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Statistically Speaking: Tut, Tut, Looks Like …
Have you noticed it’s been rather wet out there? 2010 Was an Exceptional Year for Rainfall How so? The year 2010 saw its share of record-breaking deluges with the wettest regions includingmost of...
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Goodall — Not That Other ‘Wimpy Jane’— Comes to Town
A Dame of the British Empire speaks at Duke. Jane Goodall is an intellectual giant of our time. Through her 50-year study of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, the world-famous primatologist has...
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‘The Deadliest War’: An environmental connection
Violence has erupted again in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Human rights campaigner John Prendergast says the root cause is conflict minerals. Congo is back in the news. On November 20th after...
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Disappearing Habitat, Disappearing Lions
Lions finding so-called lion habitat not all that habitable. A paper out today in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation by Nicholas School graduate Jason Riggio (now at the University of...
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Linking Livelihoods to Lion Conservation
Bill Chameides is on vacation. He will be back in July. In December Bill wrote a blog post on the increasingly challenging conditions lions face in Africa. The supporting research was conducted by...
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Statistically Speaking: Elephants by the Numbers
Post updated 8/13/2013, 11:18 a.m. It’s World Elephant Day. (Who knew?!) Here’s a sober update on the ongoing saga of the proboscidian we call elephants. All is not rosy for the elephant. From Jean de...
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Starting to Suss Out Connections Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Scientists start to meet a “grand challenge” and none too soon. Whenever an extreme weather event occurs these days, the question almost inevitably asked is: Was it caused by global warming? For years,...
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Goats, Gills and Guts: Animals in the News
Our furry and scaly fellow subjects of the animal kingdom never cease to surprise and amaze. Consider these three fascinating stories ripped from this week’s headlines. Goats On the Rise Wednesday we...
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Statistically Speaking: A Wasteland of Food
The amount of food we waste is enough to make you sick … many times over. The latest installment [pdf] in the World Bank’s “Food Price Watch” series has just been released. If you’re a consumer — and...
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Taking a Stroll With E.O. Wilson
Illuminating the eternal through nature, and the humanity of an icon of science. To say that E.O. Wilson, arguably the greatest living biologist, is prolific is a bit of an understatement. At 84,...
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