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NewsA new e-learning course is supporting countries’ efforts to collect data on the impact of small-scale fisheries using an approach developed by experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Duke University and WorldFish.
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NewsEight Duke University undergraduate students were named to the inaugural Climate Scholars Program cohort.
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NewsSix Duke University undergraduates have been selected to the university’s Repass-Rodgers Scholars Program.
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NewsDuke University’s Scholars in Marine Medicine program, which offers an interdisciplinary research experience for pre-health majors interested in marine biology or environmental science, announced seven new members.
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NewsFifteen Duke University undergraduate students have been selected as members of the Rachel Carson Scholars Program, which aims to train the next generation of marine conservation leaders.
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NewsThe return of sea otters, a top predator, to a California estuary is helping slow erosion and restore the estuary’s degraded geology.
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NewsJane Lubchenco will present the 2024 Ferguson Family Lecture, “Making Waves: Science, the Planet, and Our Future” on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 6:15 p.m.
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NewsEighteen emerging leaders from water and wastewater utilities across the United States have been selected as 2024 Fellows of the Nicholas School for the Environment at Duke University’s Water Innovation Leadership Development (WILD) Environment+ program.
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NewsMeet the Vengosh Lab, learn more about its research focus, PhD students' experience in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers Duke students.
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NewsThe largest analysis yet of African savannah elephant populations shows that conservationists have successfully protected elephants in southern Africa for the last 25 years. However, the pattern varies regionally, with some elephant populations soaring and others still facing large declines. The key to long-term stability appears to be connecting large core areas with neighboring buffer zones, as opposed to well-protected but isolated protected areas known as “fortress conservation.”
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NewsThe vast size of the ocean makes tracking human activity there challenging, but a new study provides a startling glimpse of how extensive this activity has become in recent years and how much of it occurs outside of public monitoring.
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NewsMeet the Stapleton Lab, learn more about its research focus, a postdoc's experience in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers Duke students.
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NewsMaddie Shiff, a second-year student in the Duke Environmental Leadership Master of Environmental Management (DEL-MEM) program, recently shared insights into why she's pursuing her degree, how she balances her studies with her career and how she's applying what she's learning to her job.
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NewsShineng Hu is a climate scientist specializing in using observations, theory and climate models to better understand the relationship between global ocean and atmospheric movement, especially as that relationship indicates and informs climate change.
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NewsOnce a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain these and other prehistoric animals during the Mesozoic Era, starting 252 million years ago, by being plentiful in the forest understory. Today, just a few species of the palm-like plants survive in tropical and subtropical habitats.