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New Car Smell

by Bill Schlesinger Ah, the smell of a new car.  To get inside a new car for a drive with friends is part of the American experience.  The “new car…

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November 13, 2024
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Wood Burial to combat climate change?

by Bill Schlesinger Bringing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere down to preindustrial levels will be a daunting task, including reducing current emissions and removing the CO2 that has accumulated from…

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October 28, 2024
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Rolling on the river

by Bill Schlesinger Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river Proud Mary by Credence Clearwater Revival, 1969 When the U.S. Supreme Court, now with a largely Trump-appointed conservative majority, overturned the Roe…

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October 12, 2024
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Groundwater

by Bill Schlesinger Deep underfoot in most regions of the world is a zone where the fractures in bedrock are filled with water—known as groundwater–constituting the water table.  Globally, the…

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February 5, 2024
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Big Fish – Little Fish

by Bill Schlesinger A tradition in fisheries management is to throw back the little fellows, so they can grow up, and keep the big ones.  Who doesn’t like displaying the…

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January 11, 2024
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Beautiful Clean Coal

by Bill Schlesinger “We have ended the war on beautiful clean coal,” Donald S. Trump, State of the Union 2018. So, it is recorded for history, Donald Trump’s misunderstandings of…

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December 12, 2023
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Ammonia as a fuel

by Bill Schlesinger It is not often that environmental scientists get to weigh-in on a new technology before it is implemented.  Usually we end up complaining about the aftermath.  But,…

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November 20, 2023
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Wildfires and Air Quality

by Bill Schlesinger A couple of years ago, being a weather-hobbyist, I added a particle sensor (Purple Air PA-II) to our rooftop weather station to measure the ambient concentration of…

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November 6, 2023
Environment / Sections

The Invisible Birds

by Bill Schlesinger The number of species in a given area, what is often called alpha diversity or species richness, sounds like it would be easy to measure.  Make a…

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October 23, 2023