The first round of University-Wide Collaboration Grants on Climate Change will fund eight Duke University faculty teams to lay the groundwork for new research on climate change and its impacts. The teams will investigate topics including planetary engineering, climate justice, low-carbon heating and cooling methods, lithium mining, agricultural histories, coastal resilience, and the impacts of extreme weather on forest ecosystems.
Progress roundup: Hong Kong bans ivory trade, Costa Rica’s camera traps prove success of habitat protections, and the new “Great Blue Wall” of the Indian Ocean.
After she collected a set of camera traps from the ridgeline above Corcovado National Park, conservation biologist Eleanor Flatt said that scientists, staff, and tourists all huddled around her computer at the Punta Marenco Lodge to see what images were captured. Camera traps, remote cameras triggered by motion, can be set off by something as […]
Researchers spent four years collecting elephant waste in the forests of Gabon in Central Africa. They used DNA to find out that there are 40 percent more elephants than they expected.