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ECo Impact Awards: Project Progress

From pollinators to people to past populations, ECo Impact Award recipients are expanding scholarship on environment and sustainability at Georgetown University and beyond. In…

July 27, 2023

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Home Sweet…Garbage? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Teeming with Life.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is teeming with life. A dynamic group of organisms, from star-like jellies to industrious snails, is thriving within the immense mass of floating…

July 24, 2023

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Oppenheimer revealed the human and political sides of science

The "relationship between science and politics is a two-way street," says Toshihiro Higuchi, a professor of history at Georgetown University who studies the environmental impacts…

July 21, 2023

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Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous…

July 20, 2023

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Microplastics and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Abundance, Distribution, and Chemical Analyses in the Nash Run, an Urban Tributary to the Anacostia River (Washington, DC, USA)

This is the first study that shows the presence of microplastics in both water and sediment and the presence of specific polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediment at the same…

July 19, 2023

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Georgetown University Launches Platform to Navigate Laws Governing the Prevention of Infectious Disease Emergence Worldwide

Georgetown University announces the launch of Analysis and Mapping of Policies for all Emerging Infectious Diseases (AMP for EID), a first-of-its-kind policy platform to enhance…

July 19, 2023

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China’s Xi Rebuffs Kerry’s Call for Faster Climate Action

Mr. Kerry emerged late Wednesday from the lengthy negotiations in Beijing with no new agreements. In fact, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, insisted in a speech that China…

July 19, 2023

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Climate change is increasing our risk of exposure to disease

As Earth's climate changes, animals that carry diseases are shifting their habitats in response — and changing the risk of infectious disease as they go… "I think we’ve…

July 18, 2023

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An Unexpected Haven: North Pacific “Garbage Patch” Teems With Life

The North Pacific “Garbage Patch” is not only infamous for its plastic debris accumulation but also serves as a habitat for a multitude of marine species such as jellyfish,…

July 16, 2023

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John Kerry goes to China. Here are 5 things to watch.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry will fly to China this weekend in an attempt to rescue climate cooperation between the world’s two largest polluters…It’s not just public…

July 14, 2023