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What’s Contaminating Our Once-Pristine Water Sources?
Clean water is vital to our health, communities, and economy. Streams and wetlands provide many benefits by trapping floodwaters, recharging groundwater supplies, filtering pollution, and providing habitat for fish and wildlife. People depend on clean water sources for their health: about 117 million US residents — one in three people … [continued]
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Endless Sunlight, Endless Costs: The Economic Reality of Space Solar Power
Space-based solar power is having another moment in the sun. The idea has been circulating for more than half a century, rising and fading with each new wave of optimism about technology’s ability to overcome gravity. The renewed excitement today stems from one thing: China has joined the conversation. When … [continued]
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New Agrivoltaic Solutions Keep Bubbling Up, Despite The Renewable Energy Clampdown
Despite the abrupt U-turn in federal energy policy, solar farming innovators continue to push the envelope on agrivoltaic practices that combine farm productivity with renewable energy generation, habitat restoration, and soil conservation.
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$50M cut from controversial mining project in new Michigan budget
$50 million dollars of funding to support a copper mine project has been cut from the new Michigan state budget. The mine has been incredibly controversial. It received support from economic developers and some local lawmakers, while other lawmakers as well as some environmental groups voiced concerns.
Unique Bruce Peninsula black bears focus of expert talk in Owen Sound
A renowned bear expert is making a stop in Owen Sound next week for a talk about the genetically isolated and unique population of black bears that call the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula home. Wildlife biologist Dr. Martyn Obbard, an emeritus research scientist with the Ministry of Natural Resources who studied both black bears and polar […]