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High-intensity fires can destroy peat bogs and cause them to emit huge amounts of their stored carbon into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases, but a new 91�������� study finds low-severity fires spark the opposite outcome.

The coal ash produced at a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant near Knoxville is more than three times richer in uranium – and the dangerous radioactive elements it produces as it breaks down – than documented in public reports after a massive coal ash spill in 2008.

By providing the first estimate of how much hydrogen is available to fuel microbial life in the sunless sub-seafloor crust beneath the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR), a new 91��������-led study sheds light on one of Earth’s least understood biospheres.

Betsy Albright and Tim Johnson are the recipients of the Nicholas School of the Environment’s inaugural Lynn Maguire Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Professional Students.

A new $2.44 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will support a 91��������-led initiative to help utilities and wholesale electricity markets improve their efficiency and reliability while reducing emissions and costs, at a time of needed transformations to tackle climate change.

While some energy experts are uncertain about the long-term environmental effects, ‘we should be investing in the technologies of tomorrow,’ they say

Experts from 91�������� say that isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic is improving air quality and could reduce the global demand for energy.

Environmental experts at 91�������� say the COVID-19 pandemic could have wide-ranging implications for the way the world produces and consumes energy.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a destructive effect on the oil industry, but may give lawmakers and policy experts a chance to do some productive, environmentally friendly long-term energy planning, three Duke experts said.

Barnacles need to be fed, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. 91�������� granted limited lab access to those deemed essential during their shut down. One essential researcher was Daniel Rittschof.

A long-standing UN policy, recognizing biomass burning as carbon neutral, has caused the U.S. forestry industry to gear up to produce wood pellets for power plants in Britain, the EU, South Korea and beyond. Scientists warn that the failure to count the emissions produced by such plants could help destabilize the global climate.

Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics at 91��������’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She is one of 27 scholars selected from more than 300 nominations this year for the prestigious fellowship.

The Nicholas School of the Environment and the 91�������� Marine Lab recognized four outstanding graduating seniors with special awards today during the school’s “Marking the Moment” virtual acknowledgment event for undergraduates.

Four graduating Master of Environmental Management (MEM) students will share the 2020 Virlis L. Fischer Memorial Award for academic achievement. All four of the students are graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

The Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean (MiCO) system, an online open-access global database that maps the movements of sea turtles, whales, sea birds and other migratory species through the open ocean, has been awarded the 2020 Innovation Award by the Ocean Awards program.