Whether through Twitter, Instagram, or your favorite blog, most of us now get our news online. We don’t have the time or patience to sit through a lengthy newscast or flip through pages of newsprint. Give us the headlines in 280 characters or a one-minute video, and...
A fenceline community is a neighborhood immediately adjacent to highly polluting facilities (such as oil refineries, chemical factories, concrete factories, industrial parks, military bases, or other large manufacturing facilities) and is directly affected by the...
According to a newspaper published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology, Scientists have discovered more than 5,500 entirely new species living on the seabed in the mineral-rich Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean, an area targeted by...
Technology Comes Alive Biotechnology, simply put, is technology that utilizes the biological systems found in living organisms (or the living organisms themselves) to develop and make new commercial products. While cutting-edge developments in areas such as cloning...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its proposal to expand the regulation of coal ash, which is the toxic byproduct of coal combustion. The Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) rule finalized by EPA in 2015 exempted coal ash stored in legacy ponds and...
