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Tasha Dickerson

Air plants can grow without soil - 0 views

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group 2...plants that grow without soil

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  • Tasha Dickerson on 14 Jun 12
     
    a choice of an article for summertime science in Sullivan room
Marquise Middleton

Grasshoppers' Terror Outlives Them - Science News - 0 views

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  • Marquise Middleton on 15 Jun 12
     
    Grasshoppers' terror outlives them Carcasses of jumpy insects taint soil Web edition : Thursday, June 14th, 2012 Terrified insects can haunt their homeland after they die. Chemical remnants of fear in the rotting corpses of grasshoppers slow the decomposition of dead grass and other debris important for fertilizing new plant growth, a new study finds.
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
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