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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: William C. Forrey - A Career In State Parks, Recreation Doing It Right, And Protecting The Environment

PA Environment Daily

He was a registered landscape architect from May 1, 1967, to his complete retirement in 2013. Retired… But Far From Done After he retired from the Bureau of State Parks in 1992, Bill served as Assistant to the President of RBA Group Engineers, Planners, and Architects as a marketing person from July 1, 1992, to January 25, 2004.

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Another concern regarding the environmental impact of cattle is the contribution to deforestation and habitat destruction primarily in tropical regions, like the Amazon rainforest, where land has historically been converted from forested land to pastures for grazing (Margulis, 2004; Gibbs et al., methane emissions (EPA, 2022). Gerber, P.

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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

Scientific American

alginolyticus illnesses first appeared outside the Gulf Coast region in 1999, in North Carolina, and were reported as far north as Maine by the end of 2004. This movement accelerated in 2023 and 2024, when deaths linked to V. vulnificus occurred in major cities in New York State, Rhode Island and Connecticut—a striking advance.

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The 25 best fictional robots – according to New Scientist

New Scientist

Rowan Hooper Heistotron, Rick and Morty (2013) I think “One Crew Over the Crewcoo’s Morty” is the best episode of Rick and Morty because it is a flawless send-up of my favourite genre of film: heist movies. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?” ” asks the detective.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Well, back in 1993 (before the more comprehensive critiques had been published), Hoyt and Schatten put together a long-term estimate of solar activity that relied on the SCL, based on the idea from FCL91 and scaled to a finding about cycling and non-cycling stars that turned out to be wrong too (Wright, 2004). 4171-4176, 2013.

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When Bad Ballot Designs Confuse Voters, Democracy Suffers. Science has Solutions.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nationally, an average of 1 percent of all ballots cast since 2004 included either an overvote or undervote. When this happens, their vote for that contest is unrecorded. In races where margins of victory of small, poor ballot design even has the potential to sway elections.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

But it emphasizes an important point about the relationship between SST and hurricane behavior in general: The hurricane response to SST changes depends on what caused the SST changes ( Emanuel and Sobel 2013 ). 2013 ; Sobel et al. 447-458, 2013. 534-539, 2013. 353-366, 2004. Zhang et al. 390-393, 2017. Sobel, S.J.

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