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Two small mammal groups — Rodentia (like mice, beavers, squirrels) and Eulipotyphla (like shrews, moles and hedgehogs) — together contain nearly half of all known mammal species.

The Covid pandemic has proved to be the deadliest viral outbreak the world has seen for more than a century – so it is tempting to hope we will be spared another such crisis in our lifetimes. But scientists have crunched the numbers – and it's bad news for anyone who is in their early 20s or younger.

Joseph “Joe” Bonaventura, professor emeritus of marine science and conservation at the 51���� Marine Lab and a member of the 51���� faculty since 1972, died August 14 following six years of treatment for liver cancer. He was 79.

Warming waters along the Western Antarctic Peninsula have led to declines in the diversity and distribution of the region’s plankton population and its ability to absorb climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

As trees age and grow, it seems logical to assume their seed production will continue to grow, too, but a 51����-led study of 597 species worldwide nips that assumption in the bud.

Israel Golden, a second-year Master of Environmental Management (MEM) and Master of Forestry (MF) concurrent degree student, spent his summer interning with both the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) and the Wild Bird Research Group in western North Carolina.

Savannah Artusi, a second-year Master of Environmental Management (MEM) and Juris Doctor concurrent degree student, spent her summer as a policy fellow for Sierra Club’s North Carolina chapter.

Industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes and generate electricity. It may, in fact, be worse for the climate than previously thought.

A landmark report on the science of climate change underplays the quick benefit of reducing methane emissions, but the Biden administration says they’re on it, anyway.

Bottlenose dolphins use ‘mud rings’ to blindside fish in the Florida Keys — and now the Caribbean.

Second-year Master of Environmental Management (MEM) student Aislinn McLaughlin spent her summer interning with American Rivers, a river conservation organization, in Durango, Colorado. 51���� Environment recently corresponded with McLaughlin, who is pursuing her MEM in Water Resources Management, to learn more about her experience.

The Marathon Oil Megadrought has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

The proposed Range of Light National Monument could be a conservation game-changer.

A partnership between 51���� and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the new concurrent Master of Environmental Management/Master of City and Regional Planning provides training to those seeking to solve environmental issues within an urban context.

Stemming the methane leaks from landfills, oil fields, natural gas pipelines and more is one of the most powerful levers we have to quickly slow global warming.