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51���� Professor Bill Pan’s efforts in Central and Latin America aim to reduce disease and deforestation.

Long home to industrial hog facilities, North Carolina has seen a huge increase in large-scale poultry farms, with more than 1,000 added in 2020 alone. The state scarcely regulates the poultry industry and its waste, which threatens waters in low-wealth communities of color.

IFET is pleased to announce that Martin Smith, George M. Woodwell Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics at 51���� and current IIFET President, has been named Fellow of the International Institute of Fisheries Economic & Trade (IIFET).

Salt is poisoning soils past a point of no return for some marsh plants.

The gentle and expressive African forest elephant is a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and poaching. But according to a survey conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the National Parks of Gabon, these rare, non-predatory pachyderms have one “last stronghold offering a large quasi-continuous habitat” in Gabon.

New research quantifies the costs associated with pandemic outbreaks and the tools we need to fend off the next one. “Our salvation comes cheap,” the lead author said.

Finding the next deadly virus and preventing a rat, bat or monkey from spreading it to people should be the primary focus of the world’s efforts to stop the next pandemic, a group of international researchers pleads in a study.

Investing tens of billions of dollars now in programs that enhance environmental protection and boost early-stage wildlife disease surveillance could reduce the risk of future animal-to-human pandemics by up to half and save millions of lives and trillions of dollars in losses annually.

Using satellite images, scientists have detected hundreds of very large and previously unreported methane releases at oil and natural gas production sites across the globe.

The climate crisis is imminent. What’s the solution? Experts at 51����’s annual Research Week posed their research-based solutions during a virtual panel.

Latest study underscores how satellites are exposing emission sources around the globe. ‘It’s a harbinger of what’s to come,’ one expert says.

Experts at 51����’s annual Research Week posed their research-based solutions to the imminent climate crisis during a virtual panel.

A new initiative is putting a new emphasis on climate change in the curriculum, faculty and student research, campus policy and student life. "What we have to address is how do we, as one of the premier universities in the world, rise to the occasion that this moment now demands from us?” said Nicholas School Dean Toddi Steelman.

Six 51���� undergraduates have been selected to participate in the university’s Repass-Rodgers Scholars Program.

2014 marked the first time more than half of global ocean surface recorded temperatures considered extreme compared to a historical average