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AI could help cities detect expensive water leaks
Costly water losses in municipal water systems could be significantly reduced using sensors and new artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Threatened tropical coral reefs form complex, ancient associations with bacteria
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Solving a 75-year-old mystery might provide a new source of farm fertilizer
The solution to a 75-year-old materials mystery might one day allow farmers in developing nations to produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight...
A life cycle solution to fossil fuel impacts
Pennsylvania's energy history is rich with the quantities of fossil fuels that it has produced, but is also rife with the environmental legacies of...
A fresh look at winter footprints: Environmental DNA improves tracking of rare carnivores
A new project shows that animal footprints contain enough DNA for species identification. The study extracted DNA from snow samples collected within animal tracks...
How plastic waste moves in the environment
A researcher for the first time has modeled how microplastic fibers move through the environment. The work could someday help communities better understand and...
Detective mission to characterize and trace the history of a new African meteorite
Researchers are on a mission to describe, classify and trace the history of a meteorite that landed in and around the small town of...
Nations must triple efforts to reach 2°C target, concludes annual review of global emissions,...
Global emissions are on the rise as national commitments to combat climate change come up short. But surging momentum from the private sector and...
Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, too
Scientists have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use hydrocarbons such as methane and butane as energy sources --...
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