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Method used to track ants underground could revolutionize how we measure snow depth from space

Frontiers

Launched in 2018, ICESat-2 aimed to determine the depth of Earth’s snow-covered ice sheets and sea ice. This showed snow depth was approximately half the average distance that the photon traveled inside the snow. ? Read original article ? Download original article (pdf). Ice and snow: the indissoluble bond.

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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds June 2 Hearing On Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Infrastructure In Allegheny County

PA Environment Daily

Photo: Site of the brand-new Revolution Pipeline that exploded in Beaver County in 2018. Click Here to register to watch online. Visit the Senate Democratic Policy Committee webpage for more information. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read more here.)