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What It’s Like to Live in the Amazon for Three Weeks
For three weeks in July, Gleeson and her team — led by Brian Griffiths, an assistant teaching professor in the Earth Commons, and in conjunction with the Amazon Center for…
August 15, 2023
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This Is Summer on the Hilltop
We’ve been busy this summer. We welcomed students for pre-orientation programs, broke ground on new construction projects, gardened and spruced up our grounds, and found ways…
August 10, 2023
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Turns out, dolphins use baby talk just like us
What’s the trick to getting a baby dolphin’s attention? Turns out it’s not too different from getting a human baby to look your way. After three decades of research,…
August 7, 2023
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Electrocution Isn’t the Main Thing Killing Birds Along Power Lines
A survey of power lines in four Western states found bullet fragments and shotgun pellets in most of the dead birds that were.…
August 3, 2023
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After a Trip to the Yucatan, Undergraduates Find Their Plans Shaken Up
We’re bringing students to different international sites to give them hands-on experiences with environment and sustainability issues and empower them to see the world and our…
August 1, 2023
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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