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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry. Earlier post.) Greenhouse gas LCA analysis.

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A Roomba for Rivers

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Humankind is enamored with water. The machine, which can run autonomously or at the direction of a remote operator, goes around collecting the junk and gunk (like plastic bottles, oil spills, and algae) that float on the water, as well as detritus located up to 10 meters below the surface. Texas A&M University.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. She left the University of Texas in 2005 to join Rice University. Connected on one side is a flexible fiber bundle, just 1 mm in diameter, with a light source and a digital CCD camera inside. After earning her Ph.D.

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New Research Tools for Assessing Impacts of Aerosols on Climate

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Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). NASA technique. micrometers). Earlier post.).

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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As the pandemic continued to grind on, it was actually comforting to know that smart people in the energy sector were working hard to keep the lights on, advance the technology, and improve people’s lives. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.

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A Girls’ Trip to Costa Rica. But With No Phones, Did It Happen?

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We didn’t text photos to friends and family in far colder climates back home. A bit like sleepaway camp We’d come from all over the United States, including Texas, Alabama, California and Minnesota, and most of us were meeting for the very first time. But we didn’t capture any of this on our phones. No TikToks either.

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myenergi’s Ultimate Guide To Greenland

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Along the north-central coast, the climate is arctic and summer temperature average around freezing – 0 degrees Celsius. In the south the climate is milder. state of Texas. Seals, whales, cod, salmon, flounder and halibut are found in the surrounding waters and Greenland’s rivers contain salmon and arctic char.

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