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Honorary Western University professor shares in Nobel Prize win
An honorary professor of economics at Western University is among a group of three researchers who won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday that Peter Howitt, along with Dutch-born Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion of France, received the prize for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth.” Reached […]
Hundreds gather in Rome to welcome the Seneca Chief, celebrate Erie Canal bicentennial
Hundreds gathered in Rome, New York, the birthplace of the Erie Canal, to welcome the Seneca Chief, a full-scale replica of the original vessel that carried New York Governor, DeWitt […]
Sequestering All That CO2 … In Macroalgae
Without a doubt, we need to install more clean, renewable energy and get more electric vehicles on the road in order to stop heating up the Earth. However, we need more than that now because we’ve already added too many greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. We all know that, but … [continued]
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Local Florida Governments Sue DeSantis Over Laws That Block Climate Action
Want to guess what it takes for a county commissioner to be threatened with removal from public office in Florida Let it be known that you’re considering measures meant to enhance disaster resilience on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Governor Ron DeSantis — the Republican who led the charge to remove references … [continued]
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‘Dig in and get my hands dirty’: New book explores citizen scientists and their contributions to the Wolf-Moose Project
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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