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Furniture, flooring, construction materials, and humans and their habits are just some sources of the thousands of particles and gases that surround people living indoors. As scientists collect increasingly sophisticated data on the chemistry of the indoor environment, policy-makers and industry leaders are seeking more information on how to apply these findings to buildings and homes, experts said at an American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium.

A new study that combines measurements from some 1,400 drinking water wells across North Carolina estimates that more than half the wells in the state's central region contain levels of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in excess of state safety standards. The NSF-funded findings are published in Science of the Total Environment.

When Tom Schultz learned about the Duke Campus Farm, a working farm in Duke Forest where students can volunteer to plant and harvest sustainably grown produce, an idea grew.

Those of us motivated by environmental concerns are often deeply invested in what I would refer to as the “crisis myth”—we have many problems over which we must watch.

Orrin Pilkey's call for humans to retreat from the beach and allow any structure that can’t be moved back to fall into the sea has been called radical and reproachable in more letters to the editor than he can count. But love him or loathe him, there’s no denying the impact Pilkey has had.

In 2017, 91�������� received an $11 million-dollar gift from the Grainger Family Descendants Fund to support the construction and operation of a new research vessel for the 91�������� Marine Lab.

Emily Bernhardt helps explain how climate change could increase the chance of landslides and mining-related water pollution on Appalachia’s strip-mined mountains.

To paraphrase remarks by my colleague Dan Vermeer at this month’s 91�������� Energy Conference, energy transitions are not new—but what is new about the one we are going through now is that it is intentional.

Emily Bernhardt, Ram Oren, Heather Stapleton, Drew Shindell, Avner Vengosh and Mark Wiesner as well as adjuncts Amilcare Porporato and Rob Jackson were among the 54 91�������� faculty members named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019.

Avner Vengosh says the Trump administration's rollbacks of coal ash rules lack any scientific support whatsoever.

Internships have long been an integral part of the Nicholas School experience. The Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC) hosted the school's first ever Internship Week to give students a head start in the process.

91�������� has purchased 27 acres of land at the corner of Old NC 86 and Eubanks Road in Orange County.

The ratio of carbon isotopes in three common species of tuna has changed substantially since 2000, suggesting major shifts are taking place in phytoplankton populations that form the base of the ocean’s food web, a new international study finds.

A new study which combines measurements from nearly 1,400 drinking water wells across North Carolina estimates that more than half of the wells in the state’s central region contain levels of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in excess of state safety standards.