The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked No. 21 globally and No. 3 nationally in the 2019 Universitas Indonesia (UI) GreenMetric World University Rankings. The annual GreenMetric Ranking ranks campus sustainability worldwide. The 2019 survey was the largest … Read more
Sometimes the most powerful things in life are those we can’t see. Atoms. Oxygen. Love. Radio waves. Faith. And the internet. What appears in your web browser is just the top layer of the sprawling, invisible tangle of pathways and protocols that makes a worldwide network of electronic … Read more
On a shelf in Erika Wise’s office sits a foot-long specimen, only about half a centimeter in width. Marked by alternating shades of rich amber and sepia, this unassuming sample is a tree core and contains about 300 years-worth of … Read more
ABOVE: A colony of cyanobacteria from Lake Stechlin PROF HANS-PETER GROSSART. Cyanobacteria are found in almost all aquatic and terrestrial environments on Earth and, through photosynthesis, supply a large portion of the planet’s oxygen. According to a study published in … Read more
MOREHEAD CITY – Sandbar Oyster Company has learned to embrace climate change while also working to fight it to help the living shorelines off the coast of North Carolina. Dr. Niels Lindquist, a researcher at the UNC Institute of Marine … Read more
There is a very big gap in the hard sciences between learning those sciences and communicating them well with people,” said Sydney Thomas, a junior biologymajor. A College of Arts & Sciences course called the Changing Coasts of Carolina aims … Read more
University of North Carolina undergraduates at coastal campuses spent the fall semester undertaking projects to answer pressing environmental questions, making their capstone presentations in December. This is the second of two reports stemming from presentations on water quality. Read the … Read more
More than half of Earth’s rivers freeze over every year. These frozen rivers support important transportation networks for communities and industries located at high altitudes. Ice cover also help to regulate the amount of greenhouse gasses released from rivers into … Read more
More than half of Earth’s rivers freeze over every year. These frozen rivers support important transportation networks for communities and industries located at high latitudes. Ice cover also regulates the amount of greenhouse gasses released from rivers into Earth’s atmosphere. … Read more
Many communities and industries utilize frozen rivers for transportation purposes during the heart of the winter, but new research suggests the planet’s rivers are likely to spend fewer and fewer days frozen solid each year as temperatures continue to rise.
