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Yale Being Investigated As ‘Hostile Sexual Environment’

A group of 16 Yale University students and have filed a complaint against the school for failing to eliminate a “hostile sexual environment”. The complainants, both male and female, say Yale failed them in the school’s handling of sexually-related complaints. They also claim the university has violated a federal law that requires gender equality in all education programs that receive government …

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Arctic Environment During Ancient Bout Of Natural Global Warming

Scientists are unraveling the environmental changes that took place around the Arctic during an exceptional episode of ancient global warming. Newly published results from a high-resolution study of sediments collected on Spitsbergen represent a significant contribution to this endeavor. The study was led by Dr Ian Harding and Prof John Marshall of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean …

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Environment Pacesetter: Gwen Dooley

Gwen Dooley has seen Boulder evolve. She remembers her days as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado in 1957, when horses grazed and cottonwoods grew on the expanse that is now the Twenty Ninth Street Mall.

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Environment: Rising water of Lake Mainit in Caraga: boon or bane?

KITCHARAO, AGUSAN DEL NORTE — During the rainy season from November to March, the water level of Lake Mainit rises by at least one meter. When typhoons hit, the lake, which is shared by Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Norte in the Caraga Region, goes up as high as three meters, a team from the Mindanao State University reported.

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Nanomaterials in our environment

( American Society of Agronomy ) The manufacturing of nanomaterials has been steadily on the rise in the medical, industrial, and scientific fields. In a study funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, a team of scientists from the University of Kentucky determined that earthworms could absorb copper nanoparticles present in soil.

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Spacecraft will enable scientists to study space environment around moon, Earth

( University of California – Los Angeles ) Two spacecraft are starting to study the moon’s environment as part of a NASA mission called ARTEMIS, whose principal investigator is Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences.

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Environment Ministry approves newly fortified Coombs compound where former UVic rabbits escaped

A newly fortified rabbit compound passed its initial inspection by Environment Ministry staff Thursday, saving, for the moment, more than 200 former University of Victoria rabbits.

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Biologists identify influence of environment on sexual vs. asexual reproduction

( University of Toronto ) Evolutionary biologists at the University of Toronto have found that environment plays a key role in determining whether a species opts for sexual over asexual reproduction.

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Research finds strong relationship between food environment, built environment and obesity

Researchers at the University at Buffalo conducting a neighborhood-scaled exploratory study that tested the association between the food environment, the built environment and women’s body mass index (BMI) have found that women with homes closer to a supermarket, relative to a convenience store, had lower BMIs, and that the greater the number of restaurants within a five minute walk of a woman’s …

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Environment college at UW names dean

Lisa Graumlich, director of the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, was named inaugural dean of the University of Washington’s College of the Environment.

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