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NewsUsing drones and high-tech tracking devices, scientists have discovered baleen whales eat up to three times more prey than previously thought and play a critical but perhaps underappreciated role in fueling the ocean’s food web and promoting biodiversity.
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NewsA new international study suggests that invasive species, such as the cordgrass that is swamping native plants in the Red Marshes, pose a much greater threat to protected areas, even well managed ones, than was previously recognized.
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NewsUsing drones and artificial intelligence to monitor large colonies of seabirds can be as effective as traditional on-the-ground methods while reducing costs, labor and the risk of human error, a new study finds.
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NewsJoel Dunn (MEM’04) Helps Create America’s First National Marine Sanctuary in 20 Years
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NewsShannon Switzer Swanson MEM'15 hosts the documentary, “The Last Drop.”
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NewsRecent Duke grad Alexandra DiGiacomo (BS ’20) is using drones to better understand how rising seas, warming waters and rapid development are killing protective saltmarshes at our coast, and what can be done to reverse the losses.
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NewsSixteen years after the restoration of Upper Sandy Creek began, hundreds of species, some rare, now call the once-heavily eroded and degraded stream home, and nitrogen pollution flowing off Duke’s campus into downstream waters has been slashed by 75%.
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NewsThe Duke Aquafarm is Duke’s other “campus farm,” where students grow oysters instead of produce and learn how the tasty bivalves could help take a bite out of coastal pollution.
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NewsOcean mammals are at a crossroads, with some species at risk of extinction and others showing signs of recovery, a new study by an international team of researchers shows.
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NewsA new $411,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is funding a four-year study by Duke University researchers to better understand the cumulative effects of human and natural stresses on critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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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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NewsA new paper outlines some of the greatest coastal restoration successes in recent decades and identifies lessons we can learn from them to protect and restore similar environments worldwide.
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NewsDuke University researchers have created a new online resource designed to help local governments, conservation groups, businesses and other stakeholders identify the best technologies to clean up plastic pollution in our oceans or prevent it from getting there in the first place.
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NewsIn 2017, a Cuvier’s beaked whale that had been tagged by a team of Duke University marine scientists dove deep into the waters off Cape Hatteras, N.C, and stayed below the surface for 3 hours and 42 minutes before coming up for air – making it the longest whale dive ever recorded.
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NewsActing like high-rise timeshares in the sea, shipwrecks and other artificial reefs can support dense populations of sharks, mackerels, barracudas, jacks and other large migratory marine predators essential to ocean health, according to a new study at 30 sites along the North Carolina coast.