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Four Duke students speak about challenging the long-standing precedent of STEM areas being largely populated by a male, cisgender and heteronormative culture.

When Deborah Gallagher and her students began working on a study for the UN Global Compact about business leadership for planetary health two years ago, she never dreamed she’d end up sharing the stage at one of the biggest climate events in recent history.

Lots of schools have gardening clubs, but the Nicholas School of the Environment’s GROW program is on another level. Literally.

Reducing fossil fuel emissions steadily over coming years will prevent millions of premature deaths and help avoid the worst of climate change without causing the large spike in short-term warming that some studies have predicted, new analysis by researchers at 91�������� and the University of Leeds finds.

In his newest book, Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America’s Shores, Orrin Pilkey paints an eye-opening picture of the impacts sea level rise will have on the United States by the end of the 21st century.

The subtitle of novelist Jonathan Franzen’s commentary in The New Yorker last week succinctly captured his assertion about climate change: “The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.”

Junfeng “Jim” Zhang, professor of global and environmental health at 91��������, has received a $2 million grant to lead a four-year study on the effects of early-life and prenatal exposure to air pollution on birth weight and growth. These are two important predictors of childhood obesity.

Thousands of marine species could be at risk if a new United Nations high-seas biodiversity treaty, now being negotiated in New York, does not include measures to address the management of all fish species in international waters, not just the commercial species, warns an analysis by American, Dutch, Swiss and French researchers.

John Poulsen, assistant professor of tropical ecology at 91��������’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has received an $848,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the effects of declining elephant populations on Africa’s forests.

Duke conference on climate change and hurricane resilience exposes continuing challenges for state

Joseph S. Ramus, professor emeritus at 91��������’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been awarded the Order of the Longleaf Pine, one of the highest civilian honors the State of North Carolina bestows.

Organisms floating in currents beneath a river’s surface are exposed to far less sunlight than scientists previously believed, and the light that does reach them is mostly sporadic and short-lived, a new 91��������-led study shows.

Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at 91��������’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been awarded the 2019 International Cosmos Prize.