EUMETSAT • 11th October 2021 Data in Action: Innovative platform to access complex marine data The Marine Analyst platform enables even the most tech-unsavvy person to access custom analyses of over 1,600 marine environmental datasets.
ecoRI News • 24th October 2019 Providence Chemist Breaks Down Urban Composting On a recent Thursday afternoon, Mike Bradlee manned his composting stand at the Armory Farmers Market on the city’s West Side. His goal: to spread the word about the virtues of urban composting.
ecoRI News • 7th October 2019 Overfishing of Atlantic Striped Bass Prompts Action A new assessment has revealed that striped bass off the Atlantic Coast are being depleted faster than they can replenish, and have been since 2013.
ecoRI News • 23rd September 2019 Solar-Powered Dream Home Saves Money and Lowers Emissions This house — a 2,400-square-foot ranch powered solely by solar energy — is a dream Bennett, president of a solar panel installation company and a licensed contractor, has been steeping for the past 20 years.
ecoRI News • 26th August 2019 RIDOT Again Plans to Take Money from Bicycle, Pedestrian Projects Patrick MacDonald’s first memory after the accident was waking up in the intensive-care unit and thinking it was the coffee shop in which he worked. Why was he tied down, he wondered, and why was his vision suffused with green light?
Live Science • 18th September 2017 Antarctic Caves Warmed by Volcanic Steam May Harbor Life Although the temperatures in caves on the world's southernmost active volcano are closer to those of a summer night than those of a sauna, new research suggests that even this moderate heat may make life possible there.
Live Science • 30th August 2017 New Russian Tanker Makes One of the Fastest Arctic Crossings A Russian ship just made one of the fastest crossings along an Arctic shipping route without the help of a chaperone icebreaker ship, in part because the ship itself functions as an icebreaker and in part because of diminished Arctic sea ice, likely as a result of climate change.
Smithsonian Insider • 20th March 2017 Microplastics in our environment "It’s a funny popular conception that ‘Plastic lasts forever, it never goes away!’ In my job working with museum artifacts, I see that plastic does not last forever."