by Beth Holmes | Jun 29, 2023 | Environmental hazards, Uncategorized
The Yellowstone River has been contaminated by a train derailment, triggering water conservation warnings downstream. On Saturday, a bridge over the Yellowstone River collapsed under a train carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur. Witnesses could see yellow fluid,...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 13, 2022 | Conservation, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Three oil companies have canceled their leases to take oil from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), according to the Bureau of Land Management. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a 19.3-million-acre area that occupies the entire northeastern...
by Admin | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the 1960s and ‘70s, acid rain became a central part of the environmentalist conversation when scientists tied deforestation and reef-bleaching to emissions from industrial centers whole continents away. The findings of their research implicated sulfur output mostly...
by Admin | Nov 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Leading foodservice distributor US Foods has been crowned the winner of KKR’s prestigious Eco-Innovation Award. Global investment firm KKR launched the Eco-Innovation Award in 2016 as a way to incentivize its portfolio companies to become more environmentally...
by Admin | Jan 4, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
Unfortunately, we don’t know as much about cancer as we would like to. But luckily, one study is shedding some light on one interesting aspect of how cancer occurs in many people. According to a new study from the journal Nature, cancer is overwhelmingly a result of...
by Admin | Sep 23, 2015 | Articles, Uncategorized
It’s time to set another place at the table of human ancestry. A recent discovery in South Africa revealed a new humanoid ancestor, called Homo naledi. This newly discovered species was smaller than humans, with a brain size not much larger than that of a chimpanzee....
