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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completed an investigation into whether air pollution in Sauget is harming people, with a particular focus on the emissions from a hazardous waste incinerator there.

Children learn about the “three sisters” – corn, beans, and squash – growing together, but that’s only part of the story.

A recent research study conducted by the Konecky Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis used advanced climate models to assess the deadly storms that occurred in July 2022.

Cats or dogs? Dogs or cats? Whether you’re a feline fanatic or with the canine crowd, maybe you’ve noticed your cat has an eerie resemblance to a popular purebred pug on social media, or that your dog is starting to look like a lot of Instagram cats.

A team of chemical and materials engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated a method to tune chemical functional groups inside nanoporous materials, enabling precise control over local ion concentrations and pH levels.

Pugs, Persian cats, and other smushed-face cats and dogs are more similar to one another than they are to the wild animals they evolved from

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.

Walk into any pet show and you’ll see them – flat-faced Persian cats with plush coats and round eyes, or pug dogs waddling about with their unmistakably squished faces.

In this episode, “Recycling Demystified”, we find out how recycling helps our environment, the dos and don’ts of single-stream recycling, and learn about creative ways to reuse materials.

To coal or not to coal?