TOMS RIVER — One of New Jersey’s most infamous pollution sites, linked to a cluster of childhood cancers in the 1990s, will be protected and turned into a 1,000-acre park, according to a draft agreement announced Monday by the State Department of Environmental Protection. . BASF Corporation, owner of the site formerly owned by Ciba-Geigy …
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Under the title Progress, SANParcs 2022 Annual Report has a deeply disturbing and immensely sad target claimed as a success: only 195 rhinos were killed by poachers in 2021 – an average of one every two days. The success, it seems, is that the year before it was a rhino every 36 hours. In its …
Antiviral drugs can suppress tumor adaptation to treatment and significantly prolong progression-free survival BUFFALO, NY – Researchers at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, working in collaboration with Genome Protection, Inc. and the Children’s Cancer Institute in Sydney, Australia, have discovered a new way in which highly repetitive genetic components belonging to the LINE-family 1 …
Pastor Walter Mitty was the last of the group of men to leave the Main Café last Saturday, and as he passed the cash register he noticed that Alice was not busy. “I see you’re wearing a Darren Bailey button for the governor,” he said, hoping to strike up a conversation. The Poplar Park Community …
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Federal snipers recently ventured deep into Congaree National Park, seeking to kill a voracious type of animal that threatens the preserve’s fragile forested floodplain southeast of Columbia. Feral pigs traverse South Carolina – and their destructive ways have not spared Congaree National Park, a 27,000-acre swamp forest that is the cornerstone of South Carolina’s nature …
After years of calling for change, trying to conserve valuable native species and rebuilding neglected trails themselves, users of Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) are calling for the economically and ecologically important park to change direction. The public forum, Friends of Table Mountain, has called on Environment Minister Barbara Creecy to transfer management of the …
