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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 ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½s.

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 ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½-led study sheds light on one of Earth’s least understood biospheres.

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.

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.

The relief fund, in partnership with Duke’s Office of Durham & Community Affairs, will help provide relief grants for local organizations.

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 ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ study finds low-severity fires spark the opposite outcome.

Six Nicholas School of the Environment doctoral students have been awarded Graduate ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Training Enhancement Grants that will enable them to do remote summer internships that augment their doctoral research.

Reusing low-saline oilfield water mixed with surface water to irrigate farms in the Cawelo Water District of California does not pose major health risks, as some opponents of the practice have feared, a study led by ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ and RTI International researchers finds.

Researchers at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ have deployed a 500-foot mooring line capable of collecting an array of biological and environmental data in the ocean.