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Museums and learning in Orlando

What can I learn in the Orlando-area? Check out upcoming museum exhibits in the Sentinel's 2016 season preview.

source: Orlando Sentinel

You think global warming is a sham because 'climate has changed before?' Read this comic

Randall Munroe posted an XKCD comic that so perfectly sums up the illogical nature of the most pervasive argument against the existence of man-made global warming: "The climate has changed before." Let me complete that fallacy...

source: The Washington Post

UF professor recognized for work in environmental science

A UF professor became the fourth woman to receive an environmental science award in recognition of her decades long career. Nancy D. Denslow, a professor of environmental toxicology in both the UF College of Medicine and College of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2016...

source: Alligator

Inspired by intrigue

Austin Gray has always been inquisitive. As the youngest of five boys, Gray was always asking — or pestering — his older brothers with questions. Now as an adult, that same curiosity has led him to pursue a Ph.D. in environmental health science at UNCG. "Scientific...

source: UNCG Now

Zika pesticide controversy: Is 'naled' dangerous to human health?

To fight mosquitoes that may be carrying the Zika virus, officials in Miami-Dade County are now using aerial spraying, and this is stirring local controversy about the safety of the chemicals that are used in those sprays. The debate...

source: Live Science

A cinematic approach to drug resistance

In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to drugs. The experiments, described in the Sept. 9 issue...

source: Harvard Gazette

What do the presidential candidates know about science?

This year's highly unusual presidential election resembles the past two campaigns in at least one way. The candidates of the two major parties — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — provided answers to 20 questions about the most important science-based issues...

source: Scientific American

Russia's blood red river is worse than we thought

Recently, strange images of a river that had turned blood red emerged out of Russia. Now satellite images show that the red waters run much further through the area — and it's been happening for decades. NASA's Earth Observatory just released pictures that show the...

source: Gizmodo

Adverse Outcome Pathways underlying narcosis toxicity and the use of -omics technologies for screening potential narcotic chemicals

Adverse Outcome Pathways underlying...

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MIT researchers found a way to make pesticides stick to plants

When farmers spray their crops with pesticides and other treatments to help ensure their survival, 98 percent of those chemicals bounce right off the plants and end up in the groundwater as pollution. It’s a waste, and harmful to...

source: Gizmodo

Traces of amphetamines in sewage alter stream ecosystems, researchers find

When sewage leaks, Baltimore's waterways are not just fouled by the waste. They also become contaminated with chemical residues of pharmaceuticals, personal care products and even illicit drugs, researchers say. And such substances...

source: The Baltimore Sun

Exposure on tap: Drinking water as an overlooked source of lead

Providence, Rhode Island, and Portland, Oregon, are two cities that by all accounts have well-run water utilities and health departments. Both have also had recurring problems with lead in tap water, yet both — according to some critics...

source: Truthout

Signs of hope for nature in a rapidly degrading world

Humanity has been reshaping Earth's ecosystems for millennia in two basic ways. We engage in large-scale conversion of natural habitats to agricultural crops and cities to feed and house our burgeoning population. And in more subtle ways we change the state of natural systems...

source: Scientific American

The Anthropocene epoch: Scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age

Humanity's impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch — the Anthropocene — needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented the recommendation to the International Geological...

source: The Guardian

Florida's natural filter: Everglades National Park

Quietly, water throughout the national park here filters its way from Lake Okeechobee down to Florida Bay through nutrient-rich soil and becomes some of the most pure that nature can make. Cara Capp, the Everglades restoration program manager at the National Parks Conservation...

source: WLRN-FM

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K-12 schools shifting focus toward environmental studies

Museums and learning in Orlando

You think global warming is a sham because 'climate has changed before?' Read this comic

UF professor recognized for work in environmental science

Inspired by intrigue

Zika pesticide controversy: Is 'naled' dangerous to human health?

A cinematic approach to drug resistance

What do the presidential candidates know about science?

Russia's blood red river is worse than we thought

Adverse Outcome Pathways underlying narcosis toxicity and the use of -omics technologies for screening potential narcotic chemicals

MIT researchers found a way to make pesticides stick to plants

Traces of amphetamines in sewage alter stream ecosystems, researchers find

Exposure on tap: Drinking water as an overlooked source of lead

Signs of hope for nature in a rapidly degrading world

The Anthropocene epoch: Scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age

Florida's natural filter: Everglades National Park

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