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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech joined a global research team that tracked more than 100 species and identified ocean hotspots critical for protecting threatened marine megafauna that fall beyond current conservation zones. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech succeeded in the 2025 Virginias ASCE Student Symposium at WVU Tech, winning first place in nearly every competition, including surveying, sustainability, technical paper, concrete canoe, and steel bridge. The civil and environmental engineering undergraduate students now prepare to compete on the national stage. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ New published research from Virginia Tech and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institution finds that electric vehicles generally produce less non-exhaust emissions compared with gasoline-powered vehicles. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Salt pollution from road deicing salts threatens freshwater ecosystems and urban green infrastructure. Megan Rippy&#39;s research on salt-tolerant plants like cattails highlights their potential role in mitigating this pollution, though broader strategies are essential for long-term solutions. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Aging infrastructure, political instability, climate change, and human decisions created conditions for the catastrophic flood disaster in Libya in 2023, according to a new Virginia Tech-led study published in Nature Portfolio Journal Natural Hazards. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Just 16 short months ago, Carrie Fearer stepped onto Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus, ready to make her mark. Now, she’s not just a faculty member in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, but also a driving force in the College of Natural Resources and Environment’s conservation efforts. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Two College of Natural Resources and Environment students attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As a student in Nepal, Kalpana Giri discovered a disconnect between academic understanding and people’s lived experiences around forests. In a public discussion on Nov. 14, Giri, a senior manager at the World Resources Institute, will examine the nuances of integrating the human dimension into natural resource management. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The project, dubbed Project CARDINAL, would prevent an estimated 50 million metric tons of carbon from going into the atmosphere in the next three decades. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Five faculty members from three departments, one school, and three colleges have been selected for the 2024-25 cohort, receiving up to $10,000 each to develop  research proposals. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 6 inches of sea level rise by 2050, according to recent analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team, which includes Virginia Tech researchers.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A research team led by Anamaria Bukvic in the Department of Geography received a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to evaluate how efforts to adapt to climate change affects population mobility in coastal areas in the Indo-Pacific. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Faculty in the College of Natural Resources and Environment have received $1.79 million from the National Science Foundation for an interdisciplinary research project that will examine the dynamics of socio-environmental factors impacting coastal fisheries. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This year, the Virginia Tech earned its highest score ever through universitywide collaboration focused on key sustainability initiatives.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Barney discusses the impact of invasive species on native species, the challenges of managing them, and some practical steps people can take to prevent their spread. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ J.E. “Jeb” Barrett, professor of biological sciences, and his colleagues have reported findings indicating that a March 2022 “weather whiplash” led to record-high death rates for invertebrate organisms that count on surviving winter in an “inactive freeze-dried state.”   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce and NOAA have recommended $1.97 million for a project in Virginia to make the state’s coast more resilient to climate change and other coastal hazards.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Hosein Foroutan, associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, seeks to illuminate overlooked climate impacts through two projects examining mineral dust and soil nitrous oxide.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Eranga Galappaththi has dedicated more than 10 years to studying the social dimensions of human-nature systems, particularly within 11 Indigenous communities in Sri Lanka and the Canadian Arctic, examining their responses to various natural and human-made problems. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Along with his Argentinean colleagues, Assistant Professor Michael Robert is studying the relationship between climate change and the rise of dengue in temperate regions. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rebekah Slabach ’16 is making an impact in the field of agriculture as the new associate director for the Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture. Slabach, a second-generation Hokie, earned dual bachelor&#39;s degrees in agricultural sciences and agricultural and applied economics. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Geologic carbon sequestration is the process of permanently storing carbon dioxide thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface. Pollyea explained what types of rock this is currently known to work with, the efforts he and his colleagues are taking to expand this to other geologic regions, and the potential impact that could have for the environment and economics.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The YMCA at Virginia Tech program has diverted more than 10 tons of furniture and accessories from the waste stream since 2005. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation supports soil health across the commonwealth through a variety of efforts. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Abigail Lewis, the 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Student for the College of Science, has carved out a place where she can make a difference in the connected crises of climate change: freshwater management. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ph.D. student Samuel Silknetter and Associate Professor Meryl Mims recently led a team that explored the influence the spatial extent of research – the geographical coverage of data collected – has on evaluating the sensitivity of fish species to climate change. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rick Woychik will present federal strategies to reduce the health threats of climate change in the closing Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture of the 2023-2024 season – Planning the Future of Environmental Health Sciences – at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC in Roanoke. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ An interdisciplinary research team tested ChatGPTs accuracy talking about three climate change-related hazards – tropical storms, floods, and droughts – in 191 countries.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Bodnar studies ancient droplets of fluid trapped within minerals from deep under the Earth and from outer space. His findings have shed light on future volcanic eruptions, life on other planets, and the location of deposits of “critical minerals,” identified as vital to our economic future and national security. For these accomplishments and more, Bodnar will be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences on April 26. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Xiao studies the interactions between life and Earth, especially at a critical point in geologic history when animals first emerged on the scene. Among his many accomplishments, Xiao discovered the earliest known evidence of a moving animal. On April 26, he will be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Center for International Research, Education, and Development is partnering with the international nongovernmental organization FHI 360 on a U.S. State Department-funded project to strengthen the resilience of Tunisian farmers, fishers, and their communities in the face of climate change. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A third of China’s urban population at risk of city sinking, according to new satellite data. In an invited article for the journal Science, Manoochehr Shirzaei discusses how this phenomenon points to a global problem: Land is sinking everywhere.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A team of researchers led by Grace O’Malley, Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, and Gabrielle Ripa, Ph.D. student in plant and environmental sciences, have discovered that the silent growth of non-native invasive plants can affect the soundscape of an ecosystem. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alba Yerro-Colom is developing a numerical framework to study how different rainfall patterns affect the interaction between water, roots, and soil during a landslide. ]]></description>
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        <title>New center showcases Virginia Tech&#39;s strengths in global sustainability</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Cayelan Carey and Quinn Thomas, co-directors of the Virginia Tech Center for Ecosystem Forecasting, are striving to stay ahead of ecological hazards and broadly extending their efforts to encompass partners both home and abroad.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Shirzaei discusses the importance of understanding and measuring sinking land, commonly called subsidence. He shared insights about the use of satellite data in creating high resolution maps, how land subsidence fits into the overall picture of climate change, and how he hopes the information is used by localities.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The five-year grant will support three Virginia Tech researchers working to help better predict the future of ecosystems. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The $1 million grant to the Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center aims to increase resiliency to short-term droughts, showcase cover crops, and increase farm efficiencies.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute recently created a nationwide multi-train simulation software, called NeTrainSim, to show the impacts of a countrywide shift away from diesel.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers have teamed up with four other universities to introduce the climate-hardy, high-nutrition faba bean as a viable cash and cover crop. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech joins the University of Virginia and Old Dominion University to help communities bolster their climate resiliency by anticipating threats, reducing community vulnerabilities, and respond to and recover from hazardous events and chronic stresses. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sherif Abdelaziz is part of a PIONEER project that will do laboratory tests in collaboration with researchers in Scotland to keep coastal areas safe from flooding.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Human actions are irreversible transforming the geophysical and ecological systems of the planet causing complex societal challenges. A civil and environmental engineering professor is seeking a way to address those challenges.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Carolina Martinez-Gutierrez and Frank Aylward have created a genetic tree that establishes a timeline for when 13 clades – the lineages of bacteria and archaea – colonized in the ocean.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ One Health is the overarching concept that human, animal, and environmental health are inextricably linked and that professionals within the three realms should work together toward research findings and clinical applications that can improve the health in all three areas.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Undergraduates Brandon Tapia and Lucy Waite have earned spots as Astronaut Scholars. The annual honor recognizes exceptional students in science, technology, engineering, and math for initiative, creativity, and excellence in their chosen fields. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The laboratory is helping faculty, staff, and students continue efforts to integrate Virginia Tech&#39;s Climate Action Commitment into the university’s educational mission and engage more students in sustainability-focused learning opportunities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Doctoral student Paige Van de Vuurst is the lead author of research recently published in the Ecography journal that predicts that vampire bats — currently only found in Mexico and Central and South America — are on the move, with the United States being a viable home in 27 years.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Graduates of the Interfaces of Global Change Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program, which is celebrating its 10th year, return to the Blacksburg campus to share their experiences and offer advice to current students in the program. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Responsible for the care of Virginia Tech&#39;s urban forest is the Division of Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities’ urban forestry team – four individuals with expertise in arboriculture and urban forestry who strive to cultivate a low-risk, sustainable, resilient, and attractive urban forest that current and future generations of Hokies can enjoy.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Lightweight, strong, electrically conductive, and antimicrobial — graphene is a prime candidate for a host of applications. Now, a Virginia Tech team is making the material from a surprising source. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech Transportation Institute researchers and their partners put an autonomous Ford F-150 through a series of driving scenarios related to public safety on the Interstate 395 express lanes in Arlington.  ]]></description>
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