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UCLA nanoscientists develop safer, faster way to remove pollutants from water

UCLA’s Leonard Rome, Meng Wang, Danny Abad, Valerie Kickhoefer and Shaily Mahendra discovered that nanoscale “vaults” containing enzymes were effective at cleaning polluted water
UCLA’s Leonard Rome, Meng Wang, Danny Abad, Valerie Kickhoefer and Shaily Mahendra discovered that nanoscale “vaults” containing enzymes were effective at cleaning polluted water.
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A team of researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA including Shaily Mahendra (UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) has found a new way to use enzymes to remove multiple pollutants from water at once, and minimizes risks to public health and the environment. This technique may be useful to get Los Angeles to 100% water self-sufficiency.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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UCLA, UC experts release report with solutions to slow climate change

A team UCLA researchers joined 50 University of California experts in issuing a new report with solutions to stabilize Earth’s climate this century.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom and for further information please reference:

UCLA faculty voice: California universities launch experiment to go carbon-neutral ‘at scale’ UCLA Newsroom, 27 Oct. 2015

Bending the curve on climate change UCLA Newsroom, 26 Oct. 2016

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Everything you ever wanted to know about fracking

A “Thinking L.A.” event, jointly sponsored by UCLA and Zocálo at the RAND Corporation Tuesday evening, explored the roots of the fervor surrounding fracking in California. Aradhna Tripati (department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences) and Edward Parson (UCLA School of Law and Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment) weigh in on the conversation.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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