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Funded by five endowments and the Nicholas School’s Annual Fund, the Nicholas Scholars program awards scholarships covering up to two-thirds of tuition to as many as 15 of the most highly qualified Master of Environmental Management (MEM) or Master of Forestry (MF) applicants each year.

Hydrocarbon is significantly more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2.

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.

A new analysis provides state-by-state projections of the health and economic benefits the U.S. will see by 2030 if we begin reducing fossil-fuel emissions now.

In a guest column, Nicholas School alumna Michaela Stith T'18 shares her insights about the corrosive confluence of environmental, social and economic injustices faced by Indigenous, Black and dark-skinned residents of the Arctic region.

PhD student Chainey Boroski designed a new Mentoring Guidelines Development Guide as one of Duke’s Re-Imagining Doctoral Education (RiDE) Fellows this summer.

By distinguishing between lead from modern sources and lead from pre-1970s vehicle exhaust fumes and leaded paint, the new test may be especially useful for assessing the hidden risks of legacy contamination.

U.S. study finds benefits of emission reductions outweigh costs ‘even in the near-term’

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, Clark spoke with PNAS about his recent work on tree fecundity—the potential to reproduce—and the race against climate change.

A study of fish routinely caught in the Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers as a source of food for people in low-income communities has prompted the state to update its fish consumption advisories.