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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Nearly 69 million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home, yet weather warnings have long been issued almost exclusively in English.
Rochester biologist Anne S. Meyer and her colleagues created “bio-stickers” that speed up plastic breakdown in marine environments.
Artificial intelligence shows promise for supporting physicians, but patient health questions are best left to human doctors, according to Penn State researchers.
Municipalities and federal agencies monitor U.S. waters for microcystins, a toxin produced by harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, but a University of Michigan study shows that the blooms produce a greater range of potentially toxic compounds than previously known.
A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the Antarctic ice sheet became more sensitive to climate forcing following a major shift in Earth’s ice age cycles about one million years ago, providing new insight into how ice sheets respond to long-term climate change.
Levels are “three times higher than what we’re allowed to shower in, or drink,” UMass Amherst researcher says.
