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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
At the southern tip of the sprawling Hanford Site, the soil beneath the 300 Area contains residual uranium from a handful of now-removed settling ponds and trenches that stored liquid waste from the processing of spent nuclear fuel rods.
In the fight to slow climate change, nature is a powerful weapon.
Fish provide a vital source of protein for over half the world’s population, with over 56 million people employed by or subsisting on fisheries.
Canadian homeowners do not have the information they need to know if they should buy flood insurance leaving them exposed to significant financial risk.
Indiana University researchers are advancing knowledge about how bacteria build their cell walls that could contribute to the search for new antibacterial drugs.
New research confirms that drastic changes in ocean salinity from, for example, severe freshwater flooding, as recently experienced off the coast of north-east Queensland from abnormal monsoonal conditions, provoke a similar stress response in corals as extreme heating, resulting in "freshwater bleaching" and if unabated, coral death.
