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Second-year Master of Environmental Management (MEM) student Aislinn McLaughlin spent her summer interning with American Rivers, a river conservation organization, in Durango, Colorado. Duke Environment recently corresponded with McLaughlin, who is pursuing her MEM in Water Resources Management, to learn more about her experience.

The Marathon Oil Megadrought has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

The proposed Range of Light National Monument could be a conservation game-changer.

A partnership between 91�������� and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the new concurrent Master of Environmental Management/Master of City and Regional Planning provides training to those seeking to solve environmental issues within an urban context.

Stemming the methane leaks from landfills, oil fields, natural gas pipelines and more is one of the most powerful levers we have to quickly slow global warming.

It’s more controversial than you might think.

CBS 17 asked Tim Johnson, a faculty member at 91��������’s Nicholas School of the Environment, how realistic the goal is.

McDonald’s CEO and Duke alumnus Chris Kempczinski (AB’91) spoke with Toddi Steelman (PhD ’96), Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, about ways the corporation is working to drive climate action, create circular solutions to reduce waste and further its commitment to our planet.

Rather than focus on decline, the new standard from the IUCN highlights successful conservation work — and incentivizes future efforts

Populations of giant pandas in the wild are more fragmented and isolated than they were 30 years ago and many continue to face a high risk of extinction despite recent gains in the species’ overall numbers, a new study by Chinese and American scientists finds.

More than two years after Knox News sounded the alarm that children could be exposed to radioactive coal ash on an East Tennessee playground, an independent scientific study has confirmed coal ash waste at the site.

To conserve global biodiversity, countries must forge equitable alliances that support sustainability in traditional pastoral lands, fisheries-management areas, Indigenous territories and more.

As lobsters decline, enormous industrial operations could be on the horizon. “They are gambling with our livelihood, our coastline, and our future.”

Coal ash particles have been found in soil near two coal-fired power plants: Duke Energy’s Marshall Steam Station on Lake Norman near the Iredell-Catawba county line in North Carolina, and Bull Run Steam Plant, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, in Clayton, Tenn., scientists announced this week.