What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change?
Opinion article by Alex Rosenberg, a professor of philosophy, in The New York Times
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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Paleontologist Richard Leakey to Deliver Lecture on Humanity’s Future
The event is free and open to the public
October 14, 2019
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To Save Sinking Cities and Bleaching Corals, Both Local and Global Efforts Are Required
October 07, 2019
Nicholas School of the Environment
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New Nicholas Environmental Analysis Lab To Watch the Toxins We Are Exposed to in Daily Life
October 07, 2019
Nicholas School of the Environment
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News Tip: Pennsylvania’s Cap-and-Trade Move a ‘Game Changer,' Experts Say
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf today (Thursday) initiated a process for his state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade program to reduce emissions from the power sector in New England and Mid-Atlantic states.
October 04, 2019
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Duke Study: EPA’s Proposed Coal Ash Amendments Will Boost Risk of Toxic Contamination
September 30, 2019
Nicholas School of the Environment
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Machine Learning Finds New Metamaterial Designs for Energy Harvesting
September 25, 2019
Pratt School of Engineering
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Cutting Fossil Fuel Emissions Gradually Will Avert Sharp Jump in Warming
September 18, 2019
Nicholas School of the Environment
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News Tip: Success of U.N. Climate Summit Hinges on Plans, Not Speeches, Expert Says
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on world leaders to bring concrete plans to the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York Sept.
September 18, 2019
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News Tip: Hurricane Experts on Flooding, Recovery Available to Comment
Hurricane Dorian is expected to hit the southeastern U.S.
September 04, 2019
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Study: To Protect Endangered Marine Life, UN Biodiversity Treaty Must Include Expanded Protection for All Species
August 29, 2019
Nicholas School of the Environment
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Water Quality Versus Water Quantity
Podcast interview with Earth and Ocean Sciences professor Avner Vengosh, discussing his latest research
October 15, 2019
American Scientist
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Climate Change and the 2020 Election: Where the Candidates Stand
Quotes Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics
October 14, 2019
U.S. News & World Report
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Reforming the Carolinas’ Power Markets: Producing a Panacea or a Pandora’s Box?
Opinion article by Brian Murray, director of the Duke University Energy Initiative
October 14, 2019
Forbes
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Leading Scientist Asks NC’s Governor to Reject New Climate Change Threats
Features comments by Drew Shindell, Nicholas Professor of Earth Science, from a letter and interview
October 11, 2019
The State, News & Observer
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How to Save Sinking Cities and Bleaching Corals?
Covers research from Duke and Fudan universities; quotes Brian R. Silliman, an associate professor of marine conservation biology (Nicholas School)
October 09, 2019
TreeHugger
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Duke Wins $5 Million Grant to Help Scientists Identify Environmental Contaminants
Covers the Nicholas School announcement of a five-year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
October 08, 2019
News & Observer
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‘Sea Level Rise’: Real Life Disaster Yarn
Review of a new book co-authored by professor emeritus Orrin Pilkey (Nicholas School)
October 08, 2019
New Bern Sun Journal
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Ghost Forests Are Visceral Examples of the Advance of Climate Change
Includes comments by biology professor Emily Bernhardt
October 08, 2019
TIME
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Wolbachia Mosquitoes to Be Released in More Neighborhoods
Covers an ongoing study; quotes Duane Gubler, founding director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Program at Duke-NUS Medical School and an adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine
October 08, 2019
Channel NewsAsia
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Small Farms Valuable Assets to Society, Sustainability
Opinion article by Charles D. Thompson Jr.
October 07, 2019
Albany Times Union