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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
From sizzling bacon in the kitchen to wildfire smoke in the sky, cooking and pollution release microscopic particles that affect humans' health, the air they breathe, and even weather and climate.
The plumbing systems of volcanos are vast and complex. But they aren’t consistent, even in the same volcano.
Rochester biologist Anne S. Meyer and her colleagues created “bio-stickers” that speed up plastic breakdown in marine environments.
Cornell researchers have developed a new type of computing device that stores information electrically but reads it through tiny mechanical motion, an unusual approach that could open a path toward more energy-efficient hardware for artificial intelligence and scientific computing.
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.
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.
