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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Jul-2025 06:10 ET (11-Jul-2025 10:10 GMT/UTC)

More power grid connectivity in western U.S. could supercharge clean energy

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego offers a first-of-its-kind look at how deeper coordination among Western U.S. states could lower the cost of decarbonizing the electric grid—and speed up the clean energy transition.

Journal: Nature Communications

Human pressure most affecting Atlantic Rainforest deer density, study finds

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The most robust estimate ever made in the biome shows that hunting, predation by domestic dogs, livestock diseases and competition with wild boars are among the main anthropogenic influences. Scientists used an innovative method involving trained dogs and fecal DNA analysis.

Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Study shows 90% metal pollution drop in Adirondack waters five decades after the clean air act

University at Albany, SUNY
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published by researchers at the University at Albany has presented the first documented evidence that Adirondack surface waters made a near full recovery from metal pollution since the enactment of the Clean Air Act.

Journal: Environmental Pollution

AMS report and statement: "America's economic leadership is at risk"

American Meteorological Society
Reports and Proceedings

As federal science agencies, including NOAA, face catastrophic cuts, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) today released a Statement and Special Report on the U.S. Weather Enterprise, highlighting agencies' foundational role in supporting public safety, private sector operations, national security, and vital infrastructure.

Study of ‘spatial synchrony’ using long-term data exposes ecological trends and could boost conservation, farming

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Kansas in Ecology Letters reveals the study of spatial synchrony over a long enough timescale leads to better testing of ideas, improved statistical results and new conceptual realms for understanding ecology, conserving species and farming more profitably.

Journal: Ecology Letters

Aquaculture in the Amazon promotes food security with less impact than livestock farming

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Brazil and the United States point out the advantages of fish farming over livestock farming, but warn of the need for stricter environmental regulations to prevent the activity from becoming an additional pressure on the biome.

Journal: Nature Sustainability
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Former DOJ officials suggest antitrust attention, action to address concerning traits of health care conglomerates

Carnegie Mellon University
Reports and Proceedings

n a new opinion piece, two experts who worked in the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division argue that a few huge health care conglomerate platforms have many of the same concerning traits as big tech platforms. In suggesting that policymakers and stakeholders look beyond the individual services provided by each platform, they recommend that antitrust attention and action may be needed.

Journal: JAMA

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