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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

A 2022 study in Environmental Science and Technology detected more than 20 volatile organic compounds, including hexane, toluene and benzene, in unburned stove gas. Supporters of CPSC taking action often cited the December 2022 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) study that found that 12.7

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Volatile Chemical Products: Important Contributors to Harmful Particulate Matter

HumanNature

Environmental Science & Technology vol. 47 1002210031 (2013). [7] Environmental Science & Technology vol. Long-Term Trends in Motor Vehicle Emissions in U.S. Urban Areas. 7] Coggon, M. 52 56105618 (2018). [8] 8] McDonald, B.

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Young Arabic speakers offered kid-friendly route into scientific discovery

Frontiers

Ranging from galactic astronomy to treating human diseases to environmental sciences, this is the first free resource of its kind to be available in Arabic. The project was launched through a collaboration between King Abdullah University of Science Technology (KAUST) and Frontiers.

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Power through the Adirondack Park

Circle of Blue

I call it a one-time disturbance,” said Tim Mihuc, a professor of environmental science at SUNY Plattsburgh. Securing state and federal permits, in 2013 and 2014, CHPE generated thousands of comments to the New York Public Service Commission and a promise of a $117 million trust fund to support environmental restoration.

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When ‘Eradicated’ Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance

Science & Climate

A failure in science often leads to unexpected directions,” said lead author Edwin (Ted) Grosholz, a professor and ecologist with the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy. “We By 2013, the population had decreased from 125,000 to fewer than 10,000 individuals. Media contact(s).

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Brood X Cicadas, Pt 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Brood II – next emergence in 2030 (last in 2013). Text, images and video by Jon Gelhaus, PhD, Curator of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and professor, Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Brood XIV – next emergence In 2025 (last was 2008). Brood X Cicadas, Pt 2.

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Remembering Thomas Dolan IV (1923-2021)

Academy of Natural Sciences

In 2013 Mr. Dolan astutely explained the importance of biodiversity for stream health: “If you had very little diversity, that would be an immediate indication that something was wrong with the stream, that it wasn’t ecologically balanced.

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