Lest we forget that environmental and human health are intimately connected, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill delivered that message in spades.
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Talking About Water
Year: 2010
The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade.
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Countdown on the Columbia
More than 400 dams produce power and control floods in the nation’s fourth largest river basin. The U.S./Canada treaty that established responsibilities for water flow and power sharing is due for renewal.
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DIRT Camp
Scott Sell earned a paycheck on the way to his degree.
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Broken Beams
How and when things break yields information that manufacturers use to build better structures. So it’s no surprise that the companies that make the things we live in, ride over and depend on support research that tells them just how far their products will take us.
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A Feeling for Family
hen Shelley Jordon was a little girl growing up in Brooklyn, she got in trouble for pulling her mother’s books off the shelves and drawing in the white spaces. Her need to create was so strong that she couldn’t resist, despite knowing her mom would be angry.