Articles By Alexandra Hazlett

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Scientists seek causes of woody encroachment on Texas savanna

South Texas is a brutal landscape. For weeks on end each year, it’s possible to have high temperatures hovering above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and lows that don’t dip under 90. The state, which has both large cities and vast rural areas, is extremely water-stressed.

  • Posted August 17, 2012
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Wireless wetland: data supports Everglades restoration

On a muggy day in January, 2012, researchers waded into the south Florida wetlands to install a monitoring tower. Located near Big Cypress Swamp, the equipment will take hourly measurements and report back on the water quality of the wetlands.

  • Posted August 15, 2012

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Abu Dhabi builds solar-powered desalination plants

Water-starved Abu Dhabi has built 22 solar-powered desalination plants that produce 6,600 gallons of water each day.

  • Posted January 23, 2012

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Latest Toxic Release Inventory released by EPA

A long-term downward trend of toxic chemical release was bucked in 2009, mostly due to changes in the metal mining sector, according to a new report by the Environmental Protection Agency.

  • Posted January 12, 2012

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Report states gas wells undercounted in Pennsylvania

There are nearly 500 more gas drilling wells in Pennsylvania than the state’s Department of Environmental Protection has listed as in production, and 182 of them aren’t on the Marcellus Shale permit list, according to a new report.

  • Posted January 11, 2012

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Land-use plan could be win for conservation and commerce

When completed, an innovative reclamation project in the Coquille River Basin in Oregon will have dramatic effects on the health of critical salmon habitat and the productivity of adjacent grazing land.

  • Posted January 9, 2012

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Study finds ‘bunker fuel’ uniquely toxic to fish embryos

The fuel discharged in a 2007 spill in the San Francisco Bay appears to have had a greater toxic effect than the size of the spill would have predicted, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Posted January 5, 2012

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Advice for winter fertilizer application

An exceedingly wet fall in Ohio has stymied the efforts of livestock farmers to use their manure to fertilize their fields. With storage room now running low, they may face a last resort: applying manure to frozen ground.

  • Posted December 29, 2011

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BLM proposes ‘Wild and Scenic’ designation for Utah rivers

Officials at the Bureau of Land Management have proposed 14 miles of waterways in Southern Utah be designated as Wild and Scenic Rivers.

  • Posted October 20, 2011
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Clean beaches, safe water

A new predictive model could change the way beach contamination is monitored. Imagine spending the day at the beach and learning afterward that you were swimming in water contaminated with high bacteria levels. This nasty surprise is all too plausible in many beaches around the country, including the Great...

  • Posted September 22, 2011