Research News

No matter how clean our technologies become, people must be persuaded to use them to make a difference

CEE PhD student Shannon Plunkett recently won a “Best Student Paper” award for her work on mercury toxicity caused by artisanal gold mining

Take a deep dive into the flashiest secrets of this common but little understood natural phenomenon with leading researcher Steve Cummer.

Lee Ferguson and colleagues discover that the manufacturing and disposal of lithium ion batteries is a large and growing source of environmental contamination from a sub-class of so-called "forever chemicals"

Learn more about how engineering professor Laura Dalton is studying ways to make this cement more environmentally friendly as part of the Duke YouTube Series Why Do You Study That?

Statistical model adjusts temperature data and finds urban areas with few weather stations are even hotter than reported

A new research project led by Lisa Satterwhite looks to see how climate change has disproportionately affected rural areas of North Carolina through chronic exposure to harmful algal blooms.

Civil engineering is coming back into vogue in untraditional ways for students looking to solve global challenges

At a recent Duke University symposium moderated by Dean Jerry Lynch, experts exchanged ideas about accelerating sustainable infrastructure development

Learn how Lee Ferguson and other researchers across North Carolina are using a technology called mass spectrometry to protect our drinking water

An inside look into the joint elective program offered by the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Pratt School of Engineering

Duke symposium launches public-private research effort on managing climate risks