Red tide found off Florida's southwest coast; birds sick
Red tide is back in the waters off of Florida's southwest coast, making birds sick and killing fish, according to a state environmental agency update on Wednesday.
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Natural resources governance: Responsibilization of citizens or forcing responsibility on them?
The possibilities of citizens to participate in natural resource governance are increasing. Responsive and collaborative models of natural resource governance can open up new opportunities, but can also lead to unreasonable ...
Environment
Nov 30, 2020
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Hunger is not a lack of food, but rather solitude in Mentawai
How can people say they are hungry when they have enough food at their disposal? On the Indonesian island of Siberut, the term 'hungry' does not just refer to the lack of food, but above all the absence of social contacts ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2020
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10 ways to provide adequate housing in the COVID-19 era
COVID-19 is a health, social, economic and political emergency. It is also a housing emergency.
Social Sciences
Nov 24, 2020
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The persistent problem of 1,4-dioxane in water
Of the many chemicals that can pollute the world's water supplies, 1,4-dioxane is one of the most persistent. Listed as a likely carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 1,4-dioxane is largely unregulated ...
Other
Nov 11, 2020
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Effective government saves lives in cyclones, other disasters
In 2008, Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 people in Myanmar. It was a powerful category 3 or 4 storm at landfall, but tropical storms with similar wind speeds that year resulted in far fewer fatalities in other countries.
Social Sciences
Nov 4, 2020
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Stay-at-home orders cut noise exposure nearly in half
People's exposure to environmental noise dropped nearly in half during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, according to University of Michigan researchers who analyzed data from the Apple Hearing Study.
Environment
Oct 9, 2020
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Software predicts the rise and fall of every river on Earth
In July heavy rains triggered landslides and floods in Nepal that ultimately killed more than 130 people. As soon as the rain started falling, BYU professor Jim Nelson knew things could get bad.
Earth Sciences
Oct 8, 2020
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Rough sleeping in the UK fell during the pandemic—but can this success be sustained?
Two weeks after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, the UK government announced Everyone In, a scheme to protect people sleeping rough from catching the virus.
Social Sciences
Oct 7, 2020
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Scientist maps carbon dioxide emissions for entire US to improve environmental policy-making
With intense wildfires in the western U.S. and frequent, intense hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the nation is again affected by extreme weather-related events resulting from climate change. In response, cities, states ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2020
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