Despite water conservation regulations prohibiting daytime watering, irrigation sprinklers spray water onto a lawn of degraded soil, July 12, 2022, during California’s historic drought. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The Colorado River is drying up. This day has come since the agreement to share its waters was reached exactly 100 years ago, signified most …
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Nicole Mann was busy growing bush tomatoes aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this morning just before I contacted her by phone, on a call from New York via Mission Control to Houston, Texas, and to the station, orbiting 400 km (250 mi.) above Earth. Dwarf tomatoes are no small feat for a station program …
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration declared the northern bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease. “White-nose syndrome is decimating cave bat species like the northern myotis at an unprecedented rate,” said Martha Williams, director of …
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OWhether you live in the rapidly drying American West or are aboard the International Space Station for a six-month stay, having enough water to live on is a constant concern. As climate change continues to wreak havoc on the West’s aquifers and humanity sinks deeper into the solar system, the clean water supply issues we …
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NASA has announced the release of the James Webb History Report, a document detailing their investigation of the Next Generation Space Telescope’s namesake which headed into space on December 25, 2021. Months before its launch, the observatory was the subject of controversy when it was revealed that Webb was involved in the so-called “Lavender Scare”. …
NAPERVILLE, Illinois, Nov 17 (Reuters) – China has been sporadic in the U.S. soybean market lately, although its buying last week was surprisingly large and likely much needed as supplies of beans from the main importer have become scarce . However, China’s pork industry, the world’s largest, could be on tough ground, as evidenced by …
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As the earth warms and precipitation patterns change, trees are expected to migrate north in search of the weather to which they are suited. Scientists predict that trees will have to move faster than their natural abilities through seed propagation. This has led some scientists at the University of Vermont to try to restart this …
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