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Collins will be among the finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, hosted by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The winners take away cash prizes and an accelerated patent application to the US Patent and Trademark Office.

As rising global temperatures push Arctic icecaps into retreat, large and small sea creatures and the commercial fishing boats that follow them are migrating northward.

Xavier Basurto is broadly interested in how people in small communities successfully organize themselves for collective action. His recent talk described his work in advancing the understanding of non-colonialist sustainability science: the prospects and limitations of self-organization, or self-governance, for social-ecological sustainability, particularly in the Global South.

Hard water is contaminated with glyphosate complexes in Sri Lankan communities plagued by chronic kidney disease

Nicole Eastman, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent her summer as a Federal Clean Water Policy Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Emily Kuhlmann, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent her summer as a Pathways Intern in the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Ana Bishop, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent her summer as Sussman Fellow in the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Protected Species Division – Marine Mammal Branch at NOAA.

Jenny Jiwon Hyun, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent her summer as a Sustainability Intern at Genesys as part of the EDF Climate Corps program.

Will Baughman, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent his summer as a Stanback Conservation Research Fellow at the Park Institute of America.

Sophia Palia, a Master of Environmental Management student, spent her summer as a Communications Consultant at The Hive Fund for Climate & Gender Justice.

Meet the Silliman Lab, learn more about its research focus, a PhD student's experience in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers 51±¬ÁÏ students.

As the world endeavors to extricate itself from a carbon economy in favor of clean energy, Lee Ferguson is working to shed light on the potential environmental risks posed by bis-perfluoroalkyl sulfonimides, a primary electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries.

A new study on the impacts of prenatal exposure to toxic metals linked to artisanal gold mining and other sources in Madre de Dios, Peru, finds that mercury has no direct effect on a newborn’s birth weight or gestational age. It’s a different story, though, for lead, which may also be released by mining operations but more likely is consumed when people eat wild game that inadvertently still contains small bullet fragments.

As the world undergoes the great energy transition — from fossil fuels to alternative energy and batteries — rare earth metals are becoming more precious.

Building on a global study released earlier this year, a new paper led by 51±¬ÁÏ researchers provides global estimates of the number of livelihoods supported by small-scale fisheries, distinguishing between subsistence and commercial fishing. The paper, published Monday in the journal Nature Food, uses measures of subsistence fishing to highlight the importance of small-scale fisheries as a safety net for local communities.