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PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Not long ago, Marine Col. Jennifer Nash, a combat engineer with war deployments under her belt, made a vow to fellow officers as they headed to a dinner in Atlanta: She would get two new recruiting contacts by the end of the evening. She admits recruiting is not the job [...]
CHICAGO — More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising farm animals, but millions of cattle, pigs and other animals get to stay cool in the United States and other parts of the developed world. Many American farmers have apps to forecast animal comfort in the heat. [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University say they have devised a better way to monitor traffic conditions on crowded campus-area streets with the combination of real-time data and artificial intelligence automation. Using the cameras already installed on campus buses, the scientists demonstrated that they could automatically and accurately measure counts of vehicles on urban roadways, [...]
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic and full of suspense. On the sidelines will be a community downwind from the testing site in the southern New Mexico [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Benjamin Franklin was so busy as an inventor, publisher, diplomat and U.S. founding father that it's easy to lose track of his accomplishments. Add one more to the roster: his early work in printing colonial paper currency designed to counter a constant threat of counterfeiting. Franklin was an early innovator of printing [...]
DYSART, Iowa (AP) — When Al Schafbuch cut back on plowing his Iowa fields decades ago and later began growing cover crops, he was out to save money on fertilizer and reduce erosion. He got those benefits and saw his soil change for the better, too: dark, chunky, richly organic matter that he said feels [...]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — In a reversal that marks a significant victory for conservationists, federal officials have decided to “revisit” the 2021 environmental review that cleared the way for construction of a geothermal power plant in Nevada where an endangered toad lives. Environmentalists and tribal leaders suing to block the project said the move will [...]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week that his department will invest $300 million to improve the measurement and reporting of emissions by the country's agriculture and forestry sectors. The investment — which comes from the Inflation Reduction Act — will create a research network to monitor carbon levels in soil, which is crucial for [...]
Summers are famously humid in New York State, but life in the Maioli household has gotten more comfortable since its residents installed a new heating and cooling system — one that isn’t well known yet in the United States. “My wife is pretty happy because in the summer we can keep it to as cold [...]
GENOA, Neb. (AP) — In a remote patch of a long-closed Native American boarding school, near a canal and some railroad tracks, Nebraska’s state archeologist and two teammates filled buckets with dirt and sifted through it as if they were searching for gold. They’re trying to find the bodies of children who died at the [...]