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LISTEN: Free Range Podcast and Life as an EPA Regional Administrator

On this episode of Free Range, sponsored by the Environmental Institute, host Michael Livermore is joined by Adam Ortiz, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Arctic Cities Need Unique Solutions to Climate Change. UVA is Working on Some.

A team supported by UVA’s Environmental Institute has been working with community members in the Arctic to find solutions to dangerous infrastructure challenges caused by a changing climate.
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UVA Researchers Awarded Funds to Advance Clean Energy Innovations

UVA researchers, based on a project seed funded by the Environmental Institute, expand work on challenges associated with lithium recovery during battery recycling.

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White House Recruits UVA's Environmental Institute's Associate Director

Andrés Clarens, whose research focuses on understanding decarbonization of infrastructure systems, will be an assistant director of the White House’s Office of Science Technology Policy .
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Researchers Find That Better Sharing of New “Eco-Innovations” Can Combat Rising Climate Despair

Climate despair is emerging as a psychosocial threat. But UVA researchers have found a potential source of hope that is underutilized.
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UVA Professors Will Turn the Movement of Rivers into Music

Two Environmental Institute affiliates are collaborating on a project that will translate the movement of rivers into music.
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Navigating Climate Challenges: UVA Engineers and Environmental Scientists Aid Virginia’s Eastern Shore

As part of UVA's Environmental Institute , professors Venkat Lashmi and Jonathan Goodall lead UVA climate resilience projects like the Climate Equity Atlas.
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Documenting Tangier’s Watermen: Student Project Headed for Library of Congress

A project funded through EI's Environmental Futures Fellows program documents the working landscape of watermen and the locations of their crab shanties.
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Does Climate Change Affect Democracy? Panelists Discussed Health Burdens and Migration Trends

As part of the Karsh Institute of Democracy’s multi-day event, Democracy360, the University of Virginia’s Environmental Institute convened experts to discuss two climate change challenges that deeply impact a democratic...
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The Colorado River Basin Needs New Water Management Solutions. UVA Researchers Are Trying to Help.

Julianne Quinn, an assistant professor at UVA’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Peter Debaere, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, are leading a project to help...
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Seagrass Restoration Renews Fish and Biodiversity at Astonishing Rates

Amid fish declines worldwide, in part due to habitat loss, UVA researchers are tracking the continued success of undersea meadow restoration efforts.
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Can Voice Training Solve Climate Challenges? UVA Researchers are Willing to Try

UVA’s Environmental Institute is providing both funding and expertise to help a Virginia region explore a transition to renewable energy, while also assisting women in India with protecting their communities...
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With UVA Discovery, We May Be One Good Solution Closer to Solving Climate Change

Seagrass researchers assemble a rig to extract sediment cores. The sampling project, just off the Eastern Shore on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Delmarva Peninsula, began in the summer...