Closing Duke's Herbarium: A fear of long-term climate commitment? dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…

The fate of the Duke Herbarium is upsetting, unsettling. “It’s obscene,” Hughes says.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/03/opi… via The Boston Globe

Doomsday vaults preserving nature in race against time bostonglobe.com/2024/04/03/opi… via The Boston Globe

Duke Made a Climate Commitment Two Years Ago. Is the University Following Through? indyweek.com/news/durham/du…

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Not a brilliant move to disband your herbarium in the middle of a biodiversity and global change crisis!
Duke Made a Climate Commitment Two Years Ago. Is the University Following Through? indyweek.com/news/durham/du…

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Closing Duke's Herbarium: A fear of long-term climate commitment? dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…
Duke Made a Climate Commitment Two Years Ago. Is the University Following Through? indyweek.com/news/durham/du…

Duke Made a Climate Commitment Two Years Ago. Is the University Following Through? indyweek.com/news/durham/du…

One herbarium’s thorny future: Duke to close century-old 'gem' of biodiversity research bpr.org/2024-04-08/duk…

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A Hundred Years of Climate Data Is on the Verge of Withering Away heatmap.news/climate/duke-h…

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Going 'gaga' over this video from Molly Edwards, PhD and the shout-out to Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦!

Worst-case scenario: Duke’s collection, in whole or in part, will end up in storage somewhere...they’ll be worthless in no time...unidentified plants and uncollected climate data, all of it could be lost and we wouldn’t even know what we are losing...

'Botanists estimate as much as half of the planet’s undiscovered flora could be found in herbaria backlogs.'

The world's botanical records are in danger. Jeva Lange 🫎 talks to Kathleen Pryer and Mason Heberling about the urgent need to preserve herbaria:

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Jeva Lange 🫎 Kathleen Pryer Mason Heberling “It’s a very sobering feeling to touch the leaves of a tree that doesn’t exist anymore,” notes Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝.

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More on the closure of the Duke Uni herbarium

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The fate of the Duke Herbarium is upsetting, unsettling. “It’s obscene,” Hughes says. The scientists racing against time msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

You know what would make it a bigger week Trinity College at Duke ? Not disbanding your herbarium in the middle of a biodiversity and global change crisis.

Duke University One herbarium’s thorny future: Duke to close century-old 'gem' of biodiversity research wfae.org/2024-04-08/duk…