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Researchers have used automatic identification systems (AIS) satellite data and other spatial analysis tools to identify more than 1,000 companies that fish in the high seas—waters that lie outside national jurisdiction where fishing has raised fears about environmental and labor violations.

Michael Regan, if confirmed, will take over an agency central to achieving the new administration’s climate agenda.

A trove from a Portuguese trading ship that sank in 1533 preserved genetic traces of whole lineages that have vanished from West Africa.

From the discovery of a giant coral reef pinnacle to a shocking estimate of plastics on the seafloor, these were the biggest marine moments of the year.

How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare.

A project funded by the Department of Defense will make the NC shoreline more resilient against severe weather and protect fragile ecosystems.

Last year, five 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû faculty members set out to build skills and add new dimensions to their work. In these excerpts from their Faculty Teaching/Research Enhancement Grants (FTREG) reports, they share what they undertook and how these experiences will help them and their students.

At 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû I have been studying one specific species of sea anemone, Aiptasia pallida, which seems to find plastic particularly tasty.

Since vaccines work by building herd immunity, a refusal to vaccinate among large segments of the population would deal a serious blow to any disease control strategy.

Increasing temperatures are making coffee harder to grow and less tasty. Coffee companies, governments, and farmers are working together to make a more resilient bean—but will it be enough?

Joel Dunn, a 2004 Master of Environmental Management (MEM) graduate of the Nicholas School of the Environment, has been named a Chesapeake Bay Ambassador by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.

North Dakota's water supplies are at risk from contaminants from fracking wastewater, but residents are fighting back.

91ÉçÇø¸£Àû undergraduates launched the second season of the Operation Climate podcast, which aims to raise awareness of climate change, how it affects our lives, and the innovations and technologies being developed at Duke to help solve it.

The landward movement of seawater threatens drinking water supplies, coastal farming and coastal ecosystems.

Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, a 2020 doctoral graduate of the Nicholas School of the Environment, has been selected to serve as one of four co-leads for the United Nations’ new Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) initiative.