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I’ve always been fascinated by crow intelligence and at the same time amazed how few people recognize this intelligence especially since, according to some cognitive research, theirs exceeds that of dogs. This video lecture from a writer Joshua Klein, who has been involved with an amateur study of corvid behavior, highlights this.
Of course [...]
More Web Sightings hereBisphenol A or BPA is an important industrial chemical used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. The plastics industry maintains that BPA is completely safe. But academic and government researchers say the chemical needs to undergo a new risk assessment.
...Read MorePercholorethylene, commonly known as perc, is used by about 80 percent of U.S. dry cleaners to remove stains and clean clothes.
When first introduced to dry cleaners in the 1930s, little was known about its health effects, and it was considered something of a miracle chemical because it could be aggressive on stains, but was not [...]
...Read MoreThe principle of maximum diversity operates both at the physical and at the mental level. It says that the laws of nature and the initial conditions are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. As a result, life is possible but not too easy. Always when things are dull, something [...]
Officials in New York and eight other Northeastern states have come to a preliminary agreement to freeze power plant emissions at their current levels and then reduce them by 10 percent by 2020, according to a confidential draft proposal.
The cooperative action, the first of its kind in the nation, came after the Bush administration decided [...]
The newly expanded Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant has resulted in sooner-than-expected improvements in Onondaga Lake water quality. Dramatic reductions in ammonia and phosphorus levels have been observed in only a few short months; ammonia levels now meet the 2012 federally mandated standards for clean water. Phosphorus levels, while improved, still exceed those standards [...]
Here’s a useful blog bringing an economist’s perspective to natural resource and environmental issue. Go directly to it here.
The New Scientist reports that researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found further evidence that Global Warming is impacting the Great Lakes. Their analysis of ice break-ups dating back to 1846 concludes that spring thaw has shown an earlier trend and that trend has accelerated since 1975.
On 56 of the lakes the spring [...]
Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports on ebbing water levels in Lake Huron and the rest of the Great Lakes. There is evidence that this may be the result of dredging and subsequent erosion of the St. Clair and Detroit river system or possibly it is a natural cycle in the Lakes. [...]
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1124267970133220.xml&coll=1
http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=47403
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2005/08_2005/081220053.htm
In an attempt to isolate the source of Freon 113 threatening ground water near the east side of the sprawling microelectronics campus, IBM workers took soil-gas samples beneath Building 57 between January and March.
The results showed high levels of Freon. But they also showed higher concentrations of trichloroethylene (TCE), a solvent responsible for contaminating hundreds [...]
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1123836122183900.xml&coll=1
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