Environmental economist Katherine Zipp studies how floodplain damages affect long-term housing development in high flood-risk areas.
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Your Sewage is Valuable Muck
A world without phosphorous is a world without life. But phosphorous is a finite resource, so researchers are recovering it from sewage.
New Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Better Predicts Corn Yield
With some reports predicting the precision agriculture market will reach $12.9 billion by 2027, there is an increasing need to develop sophisticated data-analysis solutions that can guide management decisions in real time.
Illuminating Interactions Between Decision-Making and the Environment
In a heavily polluted environment, does it make more sense for a company to keep polluting or start cleaning up its act?
Huge Stores of Arctic Sea Ice Likely Contributed to Past Climate Cooling
In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the North Atlantic and disrupted climate-steering currents, thus playing an important role in causing past abrupt climate change after the last Ice Age, from about 8,000 to 13,000 years ago.
Eliminating Viruses in Our Food With Cranberries and Citrus Fruit
Fresh produce is a major vehicle for noroviruses, a group of viruses that are the most common cause of gastroenteritis in developed countries.


