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            By Taiwo Adebayo The Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria>> Abubakar Salisu was terrified when he discovered arid sand in the middle of his farmland, rendering a broad strip unfit for crops. Now, extreme heat is killing his wheat before it is ready for ...
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By Jane Margolies The New York Times At its former headquarters in eastern Pennsylvania, Air Products had a neatly manicured lawn and boxwood hedges. But when the industrial gases company moved to nearby Allentown recently and erected a new office building, it tried something different. Rather th...
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NIH awarded $6.7M toward 14,000-square-foot building; officials fight misinformation on lab  This rendering shows Colorado State University’s planned bat research facility. PROVIDED BY CSU By Elizabeth Hernandez This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A one-of-a-kind bat research facility is headed to Color...
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Geodesic domes, other resilient designs are gaining new attention By Christopher Flavelle The New York Times John duSaint, a retired software engineer, recently bought property near Bishop, Calif., in a rugged valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The area is at risk for wildfires, severe daytime hea...
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“OFFSET SOME OF YOUR WASTE”   By Melina Walling The Associated Press DYSART, Iowa>> When Al Schafbuch cut back on plowing his Iowa fields decades ago and later began growing cover crops, he was out to save money on fertilizer and reduce erosion. He got those benefits and saw his soil ...
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By Jim Robbins The New York Times PABLO, Mont.>> In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years. Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declin...
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Posted by on in Human Health
           PANDEMIC By Emily Anthes The New York Times Humans transmitted the coronavirus to white-tailed deer more than 100 times in late 2021 and early 2022, according to new research led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Se...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
            By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> Some Republican members of Congress voiced opposition Thursday to the Biden administration’s recent move to withdraw hundreds of square miles of federal land in New Mexico from oil and gas d...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
A warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. June’s 61.79 degrees global ...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
By Julie McCluskie Guest Commentary We’ve reached the crisis point for the Colorado River and the future of the American Southwest. We need creative solutions for living with a river that contains less water yet has more demands for its limited supplies. As a resident of the high country, I know w...
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           ENVIRONMENT  By Hiroko Tabuchi The New York Times Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study has concluded, unless companies can al...
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Posted by on in Energy Efficiency
Cooperative teams up with Ameresco to add 78.3 megawatts of storage By Aldo Svaldi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Brighton-based United Power, the state’s largest electric cooperative, and Ameresco, a leading cleantech firm, are teaming up to install Colorado’s largest battery storage project to date. U...
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ENVIRONMENT  By Cara Buckley The New York Times Xiulin Ruan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, didn’t set out to make it into the Guinness World Records when he began trying to make a new type of paint. He had a loftier goal: to cool down buildings without torching the...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
  By Monika Pronczuk and Catrin Einhorn The New York Times European lawmakers, after an unexpectedly bitter political battle, approved a bill Wednesday that would require European Union countries to restore 20% of all degraded nature areas within their borders on land and at sea. The measur...
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By Linda Qiu The New York Times WASHINGTON>> The Agriculture Department said Wednesday that it would establish a monitoring and data collection network to measure greenhouse gas emissions and determine how much carbon can be captured using certain farming practices. The network, using $300 ...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
Gas stoves release benzene throughout home, By Noelle Phillips This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cooking with a gas stove in your kitchen can emit as much benzene into a home as second-hand tobacco smoke, depending on ventilation and the size of the house, according to new research from Stanford Unive...
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By Melina Walling The Associated Press Mily Trevino-Sauceda was 9 when her mother fell as she worked to move irrigation pipes along rows of potato and alfalfa on an Idaho farm. Mily’s 10-year-old brother splashed water over their mother’s face and body while her children looked on, scared and cryi...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Mike Ives The New York Times For years, meals at the summer sun dance ceremonies on the Eastern Shoshone Tribe’s lands in Wyoming were missing something that was once a staple of the sacred rituals. There was no presence of homegrown bison, an animal central to the spiritual customs and belief...
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Posted by on in Human Health
By Emily Anthes The New York Times The United States is home to an enormous array of animal industries — including industrial agriculture, fur farming and the exotic pet trade — that pose a significant risk of creating infectious disease outbreaks in humans, according to a new report by experts at...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
Increased moisture this year does not fix state’s water woes By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Colorado is drought-free for the first time since 2019 — a stark change from a year ago, when 98% of the state was under drought conditions. A winter filled with heavy snow and a cooler, wet...
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