Tag: Environment
Stretch of major London road closed after watermain break: City hall
Drivers are being asked to avoid a section of Highbury Avenue between Fuller Street and Kilally Road in northeast London after a watermain break on Saturday. Repairs are ongoing and city crews were on site, city hall officials said in a statement issued on Saturday afternoon. “Crews are working to reopen the roadway as quickly […]
She Wanted To Write Fantasy. Now, She Is Rewriting Recycling.
Meet Taylor Uekert, the Gymnast-Turned-Nanoengineer Who Harnesses Molecular Machines To Remake Plastics, Chemicals, and More By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR Three days after 9-year-old Taylor Uekert moved to the foothills outside San Diego, her parents woke her and her brother in the middle of the night. “Get up and get to the car,” … [continued]
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Flesherton high school gets $15,000 to boost high-tech biology program
Flesherton’s Grey Highlands Secondary School received a $15,000 grant for a high-tech biodiversity monitoring program. The grant is from The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group’s Learning Engagement and Accelerator Fund (L.E.A.F.) and will be used to launch H2-Oh! What’s in the Water? — a program engaging secondary school students in biodiversity monitoring with environmental DNA (eDNA). […]
Leading US Seaport Will Trial Fuel Cell Electric Trucks
Regardless of the abrupt U-turn in federal energy policy, state-level policy makers are still determined to clean up the polluted air in and around the nation’s seaports, and that includes replacing diesel fuel with electric trucks. One particularly high profile project will get under way early next year, featuring half … [continued]
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What’s The Connection Between Soils & Climate Change?
Five years ago the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned that human pressures on the systems of land, soils, and fresh water were intensifying, just when they were being pushed to their productive limits. The majority of pressures were derived from agriculture, including the increase in … [continued]
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