Environment and Sustainability

News about UB’s environmental programs and related sustainability initiatives. (see all topics)

Creatures of the night: UB scientists study the lives of slow lorises
1/29/21
Recent research contributes new knowledge about the feeding behavior of the elusive nocturnal primates.
To study and improve tire recycling, New York State turns to UB RENEW Institute
1/28/21
Multidisciplinary UB research group awarded quarter million dollars from DEC to assess and improve tire recycling.
This Great Lakes fish may have evolved to see like its ocean ancestors did
1/20/21
New research could inform fisheries restoration efforts in the Great Lakes.
Twenty UB research stories from 2020
12/28/20
From celebrating the life of a Buffalo civil rights activist to resurrecting a mammoth’s broken genes, here are stories from the work of UB researchers in a difficult year.
UB architecture students add to Silo City’s regenerating landscape
12/23/20
Working with Rigidized Metals, students created a 60-foot trellis that will shape the branches of willow trees to form a canopied gathering space.
UB researchers report quantum-limit-approaching chemical sensing chip
12/17/20
The chip may have uses in food safety monitoring, anti-counterfeiting and other fields where trace chemicals are analyzed.
What are the promises and perils of geoengineering?
11/23/20
UB researcher Holly Buck is co-editor of a new book in which scholars explore the social and ethical dimensions of deliberate efforts to alter Earth’s climate.
UB researchers awarded $1 million grant to advance urban agriculture
11/18/20
Team will work with partners in Buffalo and Minneapolis to grow urban agriculture policy from the ground up.
Construction set to begin on new ground-mounted solar arrays on UB’s North Campus
11/17/20
The solar arrays will contain more than 22,600 solar panels producing over 11 million kilowatt hours in the first year of use.
Coastal Greenland reshaped as ice sheet mass loss accelerates
10/27/20
The changes could have far-reaching impacts on ecosystems and communities, scientists say.

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