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Lamar Miller

Tiny earthworms' big impact | Science News for Kids - 0 views

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  • Lamar Miller on 14 Jun 12
     
    EarthWorms impact
Korry Busch

Connection to your future self impacts your financial decision-making - 0 views

www.kurzweilai.net/your-financial-decision-making

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  • Korry Busch on 13 Jul 11
     
    How connected consumers feel (or don't feel) to their future selves impacts their spending and savings decisions, researchers at Columbia Business School and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business have determined.
Gabrielle Gant

Last dinosaur before mass extinction discovered - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110712211016.htm

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  • Marquise Middleton on 14 Jul 11
     
    A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence as to whether the impact was in fact the cause of their extinction.
Lamar Miller

EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views

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Carter EPA site

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  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
  • Adeola Adewale on 15 Jun 11
     
    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
  • Lamar Miller on 30 Jun 11
     
    Plans
Marquise Middleton

One in 10 species could face extinction: Decline in species shows climate change warnin... - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110711151457.htm

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  • Marquise Middleton on 13 Jul 11
     
    ScienceDaily (July 11, 2011) — One in 10 species could face extinction by the year 2100 if current climate change impacts continue. This is the result of University of Exeter research, examining studies on the effects of recent climate change on plant and animal species and comparing this with predictions of future declines.
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