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Itaipu Dam powers 90% of Paraguay and 15% of Brazil
ASUNCIÓN, July 8 — The Itaipu Dam, a 14,000-megawatt hydroelectric plant straddling the Paraná River on the border…
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1930s Mega-Engineering: Hoover Dam and TVA Tamed Rivers
BOULDER CITY, Nevada, July 8 — The Hoover Dam stands 726 feet tall on the Colorado River at…
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Starlink Soars from 60 to Over 6,000 Satellites Since 2019
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 8 — It has been seven years since the first 60 Starlink satellites rode a…
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Key Players in Grid Management: RTOs, ISOs, and Federal Regulators
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The architecture of America’s electricity grid is a patchwork of regional bodies, each with…
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Nobel Winners Unlock Telomere Secrets of Cellular Aging
LONDON, July 8 — The molecular clock at the end of every human chromosome ticks a little faster…
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Mark Carney champions green finance and net-zero goals
LONDON, July 7 — Mark Carney, the Canadian economist and banker who has held the top monetary policy…
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UW Researcher Who Found 6PPD-Q Toxin in Salmon Honored
SEATTLE — The chemical that kills coho salmon before they can spawn has now been linked to Alzheimer’s…
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FCC proposes satellite environmental exemption, sparking NEPA debate
WASHINGTON, July 7 — The Federal Communications Commission is sitting on a proposed rule change that would exempt…
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Dr. Kolodziej Examines Tire Pollution’s Environmental Impact
SEATTLE, July 7 — The man who first identified the chemical that kills adult coho salmon before they…
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Dr. Zhenyu Tian identifies 6PPD-quinone’s toxicity in salmon
SEATTLE — Dr. Zhenyu Tian, a research scientist at the University of Washington, led the study that cracked…
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USC study quantifies aluminum oxide pollution from satellite reentries
LOS ANGELES, July 7 — The aluminium oxides that flake off satellites as they burn up on reentry…
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Starlink Satellites’ Controlled Reentry Releases Metals Into Mesosphere
LONDON, July 7 — Every few months, a constellation of Starlink satellites begins its final, deliberate fall. The…
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Dr. Zhenyu Tian Identified 6PPD-Quinone’s Toxicity to Salmon
TACOMA, July 7 — A single chemical, first identified in a University of Washington Tacoma lab six years…
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SpaceX, FCC, Environmental Groups Clash Over Satellite Rules
WASHINGTON, July 7 — The Federal Communications Commission is edging toward a decision that will shape the commercial…
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Reshapes Space Amid Environmental Debate
LONDON, July 7 — The technical reality of Elon Musk’s sprawling empire is that no single descriptor quite…
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What Happens Next: Research Steps and Regulatory Implications
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing the tire chemical 6PPD-quinone under the Toxic Substances Control Act,…
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Oil Prices Swing from $140 to Negative $37 and Back
NEW YORK, July 7 — The benchmark for American crude oil has spent the better part of two…
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NASA Sets Timeline for Artemis II and III Lunar Missions
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The Artemis program’s next major milestone is Artemis II, currently scheduled for November 2024.…
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John Preskill coined ‘quantum supremacy’ and explored quantum complexity
PASADENA, July 6 — John Preskill, the American theoretical physicist who gave the field of quantum computing its…
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Diesel Powers Global Trade and Agriculture for Over a Century
LONDON, July 6 — The numbers that underpin the global economy are, as ever, a matter of dry…
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The Energetic Calculus of Flight and Its Trade-Offs
ROME, July 5 — The ostrich, the world’s largest bird, lost its ability to fly because evolving to…
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Storm Overturns Boat, Killing Three Children in Lake Geneva
LAKE GENEVA, Wis., July 4 — Three children are dead after a boat capsized on Geneva Lake Friday…
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Bird Declines Signal Urgent Need for Environmental Action
WASHINGTON, July 4 — The birds haven’t vanished completely. But their numbers are falling fast enough that scientists…
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Birders risk missing migration entirely by focusing only on peak months
Birders who plan their outings solely around peak migration months might be overlooking a quiet danger: missing the…
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