Great Lakes Echo

‘Dig in and get my hands dirty’: New book explores citizen scientists and their contributions to the Wolf-Moose Project

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By Isabella Figueroa

In his new book “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project,” Jeffery Holden turns decades of volunteer field notes and short essays into an off-trail narrative about the people who sustain one of ecology’s longest-running studies. The Wolf-Moose Project at Isle Royale National Park started with scientists from Purdue University, Durward Allen and L. David Mech, in 1958. Since then, volunteers have collected data through on-the-ground fieldwork and built a six-decade record that reveals how climate, disease and food availability shape population cycles.

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Clean Technica Climate change Health

China’s Electric Highways: Awe, Engineering, and the Myths of Invisible Danger

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Keith Bradsher’s recent New York Times article on China’s ultra-high-voltage transmission grid is an impressive piece of reporting in scope and ambition. It captures the sheer physical magnitude of what China has built: hundreds of thousands of kilometers of high-voltage corridors, connecting wind, solar, hydro, and coal resources spread across … [continued]

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Nevada’s Lost Sunlight: What Esmeralda 7 Tells Us About America’s Energy Future

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When the Bureau of Land Management quietly changed a single line on its website this month, almost nobody noticed. There was no press conference, no formal announcement, no congressional testimony. Yet with that edit, one of the largest clean energy projects in the world ceased to exist. Esmeralda 7, a … [continued]

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