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Levels of Air Toxics decreasing across US Cities
Posted: August 23, 2014More and more people are living in our cities. They are great places to live, exciting, good jobs, great night life, but also sometimes congestion and unhealthy air quality. The…
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Caesars installing EV charging stations
Posted: August 22, 2014Caesars Entertainment Plans to Widely Expand Vehicle Station Network Across the Country, Encouraging a Future of Green Transportation. Across the Country, Encouraging a Future of Green Transportation. Relax and recharge…
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Drought Causes Western US to Rise
Posted: August 22, 2014Severe drought affecting the western United States in recent years is not only influencing water restrictions for residence and creating problems for crops and wildlife, but it’s changing the landscape…
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Fracking’s Chemical Cocktails
Posted: August 22, 2014Fracking is once again in trouble. Scientists have found that what gets pumped into hydrocarbon-rich rock as part of the hydraulic fracture technique to release gas and oil trapped in…
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Grizzly Bears in the North Cascades
Posted: August 22, 2014The National Park Service this week took an important step toward recovering grizzly bears in the North Cascades in Washington state. The agency says it is beginning a three-year process…
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How does CO2 go from Permafrost into the atmosphere?
Posted: August 21, 2014The vast reservoir of carbon stored in Arctic permafrost is gradually being converted to carbon dioxide (CO2) after entering the freshwater system in a process thought to be controlled largely…
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Study shows sunlight, not microbes dominate CO2 production in Arctic
Posted: August 21, 2014Just how much Arctic permafrost will thaw in the future and how fast heat-trapping carbon dioxide will be released from those warming soils is a topic of lively debate among…
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NASA reports unknown source of banned ozone-destroying compound
Posted: August 21, 2014NASA research has revealed the Earth’s atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source decades after the compound was banned worldwide. Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4),…
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University of Illinois studying bee venom as cancer treatment
Posted: August 21, 2014Another reason to love bees: they might be able to help us fight cancer. While venom isn’t usually known as a friendly thing, new research shows that venom from bees,…
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Turning Jellyfish into Sustainable Medical Products
Posted: August 20, 2014In a United Nations report released in May, scientists worldwide were called upon to join the war on jellyfish. According to the report, jellyfish have overwhelmed the marine ecosystem as…
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