With the Duke Conservation Society, I recently visited the Carolina Tiger Rescue, a 55-acre sanctuary in Pittsboro, North Carolina, that is home to tigers, lions and more.
A Durham Oasis
Student life can get hectic so being able to take a short drive to the beautiful Eno River State Park is a wonderful amenity to have.
Two Degrees
Two degrees. This has always been the focus, the threshold, the point of no return. At the San Francisco Global Climate Action Summit, a temperature increase of two degrees no longer seemed urgent enough. And it isn’t.
On Losing Your Marbles
Several new studies suggest that air pollutants in general—gases as well as particles—may be responsible for widespread cognitive decline in the human population
Making Strides: Caring for Mental and Emotional Well-Being in Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
We need to take better care of the members of our community by recognizing the different ways our identities impact our mental and emotional well-being and, thus, our academic and professional work.
Replication in global change ecology
The opposition to global warming theory would melt in the face of an experiment with five Earth’s receiving no treatment and five Earth’s with CO2 added to the atmosphere
Portraits of Shanghai (Pt. 1): East Meets West and Old Meets New
On National Holiday Week, I took a trip to Shanghai, playing tourist in the vast megacity that Kunshan orbits.
Technosphere workshop
If you are interested in the technosphere and are in the UK or environs, consider the workshop described below. The questions it will address include many of relevance to the topic of this blog. Technosphere:Continue reading
Gardeners of Eden: A Documentary Screening and Q&A
The Nicholas School’s Duke Conservation Society and African Environment Initiative partnered to host a documentary screening of Gardeners of Eden, followed by a Q&A with Duke’s resident elephant expert John Poulsen
