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How Bird Flu Went from Devastating Poultry Farms to Infecting Dairy Herds

Scientific American

For example, in an outbreak of H5N2 and H5N8 bird flus from 2014 to 2015 farmers lost more than 50 million poultry birds. Those numbers are brutal, but after the 2014–2015 outbreak of H5N2 and H5N8 poultry farmers knew what to expect from the virus in terms of bird losses.

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Cosmic Explorer, Laser Breakthroughs and the Next Generation of Gravitational-Wave Research

Scientific American

Evans: Well, over 10 years ago now—and this is in 2014—we realized that we were never gonna be clever enough to really do everything we wanted to do with the current facilities. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University. Feltman: Mm.

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The “Silver Bullet” Required to Improve California’s Water Rights System: More & Better Data

Legal Planet

Berkeley researchers Ted Grantham and Lucy Andrews, scholars at the campus’ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The ongoing deficiencies of surface water monitoring and reporting of data in California are underscored by an important, new report by U.C.

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Future Shock

Legal Planet

Another point relates to the pace of global change and of our ability to adapt: Compared with its prior report in 2014, the 2022 report concludes that “levels of risk for all Reasons for Concern (RFC) are assessed to become high to very high at lower global warming levels” than previous expected. The pace of change.

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Recharge net metering (ReNeM) provides win-win-win for groundwater agency, landowners, & sustainable groundwater management

Legal Planet

In response to this growing threat and 2014 legislation designed to put an end to chronic overdraft, many basins have identified managed aquifer recharge (MAR) as an essential supply-side tool for managing water resources.

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Emerging Investigator Series – Changseok Han

Water Research & Technology

in Department of Environmental Engineering at Yeungnam University, Korea, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. in Environmental Science and Engineering program, Department of Biomedical, Chemical, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, USA in 2014. He earned his B.S. Dr. Han achieved his Ph.D

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

© GIDEON MENDEL, Jeff and Tracey Waters, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK, February 2014 C-print. and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Lead image: © GIDEON MENDEL, Gideon Mendel at work on his Drowning World project in Chandajan Village in Assam State, India in September 2014.

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