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Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 triggered widespread algal blooms in the Southern Ocean thousands of miles downwind to the east, a new 91��������-led study by an international team of scientists finds.

"My dissertation examines water management norms through the study of seawater desalination, the technological process that removes salts and minerals from saline water like the ocean to produce drinkable water. Often desalination is framed as a technical supply “solution” to the problem of water scarcity, which will affect 1.8 billion people by 2025. But desalination’s known downsides — such as its high financial costs, large energy needs, local community impact, and environmental harm to marine life — as well as its yet-to-be-seen effects make it socially, economically, environmentally, and politically contentious."

After a long record of university service, new Academic Council Chair Erika Weinthal takes office with a responsibility only one other Council chair has had before: Helping faculty and the university community create a robust academic and campus environment in the middle of a persistent pandemic.

Trillions of metallic nodules on the sea floor could help stop global heating, but mining them may damage ocean ecology.

Most people are likely to experience an extreme pandemic like COVID-19 in their lifetime, a new study shows.

Two small mammal groups — Rodentia (like mice, beavers, squirrels) and Eulipotyphla (like shrews, moles and hedgehogs) — together contain nearly half of all known mammal species.

The Covid pandemic has proved to be the deadliest viral outbreak the world has seen for more than a century – so it is tempting to hope we will be spared another such crisis in our lifetimes. But scientists have crunched the numbers – and it's bad news for anyone who is in their early 20s or younger.

Joseph “Joe” Bonaventura, professor emeritus of marine science and conservation at the 91�������� Marine Lab and a member of the Duke faculty since 1972, died August 14 following six years of treatment for liver cancer. He was 79.

Warming waters along the Western Antarctic Peninsula have led to declines in the diversity and distribution of the region’s plankton population and its ability to absorb climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

As trees age and grow, it seems logical to assume their seed production will continue to grow, too, but a Duke-led study of 597 species worldwide nips that assumption in the bud.

Israel Golden, a second-year Master of Environmental Management (MEM) and Master of Forestry (MF) concurrent 91�������� student, spent his summer interning with both the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) and the Wild Bird Research Group in western North Carolina.

Savannah Artusi, a second-year Master of Environmental Management (MEM) and Juris Doctor concurrent 91�������� student, spent her summer as a policy fellow for Sierra Club’s North Carolina chapter.

Industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes and generate electricity. It may, in fact, be worse for the climate than previously thought.

A landmark report on the science of climate change underplays the quick benefit of reducing methane emissions, but the Biden administration says they’re on it, anyway.

Bottlenose dolphins use ‘mud rings’ to blindside fish in the Florida Keys — and now the Caribbean.