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The opportunities and challenges of doing science in China

Physics World

In 2004 I moved to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before heading to University College London in 2008. Eastern promise Roberto Soria says there are many opportunities for researchers in China, despite the impact that the pandemic has had. Courtesy: Roberto Soria). How did you end up working in China?

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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Circle of Blue

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

One of the worst seismological disasters of the modern age happened at Christmas 2004 when an earthquake under the ocean causes a massive tsunami, killing around 250,000 people. It also concerns heat and energy transfer, entropy (the waste heat leading to a loss of energy from a closed system), the Carnot Cycle and the law of cooling.

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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013. The deep earth is not just full of hydrocarbon vapors, but also full of radiation. Excess radioactivity has been detected in the soil near well pads, downstream of water facilities where fracking wastewater is treated, and in landfills where fracking waste is dumped.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 1.11.24

PA Environment Daily

Received $6.19 Butternut; Phenological Fun!

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

-- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb. 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.