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Global warming clouds our future. Pollution degrades our air, soil and water. Environmental toxins compromise the health of our children. Misuse threatens the sustainability of our forests, fisheries, wetlands and coasts, and the health of species that live there.

But there is reason for hope.

Through sound science and policy research, we're finding answers to these problems. Airborne lead and acid rain have been dramatically reduced. Industrial water pollution has decreased. Habitats are being preserved.

Faculty members from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University are part of the effort to help find these answers and establish new environmental practices and policies to safeguard our natural resources for generations to come.

To contact our experts or learn more about what we're doing in states across the nation, click on the state you're interested in.

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Wisconsin
Land Use & Urban Sprawl
The 64,000-square mile Chesapeake Bay watershed is home to more than 15 million people in three states: Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Another 3 million are expected to move there by 2020. To protect its ecologically sensitive coastal regions from urban sprawl, Maryland has joined the two other states in an unprecedented agreement to protect 1.6 million acres around the bay and restore 25,000 acres of wetlands by 2010. This agreement is an example of how policy makers, citizens, developers and government agencies can work together to create sensible strategies that combine economic growth and land conservation.

 

 

Contact Information

Kathi Beratan studies the nature and magnitude of the impact of human activity and land uses on watersheds.
 tel: (919) 681-3529  e: kberatan@duke.edu