If you've ever been in a city's central core in the middle of summer, you know the heat can be brutal—and much hotter than in the surrounding region.
Environment
Jun 22, 2021
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Farming and agribusiness play a crucial role in sustaining the economies of small towns and rural areas. There is a lot of evidence of this in the economic literature and in the popular media. This dependency has its inherent ...
Agriculture
Jun 18, 2021
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Colorado has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.
Ecology
Jun 9, 2021
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California's wildfire burn area has increased by more than 23,000 acres per year over the past two decades, and the number of people who have been adversely affected has nearly doubled. In a paper published recently in the ...
Social Sciences
May 31, 2021
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Professors Antoinette Tordesillas and Robin Batterham led the work over five years to develop and test the model SSSAFE (Spatiotemporal Slope Stability Analytics for Failure Estimation), which analyzes slope stability over ...
Earth Sciences
May 26, 2021
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The U.S. Geological Survey says a second earthquake has hit China.
Environment
May 21, 2021
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How to support entrepreneurship in rural areas? The over-regulation and bureaucratic administration of the European Union's rural policy are seen as burdening rather than supporting the promotion of entrepreneurship. At the ...
Social Sciences
May 17, 2021
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High levels of a naturally occurring chemical called arsenic have been a source of contamination of ground-based drinking water, such as well-water, for people in many countries around the world, including parts of the United ...
Environment
May 12, 2021
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Coal combustion by power plants and industry pollutes the air, causing many governments to implement mitigation actions and encourage cleaner forms of energy. Now, a new study in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology indicates ...
Environment
May 12, 2021
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Heavy rains poured down on the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday, causing flooding and mudslides that damaged some homes and further battered areas already burdened by heavy ashfall from eruptions of La ...
Environment
Apr 30, 2021
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