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Oregon State University oceanographer Jack Barth deploys a glider that will spend weeks at sea collecting data on everything from dissolved oxygen levels to temperature.
NPR
Environment

Coastal pacific oxygen levels now plummet once a year

Hypoxia is a condition in which the ocean water close to the seafloor has such low levels of dissolved oxygen that the organisms living down there die.

7 years ago

This illustration provided by Carbon Engineering in October 2018 shows one of the designs of the company's air contactor assemblies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon Engineering acting chief scientist David Keith, a Harvard University professor, said “in the long-term, carbon removal will make sense to reduce atmospheric carbon burden, but only once emissions have been brought near zero. (Carbon Engineering via AP)
Environment
Innovation

Report: Efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped up

Last year the world put nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, and emissions have been rising.

7 years ago

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Space

International Observe the Moon Night

The naked eye is just fine – but if the night sky is clear this evening, the best way to view the moon is with a pair of binoculars ...

Air Date: October 20, 2018

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Environment

Global Warning

Climate change could transform our planet sooner than we thought. A new report from the United Nations says that just 1.5 degrees Celsius ...

Air Date: October 19, 2018

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In this June 3, 2017, file photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga. (Branden Camp/AP)
NPR
Environment
National
Politics

EPA boasts of reduced greenhouse gases, even as Trump questions climate science

The Trump administration is celebrating a drop in the nation's greenhouse gas emissions last year while the president remains skeptical of climate science.

7 years ago

Construction on the Mariner East 2 pipeline has faced myriad problems, including damaged water supplies and sinkholes in a residential neighborhood in Chester County. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP awards water quality-related grants funded by $12.6M penalty against Sunoco

Money will go to efforts in 14 Pa. counties.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Shooting Stars

Buried in the data from European Space Agency’s Gaia Survey satellite, astronomers from Leiden University in the Netherlands discov ...

Air Date: October 16, 2018

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President Donald Trump speaks to the media after he steps off Air Force One, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Charleston, W.Va. Trump says the conviction of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on financial crimes is
PBS NewsHour

Trump says climate change not a hoax, but not sure of its source

7 years ago

Allagash employees Salim Raal, left, and Brendan McKay stack bottles of Golden Brett, a limited release beer fermented with a house strain of Brettanomyces yeast. The Maine brewery recently installed solar panels as part of its sustainability initiatives. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
Food & Drink

Good news for ‘green’ brews: Consumers say they’ll pay more for sustainable beer

Investment in energy-efficient technologies can be costly, but according to a study published last week in PLOS ONE, these investments may be worthwhile.

7 years ago

The Tunkhannock Creek crosses Pocono Raceway property in Long Pond, Pa. It feeds into the Delaware River. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Environment
Outdoors
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Environmentalists win battle to protect ‘exceptional’ streams in the Poconos

A group of resort owners had challenged DEP's new classification of headwater streams in Monroe County.

7 years ago

A 12-pound lunar meteorite discovered in Northwest Africa in 2017 rests on a table, in Amherst, N.H. (Rodrique Ngowi/AP)
NPR
Space

For sale! Certified lunar meteorite — weight 12 pounds — mileage 250,000

A Boston-based online auction house began accepting bids Thursday on a rare lunar meteorite at $50,000.

7 years ago

In this Friday, April 27, 2018 file photo, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who authorities suspect is the
Biology
Law

Study: DNA websites cast broad net for identifying people

Two DNA experts unconnected to the study said third and fourth cousins can both lead to identifications.

7 years ago

Courtesy of the Science History Institute
The Pulse
Medicine

Check the Label

Who has time to read the small print — to go over all the “stuff” that’s in our food, medicine, or supplements? And what’s carr ...

Air Date: October 12, 2018

Listen 48:07
A 291-day-old retina. Our ability to see colors develops in the womb. Now scientists have replicated that process, which could help accelerate efforts to cure colorblindness and lead to new treatments for diseases. (Johns Hopkins University)
NPR
Biology
Innovation

Human retinas grown in a dish reveal origin of color vision

It takes up to a year to turn a batch of immature retinal cells into a functioning organoid.

7 years ago

Residents watch as the 18,137 acre Holy Fire burns around them for the fourth day in Lake Elsinore, California in the early morning on August 10, 2018. (Photo by Christian Monterrosa / Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Radio Times
Environment
International

The U.N.’s dire climate change study

Guest: Ben Strauss The new U.N. climate report that paints an urgent and dire picture of the Earth’s future if ...

Air Date: October 10, 2018 12:20 am

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