(AP) -- The head of the Federal Communications Commission thinks he has come up with a way to salvage his ambitious national broadband plans without running into legal obstacles that have threatened to derail him.
Telecom
May 6, 2010
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. voted last week to start a process to formulate rules that could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to uphold six principles that would preserve net neutrality, ...
Organisms across the globe are facing unprecedented levels of stress from climate change, habitat destruction, and many other human-driven changes to the environment. Predicting and mitigating the effects of this increasing ...
Ecology
Aug 17, 2023
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An improved global understanding of river temperature could provide an important barometer for climate change and other human activities.
Environment
Feb 22, 2023
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Climate change has undisputable global effects on ecosystems and ecological community compositions, but why certain communities are better able to resist the effects of climate change than others remains unclear. In a recent ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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Few of us realize that listening to music on Spotify or watching Netflix or YouTube releases CO2 in the process. Online services use data stored on servers in data centers, and they guzzle energy. Physicist Remko Fermin researched ...
Superconductivity
Nov 30, 2022
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Consuming sustainably sourced wild meat instead of domesticated livestock reduces greenhouse gas emissions and retains precious tropical forest systems, which in turn mitigates the effects of climate change.
Environment
Oct 7, 2021
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Researchers have developed a method to estimate the value of oyster and clam aquaculture to nitrogen reduction in a coastal community. Nitrogen is a nutrient that comes from many different sources, including agriculture, ...
Environment
Feb 24, 2021
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Tropical forest ecosystems are an important part of the global carbon cycle as they take up and store large amounts of CO2. It is, however, uncertain how much this ability differs between forests with high versus low species ...
Environment
Mar 19, 2020
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Over the past 20 years, more than 6000 studies have used one of the most common classes of biodiversity modeling, species distribution models (SDMs). Over half of the studies using SDMs sought to apply their results to at ...
Ecology
Jan 16, 2019
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