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"Scientists just figured out that thousands of air quality stations have been accidentally gathering invaluable DNA data on local organisms." Learn more 👇 wired.com/story/a-secret…

“Everything we thought we knew about the monarch population is wrong,”

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Here is the forest cover in France. ↳ 18th century vs. 20th century. Population in France grew from, 30 million → 60 million. Agricultural intensification is good. ↳ We should have more of it.

“Much of the €100m revenue generated by Kariba has been carved off along the way by the project developers in fees and expenses: ….In the end, only a maximum of €14m went to Kariba’s communities through cash transfers and infrastructure improvements.”

“climate and health scientists and advocates have no strategy to trigger political change. We do not understand how power is distributed and manipulated.”

With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

BARKING NEWS and BREAKING NEWS The Red Wolf Recovery Program recently announced the birth of a wild litter of red wolf pups!

Sarobidy's awesome research group has a website. Check out their fab work.

.allAfrica.com co-founders Reed Kramer Reed Kramer & Tami Hultman Tami Hultman were each honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the just concluded allAfrica Media Summit Leaders Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. Their Lifetime Achievement Awards were in recognition of their exceptional

Congrats to former Duke undergraduate & masters student Paul Ferraro Paul J. Ferraro on his selection as a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in recognition of his scholarly impact across several environmental fields Duke Environment Trinity College at Duke

Yale School of Management Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: There are no Fortune 500 CEOs who are supporting Trump...The Trump economic package frightens them. It's extremely inflationary...They'll be reluctant Biden voters. They don't want the fabric of

Sociologist Jess Calarco hit the nail on the head when she said: “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.” That, she argues, is a policy choice—and it's "leaving our whole society sicker, sadder, and more stressed." m-gat.es/3LlxBBH

Summer's not a break, it's a time to prep for next year's classes. And if you're not thinking hard about how AI requires changes in teaching (and assessment!) you're not thinking. In case it's helpful, here's a deck from a talk I gave a while ago to econ instructors. #TeachEcon

Netherlands to return 288 looted items to Indonesia, including artefacts taken from Bali after the 1906 war ow.ly/4avX50Tt2FS

Some thoughts and observations to the state and federal response to historic flooding in Western NC from Hurricane Helene Its not sinking in to outsiders, or it’s just so hard to comprehend that the countless roads in Western N.C. , simply no longer exist. The state and

nytimes.com/2024/10/03/cli… via The New York Times

For excellent coverage of what is happening with the rapid censorship of critically important, Federally funded, health data and climate data, I encourage you to go to Bluesky.social

I generally avoid this platform , but I want to share our team’s new research on climate change challenges facing smallholder farmers in northeast Madagascar. today.duke.edu/2025/03/heart-…