Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn salt water into fresh water in North America.
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Big Pharma Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than the Automotive Industry
Rarely does mention of the pharmaceutical industry conjure up images of smoke stacks, pollution and environmental damage.
Switchgrass Hybrid Yields Insights into Plant Evolution
Switchgrass is attractive as a potential bioenergy crop because it can grow for years without having to be replanted.
2019 ‘Dead Zone’ May be the Second Largest on Record
A recent forecast of the size of the “Dead Zone” in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2019 reports that it will cover 8,717-square-miles of the bottom of the continental shelf off Louisiana and Texas.
Industrial Methane Emissions Are Underreported, Study Finds
Emissions of methane from the industrial sector have been vastly underestimated, researchers from Cornell and Environmental Defense Fund have found.
SIRT1 Plays Key Role in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia by Aiding Persistence of Leukemic Stem Cells
Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia can be treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors.