Emily Bernhardt helps explain how climate change could increase the chance of landslides and mining-related water pollution on Appalachia’s strip-mined mountains.

Emily Bernhardt, Ram Oren, Heather Stapleton, Drew Shindell, Avner Vengosh and Mark Wiesner as well as adjuncts Amilcare Porporato and Rob Jackson were among the 54 Duke University faculty members named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019.

Avner Vengosh says the Trump administration's rollbacks of coal ash rules lack any scientific support whatsoever.

Internships have long been an integral part of the Nicholas School experience. The Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC) hosted the school's first ever Internship Week to give students a head start in the process.

Duke University has purchased 27 acres of land at the corner of Old NC 86 and Eubanks Road in Orange County.

The ratio of carbon isotopes in three common species of tuna has changed substantially since 2000, suggesting major shifts are taking place in phytoplankton populations that form the base of the ocean’s food web, a new international study finds.

A new study which combines measurements from nearly 1,400 drinking water wells across North Carolina estimates that more than half of the wells in the state’s central region contain levels of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in excess of state safety standards.

Alex Marchyshyn, MEM/MBA’20, has stitched together the foundation for a bright future focusing on sustainable fashion.

The Flat-Earth All Stars Basketball Game helped build connections between students at the Nicholas School.

Inhaling dust that contains fly ash particles from coal combustion has been linked to lung and heart disease, cancer, nervous system disorders and other ill effects. But tracking the presence of coal ash in dust has been a challenge for scientists.

The ongoing transition from coal to natural gas and renewables in the U.S. electricity sector is dramatically reducing the industry’s water use, a new Duke University study finds.

Second-year Master of Environmental Management (MEM) student Ben McCormack spent the summer of 2019 interning at Clif Bar. His job: To help the company create its first Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report, a critical step toward achieving its emissions-reductions goal.

Predicting if droughts and heat waves will kill forests is difficult, but new work by scientists and engineers at Duke, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Alabama (UA) could help scientists spot problems early enough that they can still mitigate the threats and help restore at-risk forests.

Scientists at Duke University’s Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab and other leading marine research institutions worldwide have created an open-access online database that maps the movements of migratory species through the open ocean.