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    Earth Saw Record-High Greening in 2020. What’s at the Root?

    Satellite records show spectacular vegetation growth coinciding with the first year of the pandemic. Researchers investigated whether lockdowns played a role.
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    NSOE Lab of the Month: PlanetLab

    Meet the PlanetLab, learn more about its research focus, lab members' experiences in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers Duke students.
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    Small-Scale Fisheries Essential to Global Nutrition, Livelihoods

    Small-scale fisheries play a significant but overlooked role in global fisheries production and are key to addressing hunger and malnutrition while supporting livelihoods around the world, according to research featured on the cover of Nature.
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    What Are the Effects of Historic Lithium Mining on Water Quality?

    Duke study reveals low levels of common contaminants but high levels of other elements in waters associated with an abandoned lithium mine.
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    Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places
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    Scientists Develop New Geochemical ‘Fingerprint’ to Trace Contaminants in Fertilizer

    An international team of scientists has revealed high levels of toxic metals in global phosphate fertilizers using a variant of the element strontium to uncover such metals in soil, groundwater and possibly the food chain.
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    NSOE Lab of the Month: Vengosh Lab

    Meet 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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    Self-Governance for Sustainability in Coupled Human-Natural Systems

    Xavier Basurto is broadly interested in how people in small communities successfully organize themselves for collective action. His recent talk described his work in advancing the understanding of non-colonialist sustainability science: the prospects and limitations of self-organization, or self-governance, for social-ecological sustainability, particularly in the Global South.
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    As the world undergoes the great energy transition — from fossil fuels to alternative energy and batteries — rare earth metals are becoming more precious.
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    Illuminating Hidden Harvests Report: The Contributions of Small-Scale Fisheries to Sustainable Development

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    Duke scholars and students were among more than 800 experts who contributed to global study calling for policymakers to consider contributions of small fisheries

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