Articles on or after 9/13/2024: Grist Climate and Energy
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Climate change is sending ticks into new areas. Georgia researchers are on it. - Grist Climate and Energy  (Sep 19) |
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Sep 19 · On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory University researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, Georgia, about an hour southeast of Atlanta. She was after something most people try desperately to avoid while in the woods: ticks. “Sometimes you gotta get back in the weeds to get the best ticks,” she explained, sweeping a large square of white flannel along the forest floor. The idea was that the ticks could sense the movement of the fabric and smell the carbon dioxide Lewis breathed out and would grab onto the flannel flag. “My favorite thing about them is their little grabby front arms, the way that ... Read more ... |
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In coal-rich Kentucky, a new green aluminum plant could bring jobs and clean energy - Grist Climate and Energy  (Sep 15) |
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Sep 15 · When John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to come by in his corner of northeastern Kentucky. A giant iron and steel mill routinely needed maintenance and repair work, as did the coal “coking” ovens next to it. There was also a hulking coal-fired power plant and a bustling petroleum refinery nearby. Fossil fuels extracted from beneath the region’s rugged Appalachian terrain supplied these industrial sites, which sprung up during the 19th and 20th centuries along the yawning Ohio River and its tributary, Big Sandy. “Work was so plentiful,” Holbrook recalled on a scorching August morning in Ashland, a quiet riverfront city ... Read more ... |
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