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by Jaime Gordon
Duke Law professor Michelle Nowlin is making waves in North Carolina’s hog industry. Now a Supervising Attorney at Duke’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Nowlin started her work in the mid 90s at…
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by Alyssa Vinluan
After a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call and a two-hour boat ride with Roctopus Dive, I could finally see the pinnacle of Sail Rock, considered by many as the best dive site in the Gulf of Thailand. The water looked…
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by Laurel Mundy
I grew up drawing animals. Birds, bugs, whales, my cat, anything you can think of, including animals that didn’t exist. My best friend and I would sit for hours doing nothing else.
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by Dan Hawkins
On the morning of January 19, 2017, I found myself in the Tararua Mountains on New Zealand’s North Island, in a gale. I had been in New Zealand for two months as part of a four-month hiking traverse of…
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by Ryan Huang
Life as a bird is hard. Life as a seabird can be really hard. Seabirds spend the vast majority of their time in a habitat that provides no drinkable water or shelter, a place that can be as vast and empty…
Read more![Peru’s Chaparrí Conservation Area: A Wildlife Reserve in the Tumbesian Dry Forests](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Perus Chaparrí Conservation Area/Chaparri%20entrance-400x400.80cd3c3b.jpg)
by Maddie Southard
Named for the mountain that dominates the landscape, the Chaparrí Conservation Area is located about 50 miles east of the Pacific coast in northern Peru.
Read more![How Biodiversity is Helping to Revitalize Coal Country](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Coal Country/FEATURE_photo%203_smith_edit.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Wally Smith
It's a cold November morning as I drive from my home in rural Wise County, Virginia, to the town of Tazewell, some 80 miles away. My journey takes me across the edge of the Virginia coalfields and through…
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by Jacqueline Gerson
“Dip your hand in the water!” I yelled over the crash of whitewater, and then a few seconds later, “Now try it again!”
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by Vanina Harel
Small island developing states around the world are the first to suffer the consequences of climate change, rapid population growth and unsustainable economic pressures. These problems can negatively affect…
Read more![Florida's Manatee - No Longer an Endangered Species](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/The Florida Manatee/manatee%204.dc5991f3.jpg)
by Maddie Southard
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) just reclassified one of Florida’s most iconic endangered wildlife species to “threatened” status. This controversial decision was made despite the fact that…
Read more![Connecting with Biodiversity Using Macro Photography](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Connecting with Biodiversity/Cicanese%20Thumbnail.58051782.png)
by Matthew Cicanese
In a 2013 article published by American Entomologist, a trio of authors contemplated the importance of macro photography in documenting biodiversity. In their abstract, they summarize: "Digital macrophotography…
Read more![Too Rare to Wear: Stopping Illegal Trade of Hawksbill Turtle Products](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/Too Rare to Wear/Too%20Rare%20To%20Wear.31d79840.png)
by Georgia Woodroffe
The Too Rare to Wear campaign brings tourist and conservation groups together to end the trade of illegal tortoiseshell products. Also called turtleshell, this material comes from hawksbill sea turtles,…
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