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Jan 31, 2012Having a “high metabolism” is seen as a positive for humans...what about cities?
The idea of “urban metabolism” comes from a new book by Austin Troy, associate professor at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. He’s the author of The Very Hungry... read more
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Jan 27, 2012"What a night - couldn't see my hand in front of my face, so dropped down on all fours and crawled in the direction of the tractor, - just a few feet away mind you, and I just don't know how long it did take me to reach the back door of the tractor which was now half buried in the snowdrift...recorded -60 below." wrote Connecticut native John Henry Von der Wall on September 25, 1934. Von der Wall was a member of an Antarctic expedition led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Byrd was the first p... read more
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Jan 25, 2012Sitting in a movie theater, watching previews of coming attractions, I was surprised to see scenes from a movie in which a pack of wolves is method... read more
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Jan 23, 2012In this country, omnivores ate over 26 billion pounds of beef in 2010.
All that meat sold for roughly $74 billion. Of course, some of that was... read more
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Jan 10, 2012If you're anything like me, your knowledge of neutrinos goes something like this:
They are extremely small. Smaller than other really small... read more
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Jan 6, 20122011 was the year fracking “cracked the public consciousness” - and it stands to be an environmental and political issue in 2012. We get an update... read more
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Jan 6, 2012
A state environmental watchdog says that eight jet-fuel burning generators in Hartford should be phased out. As WNPR's Jeff Cohen reports, the state's Council On Environmental Quality only wants the generators used in emergencies.
Deep into summer, the demand for electricity spik... read more
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Dec 30, 2011The big story of 2011 was the weather: epic snowstorms, dangerous ice storms, a deadly tornado, a tropical storm...
And that was all before a f... read more
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Dec 21, 2011We are constantly confronting death. If you watch those CSI shows, you see death. If you watch cable shows, like "Boardwalk Empire", you see grueso... read more
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Dec 8, 2011
Audio excerpts from a panel discussion that John Dankosky hosted, as part of the 2011 environmental summit of the Connecticut League of Conse... read more
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Dec 8, 2011
A new PBS film “Journey of the Universe” invites viewers to become travelers on a journey that explores the origins of the universe, the emer... read more
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Dec 8, 2011Mark Demers is a Fairfield University Professor who just got a grant to study “chaos theory.” Could the gentle flap of a butterfly wing in China se... read more
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Dec 7, 2011Cod is still one of the most important fish in the Atlantic...and a new survey of its population has fishermen worried. Only a few years after repo... read more
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Nov 21, 2011We’ve been hearing for years that Connecticut has an aging electricity infrastructure - along with some of the highest electric rates in the countr... read more
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Nov 16, 2011
Now that the October storm is gone and power is back, there are still trees down across the state. And as WNPR's Jeff Cohen reports, those t... read more
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Nov 8, 2011"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
So said... read more
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Nov 7, 2011Donald Poland’s research focuses on the remaking of urban spaces, and he’s using West Hartford Center as a case study.
Poland argues that this... read more
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Nov 4, 2011Governor Dannel Malloy deployed the troops six days after the snowstorm that tore down powerlines and left millions of Northeast residents in the d... read more
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Nov 3, 2011The Christian Science Monitor has this tale of the tape:
"Power outages in Connecticut hit 831,000 customers. As of Wednesday morning, power ha... read more
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Oct 31, 2011The freak October storm that hit the state this weekend caused more power outages than Hurricane Irene. And, for people in many parts of the state,... read more
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