Duke Today Schools Feed https://today.duke.edu/ en Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:49:20 -0500 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:49:41 -0500 Let‘s Talk about Climate Change Course at Duke Kunshan https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/lets-talk-about-climate-change-course-duke-kunshan <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Duke Kunshan is offering a new course, Let’s Talk About Climate Change, for all undergraduates at the university.</p><p>This course, modeled after the Duke course of the same name, is part of the Duke-DKU climate commitment and uses a blended, interdisciplinary approach to raise awareness of climate change in all fields of study. Professors from natural science, social science, and arts and humanities worked together to design it.</p><p>Read more on the</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/lets-talk-about-climate-change-course-duke-kunshan Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:49:41 -0500 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Duke Kunshan University|Sustainability Duke Experts and Students Head to COP Climate Change Conference https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/duke-experts-and-students-head-cop-climate-change-conference <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-columns-25-75"><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-25"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-75"><p></p></div></div> Nicholas Institute for Energy https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/duke-experts-and-students-head-cop-climate-change-conference Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:01:26 -0500 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability|Politics & Public Policy Infectious Fungi Are Loving Global Warming https://today.duke.edu/2024/10/infectious-fungi-are-loving-global-warming <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Climate change has the potential to make fungi even more hazardous to our health, according to research at Duke University. <a href="https://scholars.duke.edu/person/asiya.gusa">Asiya Gusa</a>'s climate change research focuses on how warming temperatures affect fungal diseases, particularly Cryptococcus. Her team found that higher temperatures increase the fungus’s mutation rate, helping it survive. </p><p>With more drug-resistant fungi emerging because of</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/10/infectious-fungi-are-loving-global-warming Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:21:42 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Faculty|Molecular Genetics and Microbiology|School of Medicine Climate Change Is Bringing New Health Threats, and the School of Medicine Has a Strategy https://today.duke.edu/2024/09/climate-change-bringing-new-health-threats-and-school-medicine-has-strategy Dean Dr. Mary Klotman and Robert Tighe discuss the school’s new climate change research plan Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/09/climate-change-bringing-new-health-threats-and-school-medicine-has-strategy Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:35:30 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Department of Medicine|Faculty|School of Medicine Picturing the Anthropocene https://today.duke.edu/2024/08/picturing-anthropocene New Nasher Museum exhibit presents photography of our changing environment Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/08/picturing-anthropocene Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:31:16 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Nasher Museum of Art|Sustainability New National Heat Strategy ‘A Game Changer,’ Experts Say https://today.duke.edu/2024/08/new-national-heat-strategy-game-changer-experts-say <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>A new <a href="https://cpo.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/National_Heat_Strategy-2024-2030.pdf">National Heat Strategy</a> to coordinate federal agency work on heat planning, response and resilience is a crucial step forward in addressing the impacts of extreme heat, two Duke scholars said this week.</p><p>The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) unveiled the initiative Wednesday.</p><p>“Federal leadership is crucial for addressing the growing impacts of extreme heat on</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/08/new-national-heat-strategy-game-changer-experts-say Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:20:22 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability|Politics & Public Policy Current heat warning systems are woefully inadequate in an age of climate change https://today.duke.edu/2024/08/current-heat-warning-systems-are-woefully-inadequate-age-climate-change <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-columns-25-75"><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-25"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-75"><p></p></div></div> Stat Magazine https://today.duke.edu/2024/08/current-heat-warning-systems-are-woefully-inadequate-age-climate-change Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:17:05 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Faculty|Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability|Politics & Public Policy Duke Partnership Will Advise States on $431M Effort to Reduce Carbon Emissions https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/duke-partnership-will-advise-states-431m-effort-reduce-carbon-emissions <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-columns-25-75"><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-25"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-75"><p></p></div></div> Nicholas Institute for Energy https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/duke-partnership-will-advise-states-431m-effort-reduce-carbon-emissions Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:16:40 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Faculty|Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability|Politics & Public Policy What Happens When We Fish Too Much https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/what-happens-when-we-fish-too-much Overfishing and climate change are affecting marine ecosystems and the people who depend on them. Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/what-happens-when-we-fish-too-much Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:43:42 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Marine Science and Conservation|Nicholas School of the Environment|students, graduate and professional Ocean’s Loss of Oxygen Caused Massive Jurassic Extinction. Could it Happen Again? https://today.duke.edu/2024/06/oceans-loss-oxygen-caused-massive-jurassic-extinction-could-it-happen-again <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-columns-25-75"><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-25"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-75"><p></p></div></div> Nicholas School of the Environment https://today.duke.edu/2024/06/oceans-loss-oxygen-caused-massive-jurassic-extinction-could-it-happen-again Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:11:32 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Climate Change|Earth and Ocean Sciences|Faculty Advancement|Nicholas School of the Environment