Over 50 Northwestern US Groups Unveil Green New Deal Vision for Area’s Vital Forests
More than 50 conservation and climate justice organizations in northern California, Oregon and Washington on Wednesday called on policymakers to preserve the region's tens of millions of acres of forest land by adopting a Green New Deal…
Engineers apply physics-based machine learning to solar cell production
PICTURE: Despite recent advances in the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells, knowledge about the thermomechanical stability induced by processing of bulk heterojunction active layers is helping to!-->…
microscopic frozen animals brought back to life after 24,000 years | Biology
Microscopic multicellular animals called bdelloid rotifers are known for their ability to survive extremely low temperatures. They would have survived 6 to 10 years when frozen between minus 20 and 0 degrees Celsius. Today, an…
Grizzly Bear Ecology in MT and How to Prevent Conflict
MISSOULA - MTN News recently told you about the history of grizzly bears. Now, we take a look at the current grizzly bear ecology in Montana - and offer some bear safety tips.Montana is home to this enormous mammal - reaching heights of…
Guest comment: Protecting Cayo Costa’s natural beauty | News, Sports, Jobs
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Cayo Costa State Park is considered one of the best bombing beaches in the world. With…
Biden to cut Pentagon money for pandemic prevention
President Joe Biden has proposed slashing the Pentagon's budget by nearly half for the main US government program of preventing, detecting and responding to global epidemics, a move to which even the staunchest allies of the White House…
WA scientist deploys new, longer-term smoke forecast
Reports from Doug Nadvornick of SPR. The Washington State Environmental Agency has developed a new tool to determine where smoke from wildfires will disperse. The goal is to give leeward people…
High Seas treaty can help preserve healthy oceans for generations to come
Doug McCauley
Growing up, Doug McCauley loved the sea so much that he worked as a fisherman throughout high school…
The more social the shrimp, the larger its genome
A team of researchers from Columbia university discovered that eusocial shrimp have larger genomes than their less social parents. The larger genome includes an accumulation of transposable elements - moving DNA…
Black bear cub removed from Cochrane Ecological Institute, license revoked
CALGARY - Alberta fish and wildlife officers removed a black bear cub from a wildlife rehabilitation center earlier this month and revoked the facility's license to work with the animals.
The decision was made on…