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A team of scientists led by 51���� researchers will set out to determine the risk offshore wind turbines could pose to birds, fish and marine mammals with the support of a U.S. Department of Energy grant.

51���� has received a $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to assess the risks offshore wind energy development along the East Coast may pose to birds, bats and marine mammals.

A new international study suggests that invasive species, such as the cordgrass that is swamping native plants in the Red Marshes, pose a much greater threat to protected areas, even well managed ones, than was previously recognized.

Incoming faculty member Ryan Emanuel T'99: "Indigenous peoples have spent centuries or in some cases millennia studying, stewarding and thriving in their lands. In many cases, they are the original practitioners of environmental science."

When scientists and activists make the case for phasing out fossil fuels, they often focus on the climate crisis: Stop burning coal, oil and natural gas, and we can prevent wildfires, droughts, heat waves and storms from continuing to get worse. But the catastrophic oil spill in Southern California over the weekend offered a stark reminder that the damage to human health and the natural world from powering society with fossil fuels is far greater than just a warming planet.

The massive wildfires in Australia that burned from 2019 into 2020 have had impacts far beyond the continent. Smoke from those fires drifted for thousands of kilometers and spurred the growth of phytoplankton — an algae bloom — in the southern Pacific Ocean. That's the finding of a new study in the journal Nature.

Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government on Wednesday declared them extinct.

As a Reimagining Doctoral Education (RiDE) Fellow, Sarah Roberts investigated ways the Nicholas School and the Graduate School can better meet doctoral graduates’ needs and prepare them for success.

Lori Bennear and Tim Johnson discussed two bills under consideration in Congress and their potential impact on the reduction of carbon emissions and more.

Our current approach to wildland fire management is setting us up to fail.

Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 triggered widespread algal blooms in the Southern Ocean thousands of miles downwind to the east, a new 51����-led study by an international team of scientists finds.

"My dissertation examines water management norms through the study of seawater desalination, the technological process that removes salts and minerals from saline water like the ocean to produce drinkable water. Often desalination is framed as a technical supply “solution” to the problem of water scarcity, which will affect 1.8 billion people by 2025. But desalination’s known downsides — such as its high financial costs, large energy needs, local community impact, and environmental harm to marine life — as well as its yet-to-be-seen effects make it socially, economically, environmentally, and politically contentious."

After a long record of university service, new Academic Council Chair Erika Weinthal takes office with a responsibility only one other Council chair has had before: Helping faculty and the university community create a robust academic and campus environment in the middle of a persistent pandemic.

Trillions of metallic nodules on the sea floor could help stop global heating, but mining them may damage ocean ecology.

Most people are likely to experience an extreme pandemic like COVID-19 in their lifetime, a new study shows.