The Hudson River Eel Project—which has netted, counted and released roughly 2 million juvenile eels since its inception in 2008—owes its success to a cadre of nearly 1,000 high school, college and adult citizen scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2024
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On a cold night in November, a small group gathered at the boathouse of the Brooklyn-based Gowanus Dredgers to listen to Elizabeth Case, a glaciologist and Ph.D. student at Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2023
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In flood-prone areas of New York state, non-white homeowners are more likely than white homeowners to take active, sometimes-costly measures—such as finding a way to protect a furnace, a water heater or installing a sump ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2023
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People tend to laugh when I tell them that my job after college was catching fish out of the Hudson River. As someone who lacks the particular brand of outdoorsy-ness fitting to this job, it seems like an unlikely position ...
Ecology
Nov 3, 2022
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An adhesive tape patented by Staffordshire University researchers to recover trace evidence from crimes scenes is being adopted to analyze microplastics more efficiently.
Environment
Jul 21, 2021
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A sea lamprey has no jaw, no proper teeth and no bones. Yet this predator can attach like a suction cup to a fish 100 times its size, use its tongue to burrow a hole into its side, liquefy its tissues and eat it.
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2020
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Sturgeon were America's vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation's rivers until mankind's craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction.
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2019
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A trade group representing hundreds of airlines is renewing its push for additional pilot training and coordination among global aviation regulators to ensure that the Boeing 737 Max is safe before it is allowed to fly again ...
Other
Jun 27, 2019
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Airline union leaders and a famed former airline pilot said Wednesday that Boeing made mistakes while developing the 737 Max, and the biggest was not telling anybody about new flight-control software so that pilots could ...
Other
Jun 19, 2019
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Silicon Valley is becoming Silicon Nation.
Business
Dec 18, 2018
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