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(Cornell Chronicle) Novel bird distribution maps combine the Protected Areas Database of the United States with bird observations from eBird.org, a citizen-science project of the Cornell Lab and National Audubon Society. The Cornell Institute for Computational Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and DataONE helped lead the analyses....7/13 |
(Newswise) MATERIALS – Moving toward nanorobots... ENERGY – Boost for industry... MATERIALS – New band magnetism... CHEMISTRY – Clean energy production...COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY – Converting biomass....7/13 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) The "Most Efficient" initiative continues Energy Star's work to provide consumers with the best efficiency information so they can make investments that will lower their energy bills and environmental impact....7/14
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The planned expansion of the Bull Run footprint is part of TVA's decision in 2009 to shut down all wet coal-ash storage areas at its coal-fired plants. That move came after the disastrous coal-ash spill in December 2008 at Kingston Fossil Plant....7/15 |
National
(Washington Post) President Obama prepared Thursday to bring bipartisan talks over the debt to a close, as Senate leaders worked across party lines to craft an alternative strategy to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit and avert a government default....7/15
State & Regional
(Tennessean) Nuclear plants around the country need improvement in several areas, including the monitoring of highly radioactive spent fuel pools and the ability to respond in emergencies....7/14 |
(New York Times) Alpha males may hold power and attract females, but a study of baboon troops in Kenya shows they also have very high levels of stress....7/15
(Wired) Of all mankind's impacts on nature, perhaps none is more pervasive than the systematic elimination of large animals. Of those that lived 20,000 years ago, many are gone....7/15