few hours

By Holly Ober | May 19, 2022 | Science / Technology
Green algae growing in flasks in a laboratory.

Insights from algae genes unlock mysteries of plant growth and health

The discovery will improve biofuel production from algae and help develop heat-tolerant crops.

By Holly Ober | May 9, 2022 | Science / Technology
An aerial view of a dairy farm in Southern California

How drones can help dairy farms manage methane emissions

Accurate atmospheric measurements directly over their farm can help farmers fight climate change

By Holly Ober | May 6, 2022 | Science / Technology
Sea anemones form a symbiotic relationship with algae

Discovery about coral-algal symbiosis could help coral reefs recover after bleaching events

Algae’s ability to establish symbiosis in coral without photosynthesis could help fight coral bleaching

By Holly Ober | May 2, 2022 | Science / Technology
Emissions coming from factory chimneys

Fighting climate change with carbon capture and utilization technologies

Two UC Riverside experts explain how carbon capture and utilization technologies work, and what needs to improve for them to deliver on their promise

By Holly Ober | March 8, 2022 | Science / Technology
nanoparticles-on-colorful-background

“Magic wand” reveals a colorful nano-world

Novel color photography using a high-efficiency probe can super-focus white light into a 6-nanometer spot for nanoscale color imaging

By Holly Ober | November 23, 2021 | Science / Technology
Watermelon leaves

Yeast and bacteria together biosynthesize plant hormones for weed control

Synthetic strigolactones could also improve nutrient uptake in crops

By Holly Ober | September 17, 2021 | Science / Technology
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