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Researchers decode retinal circuits for circadian rhythm, pupillary light response: Photoreceptor cells in mice drive vision and non-vision functions using distinct circuits in the eye
The eye’s light-sensing retina taps different circuits depending on whether it is generating image-forming vision or carrying out a non-vision…
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Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Brett Kelman Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed…
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Georgia Power to recycle coal ash from Plant Bowen – The Current
ATLANTA – Georgia Power announced plans Wednesday to recycle more than 9 million tons of coal ash stored at Plant…
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What’s the best way to pick a nursing home for a loved one?
By Thomas Goldsmith When the time comes near to choose a nursing home for a loved one, the ideal path…
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Nasal Spray for Allergies: What to Know and How to Choose
If you deal with seasonal allergies and don’t use a nasal spray, we’ve got just one question for you: What are you…
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PSA: You Can Turn Credit Card Points Into Gas Cards for Abortion Seekers
The Supreme Court’s devastating overturning of Roe v. Wade last month means that abortion will likely be illegal or heavily…
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State veterans agency ignores NCGA deadlines for assessing state veterans nursing homes
By Thomas Goldsmith Until they heard from Gov. Roy Cooper, the state Division of Military and Veterans Affairs slow-walked directives…
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Carolina Abortion Fund helps patients sort out logistics and pay for their procedure
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Anna wasn’t sure if she wanted to be a mom. She was sure that she wasn’t happy…
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Importing water to save the Salton Sea is long overdue.
For various reasons, the Salton Sea is drying: rural-urban water transfers and sales, drought and manmade pollution. We have local…
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Firing up the grill with less pollution
If you’re planning to barbeque over the Fourth of July weekend, consider grilling in ways that emit less air pollution. Ali Ghasemi,…
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Heat wave kicking in across the Pacific Northwest
It’s a hot weekend for outdoor activities such as ballooning. The La Jolla, piloted by Dale Justice of Newberg, prepares…
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‘A subtraction problem:’ A shrinking Colorado River faces sharp, sudden cuts – The Nevada Independent
Good morning, and welcome to the Indy Environment newsletter. As always, we want to hear from readers. Let us know…
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Peter Dykstra: American Invasive Species Hall of Fame, part 1
In recent years, Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., have done battle over two of the biggest Hall of Fame-less sports juggernauts.…
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Here’s How School Shooting Survivors Are Healing, Helping, and Fostering Hope
Trauma can be extremely difficult to process, especially for those who endured gun violence within the very place they are…
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A Post-‘Roe’ World in Georgia Will Mean More Restrictions — And More Political Battles
Sam Whitehead ATLANTA — Jerisha Morton didn’t realize she was pregnant until about six weeks into her pregnancy. She soon…
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With Increased Nutrient Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, Environmentalists Hope a New Law Will Cleanup Wastewater Treatment in Maryland – Inside Climate News
The Chesapeake Bay Program reported on Wednesday that Maryland’s wastewater treatment facilities, operating in violation of discharge permits, contributed significant…
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$53.3 million. 33 jobs. No plan. That’s how Mississippi lawmakers are spending BP oil spill money.
Mississippi legislators created an advisory board to help guide the spending of BP oil spill money in the six counties…
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Federal money could boost state and municipal recycling programs in NH – New Hampshire Bulletin
Brian Patnoe, who runs the transfer station in Lancaster, is tired of seeing materials that could be reused or recycled…
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PTT Global Chemical America Picks Central Ohio for Plastics Recycling Facility
GROVE CITY, Ohio — Although it has not announced whether it will build an ethane cracker plant at Dilles Bottom,…
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One family, three generations of cancer, and the largest concentration of oil refineries in California
This story was produced in collaboration with High Country News. When I visited Christina Gonzalez and her family in April,…
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Are Subsistence Fishers at Greater Risk of Exposure to PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’?
Say, who is 23, arrived in Syracuse in 2014 after spending nine years in a Thai refugee camp. He had…
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Rep. Cori Bush Boosts Biden’s Efforts to Fight Climate Change With Executive Authority
President Joe Biden’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis through executive action got an assist this week, courtesy of Missouri Rep.…
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Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Of the many feats Harriet Tubman accomplished, none awe me more as an historian than the estimated 13 trips she…
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Bitcoin’s Intensive Energy Demands Are Sparking a Crypto Backlash
The first time Jackie Sawicky learned that a Bitcoin mining operation was coming to Corsicana, a rural Texas city 60…
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Virginia governor rolls back plastics phase-out | Energy News Network
At first whiff, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order centered on curbing food waste and boosting recycling across Virginia might…
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Upfront costs prevent many from upgrading appliances | Energy News Network
Many individuals and households have at least one outdated appliance — a refrigerator, a water heater or a window-mounted air…
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California Towns Scramble to Prevent Next Wildfire Catastrophe
In December 2018, one month after the Camp Fire killed 85 residents and nearly leveled Paradise, residents of Nevada County,…
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‘The return of land to Indigenous people is key’: Q&A with Shinnecock Kelp Farm’s Tela Troge
A group of women of the Shinnecock Nation manage the first Indigenous-owned kelp farm on the United States’ East Coast,…
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As Wegmans ends use of plastic bags at Virginia Beach store, city considers 5-cent bag tax
VIRGINIA BEACH — With Wegmans announcing this week that plastic bags would no longer be available at its Virginia Beach…
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Water in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill contains PFAS above new EPA health advisory levels
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Elizabeth Biser (right) and Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox tour the Wilmington-area…
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Four cities get aid to test wells after questions raised about petroleum cleanup standards
Four Minnesota cities will undertake independent investigations of their drinking water supplies after a lawsuit by a former state employee…
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Removing poop from Portland Harbor 50 years ago was 1st step to the city’s waterfront boom
PORTLAND, Maine — Pull the handle on the back of any toilet in the city and whatever you’ve deposited will…
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Westmoreland launches pilot program for electric vehicle chargers at county parks
Westmoreland commissioners on Thursday launched a pilot program to install an electric vehicle charging station at Twin Lakes Park with…
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Activist looks ahead as Shell’s Beaver County ethane cracker goes online – The Allegheny Front
Ever since Shell’s plan to build a petrochemical plant along the Ohio River was announced, activists have been working to…
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Why small NC mountain city is taking on nation’s largest hospital system
By Shelby Harris, Carolina Public Press A small mountain city is challenging the nation’s largest hospital system in court. Brevard…
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Greens say vacate 3,500 drilling permits in new climate change lawsuit
Drilling rigs operate in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area in Lea County, New Mexico. REUTERS/Nick Oxford…
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Democrats in the California Senate Could Make or Break Refinery Pollution Bill
Legislation supported by air regulators in Los Angeles and the Bay Area would increase fines for oil and gas refineries…
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Learn about sustainable practices on annual resilient forest tour this summer
People interested in learning about sustainable forest management practices can gain some first-hand experience this summer by joining a tour…
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Biden’s Been in Office for More Than 500 Days. He Still Hasn’t Appointed a Top Official to Oversee Coal Mine Reclamation – Inside Climate News
Environmentalists and representatives from coal mining communities across the nation on Tuesday pressed the Biden administration to finally appoint someone…
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Saving a Texan Bayou, ‘16 Bottles’ at a Time
No matter how much Bayou Dave hunts, his quarry never goes away. He finds it each time he sets out…
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Growing sprawl in WA woods comes with high wildfire risk – InvestigateWest
Policymakers and homeowners are scrambling to manage the so-called ‘wildland-urban interface’ to mitigate the threat At 9 on a Saturday…
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Buy and Bust: When Private Equity Comes for Rural Hospitals
Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News MEXICO, Mo. — When the new corporate owners of two rural hospitals suddenly announced…
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Climate change is making the world more dangerous for women, queers, and gender minorities
Like most children, I loved summer. Dreams of splashing in the pool and fun road trips would get me through…
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‘Vomiting. The loss of strength’: Southwest heat drives health fears
Placeholder while article actions load LAS VEGAS — Cristian Sanchez’s crew was on the job site by 6 a.m. Saturday,…
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Advocates Fear Top Democratic Lawmaker Will Kill California Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill
One of California’s biggest environmental bills with a chance of passing into law this session would divest billions of dollars…
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Preventive Care May Be Free, but Follow-Up Diagnostic Tests Can Bring Big Bills
When Cynthia Johnson learned she would owe $200 out-of-pocket for a diagnostic mammogram in Houston, she almost put off getting…
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Armadillos are expanding further into the U.S.—and why is still a mystery
Roanoke, VirginiaWhen Nancy Moncrief began her job as curator of mammalogy for the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville…
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Should North Carolina operate its Medicaid oral health program as fee-for-service or transition to managed care?
By Anne Blythe As lawmakers ponder whether to expand Medicaid to add some 600,000 more people to the rolls, the…
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Virginia Hospital System develops reusable gown that eases supply chain and environmental impact issues
Arlington, Va., and Indianapolis – June 13, 2022 – The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortages brought about by the COVID-19…
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How a Highway Divided a Community in Philadelphia
If given the choice to drive or walk, Wesley Morris, Times critic and co-host of “Still Processing,” will always choose…
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