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When it comes to invading clams, Lake Tahoe might not be a very good place to make babies. That s the encouraging conclusion of new research by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno who found that cold temperatures and lack of food combine to discourage reproduction of Asian clams in the lake. Check out this story from Jeff DeLong of the Reno Gazette-Journal.
By Mike Wolterbeek
From the suffocating heat of Death Valley to the bone-chilling cold of Antarctica, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are leading the way in new, more precise methods of collecting important temperature data from around the world.
“It’s not just a thermometer anymore, we can take the temperature of air, soil, or water at the same instant every 15 seconds, 24 hours a day, every 3 feet for many kilometers,” Scott Tyler, a University of Nevada, Reno professor, hydrologist and director of their national hydrological measurement facility, said. Tyler and his colleagues have adapted distributed temperature sensing methods using lasers and fiber-optic cable for scientific purposes.
Nevada Reaches 5,000 COVID-19-Related Deaths One Year Into Pandemic
Health officials in Nevada reported 385 new cases of COVID-19 and 18 additional COVID-19 deaths Thursday.
Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Nevada. Since then, more than 295,000 people in the state have contracted the virus.
While the state has seen three distinct waves of infection, current COVID-19 metrics seem to be on a continual downward trajectory.
Nevada s two-week test positivity rate and the rolling average of new daily cases are at their lowest levels since last summer. Hospitalizations are at their lowest levels since last October.
Seattle soda tax could go statewide, Monday’s your chance to weigh in February 22, 2021 at 5:43 am
Two-liter bottles of regular and diet soda are seen for sale at a Manhattan store in 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
When the tax a $0.0175 per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages distributed in the city, with at least 40 calories per 12 ounces passed the city council in 2018, the Sweetened Beverage Tax (SBT) continued to face some criticism from the Teamsters, some low-income communities who felt it disproportionately impacted their wallets and others, despite being championed by health officials who argue soda is one of the leading causes of the nation’s obesity epidemic, diabetes, and other significant health issues.