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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The flowers mingle beautifully in a late-summer breeze along the west patio of the Iowa Memorial Union, the dark crimson petals of bee balm providing a perfect contrast to the golden blossom of the black-eyed Susan and the orange glow of the blanket flower.
Building on a century of hydroscience research, the University of Iowa enters a new era of activity aimed at solving Earth’s biggest environmental issues.
America’s national parks are warming up and drying out much faster than the rest of the United States, according to a new study on the impacts of climate change on U.S. parks published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The changing conditions are threatening protected ecosystems from the Everglades in Florida to Denali National Park in Alaska.
A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States.
Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now the researchers have developed a roadmap, as it were, for industrial cellulose gasoline.
Tropical Storm Kirk formed on Saturday, Sept. 22. By Monday, Sept. 24, Kirk lacked the closed circulation that is a prerequisite for tropical cyclone status. The NOAA-20 satellite provided a visible image of the storm at its peak.
