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In an effort to maintain and fund the Patuxent Research Center’s quality of wildlife research, the U.S. Geological Survey merged it a year ago with two of its other science centers and recently announced its new name: the U.S.G.S. Eastern Ecological Science Center at Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel.
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Rusty patched bumble bee is Minnesota's state bee 2:00 pm, May 7, 2021 × Robin Trott It’s been two years since the rusty patched bumble bee became the state bee of Minnesota, a designation due in no small part to Elaine Evans, University of Minnesota Extension educator and Bee Lab researcher. Because the rusty patched bumble bee is so uncommon, researchers haven’t been able to observe nesting behaviors for more than 25 years. That data is vital for conservation efforts. Her outreach paid off last summer when Evans heard from several people familiar with her work. When Nancy Kaf...
MEAD, Neb. (DTN) — The owners of a small ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, that has become an environmental disaster are looking to sell off their adjoining 30,000-head cattle feedyard as the ethanol plant faces state litigation and angry residents. AltEn LLC, a 24-million-gallon ethanol plant, remains idle and is facing a lawsuit from the state of Nebraska over millions of gallons of toxic water that spilled on Feb. 12-13, 2021, and 84,000 tons of distillers grains from treated corn seed piled on its property that is considered too toxic to feed to animals or spread on fields. The ethanol p...
How Wendell King Found His Frequency in Erie African American radio engineer met and obliterated the 'color line' by Jonathan Burdick Union College It was June of 1917 and the United States was at war. The first American infantry troops had arrived in Europe that month and stateside manufacturers were working around the clock to keep up with wartime demand. In Schenectady, N.Y., the sprawling General Electric plant, which employed 20,000 workers, hired a few dozen students from nearby Union College for the summer. Thi...