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Thanks to the Lifestyle Project, which tests students’ eco-awareness and then challenges them to make changes, students are realizing that even minor changes in behavior can help the environment.
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Coastal Development: The Galveston Case, Part II
The world’s coastlines are being developed, despite calls from scientists to protect natural systems. The public needs to heed these calls, or disaster could await.
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Science Legislation: America COMPETES, Geeks Rule and Everybody Wins
Congress passed and the president signed the America COMPETES Act this fall. The act is designed to promote science and technology education and, if funded as designed, is a win-win situation for everyone.
Linda Rowan
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Those pesky mnemonic devices you learned in grade school can come in handy in college and at work when trying to remember everything from the planets’ order to rock hardness.
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ON THE COVEREcuador’s Tungurahua volcano has been erupting intermittently for the past eight years. Read more in this issue. Photo is courtesy of Alois Speck, CGVG-USFQ.
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