Page 3 - Ryan Emanuel News Today

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.

When Dr. Brittany Hunt returned to Duke as a staff member earlier this year, it felt restorative for her. Hunt, a 2012 Duke alumna and member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, felt lonely at

‘Our Great National Parks’ overly idealizes U.S. conservation efforts and gives a mealymouthed call to climate action

Long home to industrial hog facilities, North Carolina has seen a huge increase in large-scale poultry farms, with more than 1,000 added in 2020 alone. The state scarcely regulates poultry operations, which threaten groundwater and waterways in low-wealth communities.


Incoming faculty member Ryan Emanuel T'99: "Indigenous peoples have spent centuries or in some cases millennia studying, stewarding and thriving in their lands. In many cases, they are the original practitioners of environmental science."

The study used data to show that socially vulnerable communities have significantly higher natural gas pipeline densities and are therefore exposed to more pollution and health and safety issues.

A new nation-wide analysis shows that counties with higher social vulnerability are home to a denser web of natural gas pipelines.

  The base map from the CDC shows the degree of social vulnerability by county. The dark blue areas are the most socially vulnerable and the light green is the least. The overlay of the red line represents the approximate route of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate project. It would traverse two socially vulnerable counties — Rockingham and Alamance — as well as part of Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation tribal lands, north of Burlington. Four academic researchers, including Ryan Ema...

Counties with more socially vulnerable populations have a higher density of natural gas pipelines overall, according to a new analysis. The findings suggest counties that are more socially vulnerable are also at greater risk of facing water and air pollution, public health and safety issues, and other negative impacts associated with the pipelines. “We know that the network, as it stands today, is already distributed in such a way that any negative impacts fall disproportionately on vulnerabl...

New research published in Geohealth from a team of North Carolina State University researchers reports that counties with more socially vulnerable populati | Earth And The Environment