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The Country’s Most Endangered River Is Hitting New Lows
Taking the unflattering title of America’s Most Endangered River 2022 is the once-mighty Colorado, according to a conservation group that issues a yearly assessment of riparian health across the country.
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Physicists Defy Haters, Create Tetragonal Ice
A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown phase — called Ice-VIIt — is organised differently from typical water ice. It doesn’t occur naturally on Earth’s surface, but it may exist in…
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The U.S. Has a Plan to Fix Puerto Rico’s Dangerously Busted Energy Grid
Several U.S. government agencies announced a plan to fix Puerto Rico’s ailing electrical grid and move it toward renewable energy. The initiative will combine efforts from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department Housing and Urban Development along with local policies to start a clean energy transition by 2025,…
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Bacteria Survives in Antarctica by Living on Air and Turning Hydrogen Into Water
Humans have only recently begun to think about using hydrogen as a source of energy, but bacteria in Antarctica have been doing it for a billion years. We studied 451 different kinds of bacteria from frozen soils in East Antarctica and found most of them live by using hydrogen from the air as a fuel.…