Equitable Distribution of Urban Forests in Durham’s Historically Redlined Communities The Vicious Cycle of Redlining and Greenspace Urban forests offer aesthetic values and critical services, ranging from reduced energy use, improved air quality, community well-being,Continue reading
Rebuilding Coastal Ecosystems and Economies in North Carolina with Oyster Mariculture by Max Issokson
What is Oyster Maricutlure? When most people think of aquaculture, they imagine an industry focused on raising salmon, tilapia, and other finfish species in ponds or cages. As a result, many people perceive aquaculture toContinue reading
Super Plants?
It has been of great interest among plant geneticists to develop other crop plants that avoid photorespiration.
My top 3 tips for environmental job hunting
With job hunt season at the Nicholas School upon us, here are three tips for environmental job hunting.
Biogas and CAFOs in North Carolina by Carsten Pran
Over nine million hogs call North Carolina home and most of them live in densely-packed, windowless warehouses called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in the state’s eastern floodplains.1 The livestock produce an immense amount ofContinue reading
Paradise Found: Palau Dayang
Groggy, I’ve just awoken from a two-hour nap. I wake to the sound of waves hitting the side of the boat, muffled by the revving of the engine and buzz of the generator. I feelContinue reading
Soil Carbon Sequestration
Recent press coverage of soil carbon sequestration on farms creates the dangerous impression that we can easily store a significant fraction of CO2 from fossil fuel emissions through better soil management.
Exploring the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
With Duke Conservation Society, I recently had the opportunity to visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.
Monkeys are Kleptomaniacs: Hiking the MacRitchie Reservoir and Bukit Timah
When you first learn about morality, you learn that stealing is wrong. Macaques have no morals.
Navigating Singapore’s SEAnic Port
Four-hundred feet above tiny Singapore, we gaze out onto a green Pacific dotted with cargo ships as far as the eye can reach. Below, an industrial scene stretches infinitely westward, where crimson and navy shipping containers stacked one upon the other create a colorblocked maze, and the green silhouettes of cranes loom above the horizon.