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Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
The push to remove lead pipes is on. Thousands of water systems still don’t know where theirs are
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (1083+ words) Kathryn Pilgrim knew the century-old Victorian she bought in Dunkirk, New York, came with old plumbing. She replaced pipes she suspected of containing lead and later installed a kitchen filter designed to remove heavy metals. But six years after buying…...
How a brownfield redevelopment is revitalizing city neighborhoods
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (509+ words) The Pearl Brewery redevelopment in San Antonio, Texas, has long been a great example of brownfield transformation into an urban village. The development, which won a CNU Charter Award in 2015, is sandwiched between an elevated highway and the San Antonio…...
Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (591+ words) WASHINGTON – Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus....
In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1185+ words) It's an idyllic setting in North Carolina's Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch for miles, country roads wend through stands of pines and thousands of bird watchers converge to witness the spring migration. But it's what’s…...
Takeaways from AP story on a major effort to restore peatland in North Carolina
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (429+ words) Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of ditches dug decades ago for an abandoned farming venture drained much of the water from thousands of years of accumulated peat — partially decayed organic matter up to 15 feet (4.6 meters) deep — leaving the site vulnerable to drought…...
San Antonio to house nation's first pest biosecurity platform
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (297+ words) Flyttr announced plans on Sept. 8 to build a large-scale biosecurity research, development and countermeasures platform in San Antonio, Texas. The facility will focus on developing and manufacturing responses to major pest threats affecting livestock, agriculture and public health. With concerns…...
Nepal's flood disaster and the impact of climate change loom large in the icy shadow of Mont Blanc
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (789+ words) Alex Turnbull And John Leicester CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC – For centuries, French and Italian mountain communities on the flanks of Western Europe's highest peak have gazed upon seemingly eternal glaciers and snow that gave the colossus its name: Mont Blanc, the white mountain....
Flyttr Announces Launch of Nation's First Pest Biosecurity Platform, Located in San Antonio, with New World Screwworm as First Target
5+ day, 41+ min ago (662+ words) Flyttr, the leader in biosecurity countermeasures for critical pest threats, today announced plans to build the nation's first large-scale biosecurity research, development and countermeasures platform in San Antonio, Texas. The platform is being built to give the United States and…...
San Antonio expands shared solar for renters, tree-covered homes, and roofs that miss the sun
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (409+ words) For San Antonio residents who rent, live under heavy tree cover, or have roofs that are not well-suited for solar panels, going solar is still possible. The utility CPS Energy is now expanding its community solar program, allowing customers to…...