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UpdatedFri, Jan 8, 2021 at 4:16 pm ET Reply There were 33 students from the Hudson Valley selected to be Regeneron Scholars for 2021. (Shutterstock) OSSINING, NY — The top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2021 were announced Thursday by the Society for Science, and seven of the scholars go to Ossining High School. "Congrats to our amazing students!" district officials said in an announcement. OHS had the most among the 33 students from the Hudson Valley reaching the Scholar level, followed closely by Byram Hills High School, whose science research program was the model fo...

Shoot it down is because this is a message to the united states. that dispels from the iranian side the notion that president trump put out there yesterday saying maybe this was some rogue iranian commander who shot down this drone, maybe this was some sort of mistake. the iranians certainly not saying that, they say they were tracking this aircraft and were tracking the drone. they said they tried to get in touch with the drone four times, radioed warnings to it and then shot it down when it entered iranian airspace. the iranians say the remaining pieces are very small because that was only w...

In 1997, captain moore discovered a massive garbage patch in the north pacific. now his team has confirmed the existence of another further south off the coast of chile and peru. captain moore estimates it to be about 2 million square kilometers larger than mexico. it formed winds around a persistent high pressure system drive ocean currents creating a vortex known as gyres and causing debris to collect in a central location. >> i call it a plastic soup. if you think of the ocean as the liquid in a soup, we have gone from, you know, creamy to extra chunky. >> reporter: captain moore and his te...

Against these utilities has started. i think this is a progressive step forward that is typically unusual of denr. >> could this leak at the dan river plant have been prevented? was it -- was this the sort of thing that was foreseen, that people were worried about with those lawsuits they were filing? >> yes. this was absolutely 100% preventable, rachel. what we know is that these coal ash ponds, anytime they're storing toxic coal ash in an unlined hole in the ground adjacent to our surface waters, that there's a risk to the public. there's a risk to our drinking water, the public's right for ...

Prudent action that i have seen diener take since the litigation against these utilities has started. i think this is a progressive step forward that is typically unusual of diener. >> could this leak at the dan river plant have been prevented? was it -- was this the sort of thing that was foreseen, that people were worried about with those lawsuits they were filing? >> yes. this was absolutely 100% preventable, rachel. what we know is that these coal ash ponds, anytime they're storing toix coal ash in an unlined hole in the ground adjacent to our surface waters, that there's a risk to the pub...