Pin ItemailprintLook…up in the sky…it’s a bird…it’s a plane…oh, it’s just NASA‘s P-3B research plane. That’s right, Maryland. NASA will be measuring the air quality over our great state today, according to the Baltimore Sun. The space agency is will be taking air quality samples as part of its DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign. The [...]
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The Fukushima fallout fun continues as milk from Little Rock, Arkansas and drinking water from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have been found to contain the highest levels yet of Iodine-131 from Japan by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to data released by the EPA released on Saturday. Preliminary analysis indicates that the sample from Philly is below [...]
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Whew. That was close. In the bottom of the ninth, House, Senate, and Obama administration officials managed to avert a federal government shutdown and managed to agree on a budget for the rest of the fiscal year. It’s a budget that no one is crazy about, but they’ve admitted they can all live with it [...]
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Here’s something that could keep you up at night. A new study released today by the non-profit Environmental Working Group reveals that the harmful chemical hexavalent chromium may be present in the tap water of as many as 31 U.S. cities. Hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium 6, was featured prominently in the 2000 movie [...]
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Image via CrunchBase Last fall, Google posted information about the efficiency of their data centers and said that they would update this information roughly every quarter. They have now collected data for the 4th quarter of last year and published them. For tracking purposes, they have been keeping records on the efficiency of any Google [...]
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