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June 16, 2011
Mining Beneath the Sea
If mountaintop mining were being conducted 1600 meters under the ocean – where very few people would ever see it – would it make any difference?
Well, it just might, says Cindy Lee Van Dover, director of the Duke Marine Lab and one of the world's authorities on the unique life forms surrounding deep sea hydrothermal vents.
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March 28, 2011
Why We Study Chimpanzees
“Why do people do something that benefits someone else but is detrimental to themselves?” Ian Gilby asked during a panel discussion, March 24. “Chimps are one of the few animals that do this really frequently,” he said.
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March 28, 2011
Putting Values on Resources
“Unless you know that [a resource] is going to be in your family for a very long time, you usually don’t manage it sustainably,” evolutionary anthropology professor Thomas Struhsaker said during a panel discussion, March 25.
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January 28, 2011
The EPA at 40
By Becca Bayham, Nicholas 2012
Most birthday parties include presents, or at least cake. However, the Jan. 24 “party” at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens was far from typical: attendees were celebrating the 40th birthday of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the EPA’s honor, 16 speakers offered their prospective and retrospective opinions on the extraordinary influence the EPA has had on our environmental health since its creation in 1970.
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November 12, 2010
The Alarming Extinction of Species
“When we think of extinction, we refer to dinosaurs and dodos. We don’t digest the concept of extinction in present day," said television host and conservationist Jeff Corwin, during a talk at Duke on Thursday.
He was here to talk about the state of conservation of natural resources in the 21st century.
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November 4, 2010
Not Bad for a Swamp, eh?
When I think of Canada, I imagine beavers, maple syrup, hockey, and locals adding “eh?” to the end of their sentences. When McGill University's Tim Moore thinks of Canada, however, he imagines carbon cycles in the peatlands.
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October 28, 2010
Think Global - Fish Local
“For the first time in our history, our food isn’t nourishing us. It’s killing us.”
That’s the warning Niaz Dorry issued to attendees of her recent talk at Duke on fishing policies, titled “Who Fishes Matters.”
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October 15, 2010
Lemur play is on solid ground
Unless it leads to sex, adult male primates usually aren't very playful. Except if they’re Silky sifakas.
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September 9, 2010
Nanoscale is More Than Meets the Eye
Post by student-blogger Vansh Muttreja:
Although there are vast numbers of nanoparticles around us, it has taken a long time for the ‘nano’ revolution to come to light, Virginia Tech geoscientist Michael F.Hochella Jr., said in a Sept. 9 lecture sponsored by the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
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