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Joel Dunn (MEM’04) Helps Create America’s First National Marine Sanctuary in 20 Years

By investigating the residual effects of lithium mining on the quality of North Carolina water resources, researchers from the Nicholas School of the Environment shed light on potential impacts from future mining operations.

Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been awarded the 2019 International Cosmos Prize.

Contaminants that occur together naturally in groundwater under certain geological conditions may heighten health risks for millions of North Carolinians whose drinking water comes from private wells, and current safety regulations don’t address the problem, a new ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 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.

A new international study suggests that invasive species, such as the cordgrass that is swamping native plants in the Red Marshes, pose a much greater threat to protected areas, even well managed ones, than was previously recognized.

Using drones and high-tech tracking devices, scientists have discovered baleen whales eat up to three times more prey than previously thought and play a critical but perhaps underappreciated role in fueling the ocean’s food web and promoting biodiversity.