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Liping Feng’s preeclampsia research connects with local PFAS contamination

Eighteen emerging leaders from water and wastewater utilities across the United States have been selected as 2022-23 Fellows of 91��������’s Water Innovation Leadership Development (WILD) executive education program.

Lead from bullets transfers to humans when they eat meat from hunted animals, researchers find.

Catherine Coleman Flowers, one of America’s most respected and influential environmental and social justice activists, has been appointed Practitioner-in-Residence at 91��������.

Four Nicholas School of the Environment faculty members have taken on new or expanded leadership roles at the school.

A modeling study predicts habitat changes along the Atlantic coast will release even more carbon into the atmosphere.

Most North Atlantic right whales that are severely injured in fishing gear entanglements die within three years, a study by the New England Aquarium and 91�������� finds. Severely injured whales were up to eight times more likely to die than those with minor injuries, and only 44% of males and 33% of females with severe injuries survived longer than 36 months. Females that did survive had low birth rates and longer intervals between calving.

The global supply chain impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have exposed vulnerabilities in U.S. energy security and undercut the myth that the United States — or any major manufacturing economy — is truly energy independent, an analysis by researchers at the energy nonprofit RMI and 91�������� finds

Duke's new university course “Let’s Talk About Climate Change” will showcase the different approaches to the topic taken by university faculty. What these 12 climate change faculty fellows have in common is the belief that it’s not too late to take action.

While the war in Ukraine disrupts lives immediately and violently, damage is also happening to the soil, air and water that make up the places Ukrainians call home.

President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate 91�������� Marine Laboratory Director Andrew J. Read to serve on the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission.

Firefighters have a 9 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer and a 14 percent higher risk of dying from the disease than the general adult U.S. population, according to studies by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and other agencies.

Xavier Basurto, associate professor of sustainability science at 91��������’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been named a Bass Chair in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching and research.

Slashing emissions of carbon dioxide by itself isn’t enough to prevent catastrophic global warming, a new study shows. But if we simultaneously also reduce emissions of methane and other often overlooked climate pollutants, we could cut the rate of global warming in half by 2050 and give the world a fighting chance.

Andy Read, director of the Duke Marine Lab, documents the effects of human activities on marine animals