News Tip: Experts Available to Comment on Infrastructure Legislation
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Topic Energy & Environment
Duke scholars are exploring new frontiers in such areas as renewable energy, sustainable food and carbon capture to forge a more sustainable relationship between humanity and the global environment.
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If Endangered Primates Disappear, So Will Their Parasites. That’s Actually a Problem
The extinction crisis looming for monkeys, apes and their kin could have even greater ripple effects on the tiny underappreciated species that set up camp in their bodies.
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U.S. Faces 'Critical Time' for Climate Change Action
Duke experts in energy, economics and the environment brief media on bills before Congress
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News Tip: Experts Available to Comment on Biden’s Solar Plan
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News Tip: Experts Available to Comment on Latest Climate Report From IPCC
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Novel Renewable Natural Gas Partnership Will Move Duke Toward Carbon Neutrality
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Keeping a Closer Eye on Seabirds with Drones and Artificial Intelligence
Using drones and artificial intelligence to monitor large colonies of seabirds can be as effective as traditional on-the-ground methods
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Experts Discuss Hurdles, Benefits of Electric Vehicles
Duke professors discuss benefits, challenges during media briefing
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Childhood Air Pollution Exposure Linked to Poor Mental Health at Age 18
As a risk factor, it is equivalent to lead exposure
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Warming Seas Might Also Look Less Colorful to Some Fish. Here’s Why it Matters.
As oceans warm due to climate change, some fish are fleeing to greater depths in search of cooler waters. Once there they may be faced with another challenge: how to make sense of a dim world drained of color.
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Celebrate Earth Day with 12 Stories About the Environment
Duke projects that protect the Earth and the environment
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Duke University Study Finds More Sin in the Rain
Features research by recent Duke Ph.D. graduate Jonathan Moreno-Medina
Expert: How Proposals to Restrict Fossil Fuel Ads in the US Might Overcome First Amendment Protections
Quotes Sarah Ludington, director of Duke Law’s First Amendment Clinic
Climate Researchers Shed Light on Animal Extinctions in Africa and Arabia Peninsula
Features a study based largely on a collection of fossils housed at the Duke Lemur Center Division of Fossil Primates
‘This Is Our Last Chance’: Biden Urged to Act as Climate Agenda Hangs by a Thread
Quotes Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment
Will Offshore Wind Threaten Wildlife? A Duke-Led Team Is Working to Find Out
Quotes Doug Nowacek, a Duke professor of conservation technology who is the project’s primary investigator
‘On Earth as It Is in Heaven’: Embracing Human Creatureliness in a Climate Change World
Commentary by Norman Wirzba, a professor of Christian theology at Duke Divinity School
New Observatory to Probe the Mysteries of Earth’s ‘Forgotten’ Subsoil
Features comments by Daniel Richter, a soil scientist at Duke whose research will benefit from the new facility
Want to Regain Young People’s Trust? Start Treating the Earth, and Life, as Sacred
Commentary by professor Norman Wirzba, the author, most recently, of “This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World”
China’s Wildlife Food Ban Is Vital for Public Health and Threatened Species. What Must Happen Next?
Commentary co-authored by Binbin Li, assistant professor of environmental science at Duke Kunshan University
Durham Leaders Considering Tax on Single-Use Paper or Plastic Bags in City and County
Interview with Clinical Professor of Law Michelle Nowlin, who discusses a proposal from the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic