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NewsNear America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs.
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NewsEcohydrologist Ryan E. Emanuel, known for his innovative scholarship on water, environmental justice and Indigenous rights, is joining the faculty at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment.
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NewsDuke University researchers have found high levels of toxic heavy metals in coal ash from the Dominican Republic’s largest coal-fired power plant.
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NewsIn Virginia’s Elizabeth River, the unremarkable-looking mummichog has survived decades of industrial pollution—but the price it has paid has worrying implications for human health.
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NewsDuke experts Dr. Gregory Gray, Stuart Pimm and Linfa Wang brief the media on COVID-19 origins, ways to prepare for the next outbreak.
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NewsTwo Nicholas School faculty members have been recognized by the university – and by their students – as being among Duke University’s best teachers.
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NewsAcademic journals’ current name-change policies unintentionally discriminate against transgender researchers and may increase the risks of discrimination, harassment and violence against them, a new peer-reviewed paper finds.
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NewsAt Duke Marine Lab, students get to have hands-on experiences growing oysters at their aquafarm.
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NewsThe number of endangered North Atlantic right whales remains dangerously low.
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NewsFewer than 366 surviving North Atlantic right whales remain on Earth as extinction pressures mount on the critically endangered species, a new assessment published today in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms finds.
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NewsDuke professors Tim Profeta and Drew Shindell talk about the importance of the Paris Agreement and the urgency for the United States to make up lost time.
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NewsAcross North America, seed production patterns in eastern and western forests are responding differently to climate change, new research suggests.
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NewsNew research reveals western North American forests may be less able than eastern forests to regenerate following large-scale diebacks linked to climate change. Over time, this could dramatically alter the continent’s landscape.
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NewsMassive power outages in Texas brought on by a historic freeze could be avoided in the future if the state no longer isolates its power grid from other states, among other steps, according to Duke University experts.
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NewsAs a member of the Nowacek Lab at the Duke University Marine Lab I study the movement of tiny plastic pieces throughout the bodies of whales and other marine mammals.