���Ĵ�ý

Imagine a forest the size of Raleigh and Durham. Now imagine a forest that size dying every single year. It’s an unfortunate reality that’s happening right now across the North American Coastal Plain, including part of our backyard here in North Carolina.

The provost of ���Ĵ�ý conducts regular reviews of all deans, vice provosts, senior staff, and faculty who have major administrative positions reporting to the provost. Provost Sally Kornbluth has appointed a committee to conduct a review of Toddi Steelman, who is in the fourth year of her five-year term as Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment. The committee invites members of the Duke community to comment on the performance of Steelman or on the scope of her activities by email to NicholasDeanReview@duke.edu

Organized by biologist Emily Bernhardt, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Biology and chair of the department, and Norman Wirzba, Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, Duke’s latest university course, “UNIV 102: Let’s Talk About Climate Change,” will be open next fall semester to undergraduate students from across the university, although it will be targeted to first- and second-year students.

Dale Threatt-Taylor, executive director for The Nature Conservancy in South Carolina, will address 2022 graduates of ���Ĵ�ý’s Nicholas School of the Environment at the school’s Recognition Ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 7.

This week’s IPCC report laid out in no uncertain terms how little time we have left to get our act together to prevent disastrous global warming. Hidden inside the dense report is a challenge for, of all industries, fossil fuel producers: Step up your game on methane.

While friendly close contact is essential to dolphin social bonds, sharing space and air can also quickly spread disease

If rivers and streams are to the planet what arteries and blood vessels are to the human body — as aquatic researchers submit they are — then monitoring those freshwater systems is akin to using a stethoscope to assess the Earth’s overall health, tracking its metabolic respiration and production rates.

On bad days, when Jeff Jordan has gone to bed to the thrum of power plant turbines or awakened to the stench of asphalt production, he worries that his hometown is doomed to die.