Drought-ravaged Colorado River gets relief from snow, but long-term water crisis remains
Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal projections showed imminent risks of reservoirs dropping to dangerously low levels.
Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal projections showed imminent risks of reservoirs dropping to dangerously low levels.
Earth Sciences
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Apple Inc. and Walt-Disney Co. are among U.S. businesses that will face the steepest challenges in a "selective decoupling" from China, a key lawmaker said after a series of meetings with executives and experts in Hollywood ...
Economics & Business
Apr 10, 2023
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Dozens of critical habitat areas for threatened shorebirds will be protected after a U.S. District Court in Charleston handed down an order prohibiting three groups from harvesting horseshoe crabs on several of South Carolina's ...
Ecology
Apr 10, 2023
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These days, long-spined sea urchins are known as the gardeners of the sea. They tend the algae on the coral reefs they call home, making sure it never overwhelms their hosts. Spotting one on the Florida reef tract is a good ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 10, 2023
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The job market has never offered any guarantees. Mechanization wiped out once-secure careers in manufacturing. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for a future generation of jobs that had seemed safe, starting with ...
Economics & Business
Apr 10, 2023
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The massive Kepler survey found a treasure trove of exoplanets. But in all that wealth they found three anomalies: what appeared to be rings of dust surrounding stars where planets should be. They were rocky planets in the ...
Astronomy
Apr 10, 2023
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Three engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled on Polar bear fur. The results, published recently in the journal ACS ...
Materials Science
Apr 10, 2023
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Even though Brown v. Board of Education outlawed school segregation in 1954, racially segregated schools have persisted in practice. In recent years, the decades-long trend of white flight to suburbs has reversed in some ...
Education
Apr 10, 2023
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As teacher shortages continue to worsen across the United States, a new study at the University of Missouri gives insight into why so many stressed and burnt-out teachers are leaving the profession. The study found teachers ...
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2023
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In a pair of complementary studies, researchers took a close look at Luna moth (Actias luna) tails through the eyes of birds and female moths to test the tails' role in predation and sexual selection. Scientists have known ...
Evolution
Apr 10, 2023
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