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The Ohio State University has opened its Controlled Environment Agriculture Research Complex, a new facility that will be used to research technology-based approaches to agriculture. The complex, which includes high-tech greenhouses, uses emerging technology to conduct research and control environmental factors, such as light, humidity, temperature and nutrients, which lead to an extended growing season, [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated many children's well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away some of their parents' jobs, sickening some family members and teachers, and adding chaos to their daily lives. The scale of the disruption to kids' education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively [...]
HOBOKEN, N.J. — After Superstorm Sandy struck the northeast in 2012, an unprecedented effort began to fortify the densely populated coastline against the next big storm. Thousands of homes were raised on pilings. Concrete and steel walls meant to help hold back the sea were hidden beneath rebuilt dunes and beach boardwalks. Tunnels near New [...]
WASHINGTON — Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 "clean" school buses under a new federal program. The Biden administration is making the grants available as part of a wider effort to accelerate [...]
DETROIT (AP) — All summer long, Aleen Hudson kept looking for a new minivan or SUV for her growing passenger shuttle service. She had a good credit rating and enough cash for a down payment, but dealerships in the Detroit area didn't have any suitable vehicles. Or they'd demand she pay $3,000 to $6,000 above [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Manuel and Marcy Silva combed through the charred rubble that used to be their home, searching for any salvageable bits in the wake of the largest wildfire in New Mexico history. Manuel found two of his high school wrestling medals. Gone was the bedroom furniture Marcy's grandfather built as a gift, her [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at the scale of the crisis. Across the country, math scores saw their [...]
WASHINGTON — With several billion dollars in federal money secured for drought-stricken western states, managers and officials on the Rio Grande are hopeful some will reach their communities and bring attention to the challenges facing one of North America's longest rivers. Stretches of the river near Albuquerque, N.M., went dry for the first time in [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Vivian Kargbo thought her daughter's Boston school district was doing the right thing when officials kept classrooms closed for most students for more than a year. Kargbo, a caregiver for hospice patients, didn't want to risk them getting COVID-19 and extending pandemic school closures through the spring of 2021 is what many [...]
JAY, Maine (AP) — Across the country, families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten. The Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter and some worry whether heating assistance programs will be able to make up the difference for [...]