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Vanderbilt meeting concludes time to begin developing climate change adaptation strategies for transportation sector

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The meeting was held in June at Vanderbilt University and was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research (VECTOR), Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment (VIEE) and the University of Memphis’ Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute.

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Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

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million cars, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from The University of Queensland and The University of Canterbury. Their study appears in Global Change Biology. By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs (feral swine), are releasing around 4.9

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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USDA and DOE Partnership Awards $8.9M to 9 Projects to Develop Better Plants for Biofuels

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University of Delaware, Newark. University of Georgia, Athens. Energy Bioscience Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Texas A&M University, College Station. University of California, Berkeley. DOE’s Office of Science will provide $6.9

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DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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The long-term storage of CO2 by injection in underground geologic reservoirs is expected to play a major role in addressing climate change concerns. NETL manages the partnership program for DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

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When I spoke out against the home-porting of the battleship Missouri with its nuclear tomahawk cruise missile arsenal, the folks at the Alliance for Survival called and asked me, “Do you just talk about stuff or do you DO anything too?” So I wrote some more screenplays and began developing TV sitcoms that nobody wanted to produce either.

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

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The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed. On the evening of Sunday, 22 May 2011, a multiple-vortex tornado touched down in the city of Joplin, Missouri.

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