http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ News from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University en-us http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-krithiaward.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-murraycited.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-pimmstudents.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-sidgawards.html learn more http://news.duke.edu/2008/04/rittschof._print.ht learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-toomey.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-curtbook.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-prasad.html learn more http://news.duke.edu/2008/04/earth%20day%20speech.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-oostinglecture.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-orr.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-earthhour.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dorisduke.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dumlawards.html learn more http://news.duke.edu/2008/03/marine_gift.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-newcert.html learn more http://news.duke.edu/2008/03/ozonetip.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-introducedpests.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dumlcourses.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dumlphd.html learn more http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/02/cedardry.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-agu.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-stanbackgift.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-aaas2008.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-rob.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-safe.html learn more http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/01/darwinsecurity.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-100million.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-ramscience.html learn more http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/01/soilsave.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dalia.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-chameides-sustainability.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-chandra.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/drought/ learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-phdaward.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-soils.html learn more http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/01/naochanges.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-watertownhall.html learn more http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dukengage.html read the story http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-clark.html read the story http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-flyingblind.html read the story http://news.duke.edu/2007/11/gendell.html read the story http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-debcsi.html Nicholas School Dean William L. Chameides has appointed Deborah Rigling Gallagher as associate faculty director of the Duke Corporate Sustainability Initiative (CSI). http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-price.html Writer Jenny Price, whose critically acclaimed essays on urban environmentalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Audubon, will discuss “Remaking American Environmentalism: On the Banks of the L.A. River,” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, at Duke University. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-aaas.html Bruce H. Corliss, professor of earth and ocean sciences, and Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/10/everglades.html State and federal standards for phosphorus releases into the Everglades seem sufficient to protect the huge wetland’s resident plants and animals from damage, but pollutant levels still reach double or triple safe levels near some of the Everglades’ outer edges.  http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ns-crowder.html A study of the accidental by-catch of Pacific loggerhead turtles by local fishing fleets in Baja California is shedding new light on the previously overlooked role small fisheries may play in the decline of endangered migratory marine animals worldwide.  http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ns-vengosh.html Water is a scarce and often contentious commodity in the Middle East, especially where surface and groundwater systems extend across political borders between hostile neighbors. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/vandovernyt.pdf Cindy Van Dover featured in the New York Times http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ns-safsymposium.html The Duke University Student Chapter of the Society of American Foresters will host a free daylong symposium, “Forestry and Conservation: Understanding and Creating Linkages,” from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, November 9, in the Christensen Reading Room of the Levine Science Research Center. Advance registration is required by Monday, November 5. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ns-bigsweep.html The Green Wave, a student-led sustainability movement at the Duke University Marine Lab, will clean up sections of downtown Beaufort and Radio Island as their contribution to the North Carolina Big Sweep Coastal Cleanup on October 13th. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ns-forestgathering.html The 2007 Duke Forest Annual Gathering will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at the New Hope Improvement Association Center in Chapel Hill. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ns-brodhead.html President Richard H. Brodhead toured the Nicholas School and met with Dean William L. Chameides and three faculty members today. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ns-cokeseminar.html The Duke Environmental Leadership (DEL) Program will host a forum on “Durham’s Commitment to Sustainability,” featuring corporate and civic leaders from the Bull City, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Love Auditorium of the Levine Science Research Center. http://news.duke.edu/2007/09/trustees_0907.html Duke Management Company (DUMAC), which manages Duke University’s endowment and other investment assets, achieved a return of 25.6 percent on the university’s investments in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2007. The investment returns and new gifts to the university’s endowment brought its market value to $5.9 billion. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-johnstonhumpback.html A new study finds that humpback whales, once hunted to near extinction in the North Pacific, are now wintering in the protected waters of the Papahanaumokuaea Marine National Monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-csi.html Duke University today announced the establishment of the new Duke Corporate Sustainability Initiative (CSI), an interdisciplinary initiative designed to examine corporate environmental practices from the perspectives of both business strategy and public policy. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-krithi.html When people and wildlife don’t mix – as in tiger reserves in India – moving the humans out is often unavoidable if the tigers are to survive. Critics have charged that this causes undue social disruption and economic hardships for the humans, undermining their welfare for that of the tigers. http://news.duke.edu/2007/09/founders.html Duke University will honor outstanding students, faculty, employees and alumni at its annual Founders’ Day Convocation in Duke Chapel at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-volday07.html They cleared. They sawed. They conquered. Seventy-six Nicholas School students volunteered their time and energy to work on environmental public-service projects at five sites around the Triangle as part of the first annual Nicholas School Student Volunteer Day on September 15. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-salmon.html A recent paper by a Nicholas School PhD candidate examining dams’ impacts on endangered spring-run Chinook salmon in the rivers of California’s Central Valley could serve as a cautionary tale to policymakers, scientists and resource managers currently embroiled in a debate about the construction of new dams in the region. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-facegrant.html The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University has received a two-year grant for $1,559,016 from the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy, to continue its research on carbon sequestration at the Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) facility in Duke Forest. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-envlawclinic.html The new Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Duke University has hung out its shingle. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-magliocca.html Nicholas School student Nicholas R. Magliocca has been awarded the first Dorothy Bertine Internship from the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-11thhour.html A new documentary on global climate change highlights the environmental expertise of four nationally known scholars and scientists with Nicholas School ties. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/08/carbonadd.html Duke Forest trees bathed in extra amounts of gas for a decade added carbon to their tissues, but unevenly. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-pratson.html Lincoln Pratson, associate professor of sedimentary geology and faculty director of the Nicholas School’s Energy and Environment Master of Environmental Management program, is helping teach courses on energy and the environment at the 2007 Sustainable Energy Fellowship short course program, July 21-28, at Arizona State University. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-esa2007.html More than 50 researchers, policy analysts and students from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University will present findings from new research or policy analysis at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the year’s most important ecological science conference, Aug. 5 to 10, in San Jose, Calif. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dorisduke2007.html Six Nicholas School students have been named Doris Duke Conservation Fellows for 2007-08. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-chameides.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-newellbush.html President George W. Bush’s call yesterday for talks over the next 18 months to establish a new framework for addressing global greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 is a sign of shifting political winds, says a Duke University energy economist. http://www.duke.edu/today/archive/oncamera.php?id=9063 http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-csspname.html The Nicholas School’s Division of Coastal Systems Science and Policy has been renamed the Division of Marine Science and Conservation. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-epahogwaste.html A research team led by Seth W. Kullman, assistant research professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Science at Duke University, has received a two-year, $663,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to examine the potential environmental impacts of estrogen in hog waste generated at concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO). http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-mlmgrant.html The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a $7.74 million award to Duke University to support a five-year study of the complex factors that jointly contribute to persistent inequalities in birth weight and premature birth. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-deanemily.html Emily M. Klein, senior associate dean and Lee Hill Snowden Professor of geology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, has been named interim dean of the Nicholas School, effective June 1, Provost Peter Lange announced on Monday. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/05/dryland.html Researchers suggest ways to keep land that is arid but workable from becoming unusable http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/05/conocophillips.html ConocoPhillips, the third-largest integrated energy company in the United States, has pledged $1 million to support an industry-university collaboration working to develop policies that address global climate change, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-jacksonaward.html Robert B. Jackson, professor of biology and faculty director of the Center on Global Change at Duke University, has been named Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change at Dukes Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-salzmanaward.html James Salzman has been named Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law by the Duke University School of Law. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/05/swamp_research.html Tests show the restored 14-acre Stream and Wetland Assessment Management Park is boosting biodiversity and helping reduce nitrate pollution in water downstream. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/04/wetland.ded.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-lozieraward.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-treml.html http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/04/smoker.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/04/greenhousegas_tip.html http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/04/earthday.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-agustudentaward.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/03/OSC.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-london.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-grad07speaker.html http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/03/luce.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/02/waterconf.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/02/meadwestvaco.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/02/lead.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-hyrenbachpew.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-newell.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-hegerlclimate.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/pilkmodel.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/reduce_emissions.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/profeta_tip.html http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-pimmsigmaxi.html