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PhD student Renata Poulton Kamakura has been working with Duke Landscape Services and undergraduate students in the Theory and Applications of Sustainability (ENV 245) course to determine how the more than 17,000 trees on the 91�������� campus benefit sustainability—including their effect on carbon sequestration and stormwater mitigation.

President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.

With climate change, plastic pollution and a potential sixth mass extinction, humanity has made some incredible messes in the world. But when people, political factions and nations have pulled together, they have also cleaned up some of those human-caused environmental problems, including healing the ozone hole, clearing perpetually smoggy air and saving many species from the brink of extinction.

When it comes to making communities and businesses greener, re-thinking the “little” stuff we often take for granted—like zoning, logistics and cement—can yield big benefits.

‘Our Great National Parks’ overly idealizes U.S. conservation efforts and gives a mealymouthed call to climate action

Doctoral students Ningjie Hu and Graden Froese will receive this year’s Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Graduate Student Manuscript.

Ryan Emanuel, associate professor of hydrology, and Alexander Glass, senior lecturer in earth and climate sciences, have been selected as members of 91��������’s first cohort of Climate Change Faculty Fellows.

John Fay, an instructor in the Nicholas School of the Environment’s geospatial analysis program, is the recipient of the 2022 Lynn Maguire Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Professional Students.

DEL-MEM student Megan Cook used her Master's Project (MP) to examine the International Seabed Authority’s Regional Environmental Management Planning (REMP) efforts for the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge and North West Pacific Ocean.

Narissa Jimenez-Petchumrus, Camila Zárate Ospina and Will Price worked with the Town of Nags Head, North Carolina, on their group Master’s Project (MP) to help develop an electric vehicle (EV) action plan for the Outer Banks town to adopt.

Master of Forestry student Elisabeth McElwee studied the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) as a tool in forest management for her Master's Project (MP). McElwee worked with The Forestland Group to explore how drones could be used as a tool in forest management in the mountainous mixed broadleaf forests of West Virginia.

DEL-MEM student Jennifer Cherry developed a marine debris education and outreach program for sea turtle conservation for Volusia County, Florida, as part of her Master's Project (MP).

Master of Environmental Management student Ruoxue Chen explored current health and environmental disparities related to historical discriminatory, race-based housing practices, known as “redlining,” in Durham, N.C. for their Master's Project (MP).

DEL-MEM student Charles Calvat focused his Master's Project (MP) on assessing the performance of non-governmental organization-corporate coalitions in the food and beverage sector.

Master of Environmental Management students Tay Holliday and Cassidy White worked with the National Parks Service on a regional climate exposure assessment as part of their Master's Project (MP).