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The vast size of the ocean makes tracking human activity there challenging, but a new study provides a startling glimpse of how extensive this activity has become in recent years and how much of it occurs outside of public monitoring.

A team of North Carolina scientists and researchers have less than two years to develop a proposal that will convince the National Science Foundation that eastern North Carolina is ripe to become an engine of innovative ecosystem technology that could advance a new workforce and a resilient and sustainable economy.

In June, enormous turbine pilings showed up on Nantucket Shoals off the coast of Massachusetts. And, in August, a vessel commissioned by the energy company TotalEnergies started surveying the Carolina Long Bay near Myrtle Beach, marking the first step in developing offshore wind energy for the Carolinas. Now, a government-funded report is raising important questions about how these Eiffel tower-size turbines will impact whale habitat.

Xavier Basurto is broadly interested in how people in small communities successfully organize themselves for collective action. His recent talk described his work in advancing the understanding of non-colonialist sustainability science: the prospects and limitations of self-organization, or self-governance, for social-ecological sustainability, particularly in the Global South.

As rising global temperatures push Arctic icecaps into retreat, large and small sea creatures and the commercial fishing boats that follow them are migrating northward.

Collins will be among the finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, hosted by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The winners take away cash prizes and an accelerated patent application to the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Throughout the disciplines and across its schools and programs, Duke is employing and empowering climate-fluent leaders to educate a new generation of students.

By 1900, many cities in the U.S., Canada and Europe were beginning to incinerate their burgeoning volumes of garbage and trash. At the time, public health boards, sanitary engineers and city leaders strongly supported incineration. From the 1930s through the 1960s, nearly half of U.S. and Canadian cities incinerated city waste, and millions of tons of ash was produced each year.

Creating a climate of change in a rising tide of bad news requires creativity, innovation and tenacity. Learn about the groundbreaking work that Duke’s environmental scientists have pioneered in the last 30 years.