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A team of 91�������� students snagged the $20,000 Geothermal Technologies Office Bonus Prize during the 2025 EnergyTech University Prize Competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Commercialization. The national competition challenges student teams to showcase creative ways to bring energy technology to market.

As an executive in residence at the Nicholas School, Parker designs simulations and projects that reflect the kinds of high-stakes, ambiguous problems students will face in their sustainability careers.

The Master in Business, Climate, and Sustainability, designed by faculty in the Nicholas School and the Fuqua School of Business, will equip students with core business skills informed by climate science.

The tool, which uses AI and climate data to predict when and where malaria outbreaks will occur, will help Central American countries control a resurgent malaria threat.

A Nicholas School startup focused on improving energy system management through smarter forecasting and robust risk analysis has been selected for the 15th cohort of the Joules Accelerator, a nationally recognized program for high-potential energy ventures.

Duke and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have signed an agreement to establish a five-year initiative to support small-scale fisheries worldwide through research, knowledge sharing and capacity building. John Virdin will lead Duke’s efforts.

The Duke Critical Minerals Hub was one of three faculty collaborations selected for support through a new internal funding opportunity. The project brings together experts from engineering and the natural and social sciences to establish an interdisciplinary platform for research and education on lithium and other critical minerals.

From Costa Rica to Thailand, the rising senior has forged an interdisciplinary path.

At the Nicholas School of the Environment, researchers and entrepreneurs are joining forces to solve environmental problems.

Xavier Basurto, Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Associate Professor of sustainability science, studies community-based marine conservation. Basurto discusses how fishers can help us understand the effects of climate change by listening to their experiences.

Ph.D. students Keqi He, Rafaella Lobo honored for their respective scholarship.

This year’s global Earth Day theme is “planet vs plastics”, and calls for the rapid phase out all single-use plastics.

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.

Meet the Silliman Lab, learn more about its research focus, a PhD student's experience in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers Duke students.

Maintaining a water level between 20 and 30 centimeters below the local water table will boost southern peatlands’ carbon storage and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases they release back into the atmosphere during dry periods by up to 90%, a 91�������� study finds.