Sustainability, climate change and other related issues from USC News.
- The annual event puts a spotlight on USC’s efforts to reduce waste through reuse, recycling and composting.
- USC Price’s Adam Rose, an expert in energy and environmental economics, discusses the link between climate change and this week’s fires.
- USC Viterbi researchers suggest a framework for sharing the Nile’s water and hydropower resources under prolonged drought.
- Experts in sustainability, secondhand styling, composting and textiles share lessons in being conscious consumers of fashion.
- In his Green Entrepreneurship course, USC Marshall’s Jeremy Dann will teach students that sustainability isn’t just necessary; it’s also profitable.
- USC researchers found that certain neighborhood factors were associated with higher levels of PFAS in the blood of Southern California residents, which increases the risk for disease.
- The first 27 of 250 new trees planned for South Los Angeles neighborhoods were planted to provide much-needed shade.
- The method is the first of its kind, reclaiming high-value materials from both the carbon fiber fabric and polymer of a material commonly used in manufacturing.
- A USC study finds boys and girls living closest to the landlocked lake experience more respiratory issues than those farther away.
- With assistance from USC and the federal government, the city of L.A. is cooling local neighborhoods one school at a time by planting trees along sidewalks.