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The University of Chicago positioned itself as a leader in this emergent field — known as geoengineering — after recruiting renowned physicist David Keith to build out a climate engineering program with 10 tenure-track faculty hires and several young researchers.

Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a EPIC study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths.

The United States has stored up a lot of natural gas this year. Last winter was the warmest on record in the contiguous 48 states, leaving the country with plenty of natural gas that wasn’t used to heat homes. And while electricity demand...

A team from the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion in the US has created the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery.

California farmers are willing to cut back on groundwater usage when their local governments start charging for this formerly free resource, new research has found.

David Keith, who founded the DAC business Carbon Engineering, says that other methods of carbon removal, such as boosting the carbon storage capacity of soils or ocean waters, hold at least as much promise. “Direct air capture is one of many different carbon...

A study conducted by researchers at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago reveals that when farmers in India are given highly accurate monsoon forecasts not typically available to them, they make better investment decisions, as they change...

EPIC's Fiona Burlig and Amir Jina, along with other University of Chicago coauthors -- Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane and Harshil Sahai -- studied how farmers across 250 villages in India’s Telangana state changed their behaviours when given highly-accurate forecasts (at...

“It’s not like, will deployment happen?” Founding Faculty Director of the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative David Keith says, referring to certain kinds of geoengineering. “Deployment is happening.”

“There are undoubtedly a series of procurement and legal issues that would have to be worked out,” said Michael Greenstone, an economist at the University of Chicago who helped the Obama administration to develop the social cost of carbon. “The...