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Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East By Marcus D. King
King...argues that all three insurgencies have weaponized the need for water to cause terror and advance their strategic goals. They have sought to take over water, …
August 22, 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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Energy Democracy in a Federal and Localist System: Georgetown Scholars Investigate a Crucial Component of Just Energy Governance in the Coming Decades
Foster and Chertoff explore how different levels of governmental regimes impact energy democracy, comparing how legal and policy levers (authorities, mandates, funding, and power…
June 20, 2023
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Pacific Garbage Patch gathering place for debris, life thanks to currents
Converging ocean currents bring floating life and garbage together Community science survey reveals abundance of sea creatures in the North Pacific “Garbage Patch” The North…
May 4, 2023
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Building Public Renewables in the United States
We propose a new Federal Public Power Program that would create a public option for renewable energy across the United States that can catalyze decarbonization and embed…
April 11, 2023
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Dr. Brian Griffiths, “Hunter territoriality creates refuges for threatened primates”
ECo Faculty Dr. Griffiths' new paper explores how the combination of territoriality and selection against primates creates refuges, mitigating the effects of sustained hunting…
March 3, 2023
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Dr. Marcus King, “Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East”
Drought, lack of access, poor quality … water supplies are in jeopardy across Africa and the Middle East. These same areas are rife with conflicts involving Islamic extremist…
February 27, 2023
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Isolating Microplastics from Biofilm Communities: Connecting Project-Based Learning & Research
While there is not yet a standardized and validated methodology for characterizing microplastics, the protocol developed in this study uses methods for isolating and observing…
February 7, 2023
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3D printing has untapped potential for climate mitigation in the cement sector
Cement-based construction 3D printing (C3DP) has the potential to be a climate solution by promoting cement decarbonization. Here we propose five policy actions that can guide…
February 3, 2023
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Spatiotemporal variation in hunting in a riverine indigenous community in the Amazon.
ECo faculty Dr. Brian Griffiths' latest paper uses participatory mapping data from Maijuna hunters to model spatiotemporal variation in hunting patterns through the seasons. Dr.…
February 1, 2023