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 (Nature) "Our ability to model greenhouse gases and vegetation dynamics is inadequate in today's environment, and when we think out 50 to 100 years, that entire landscape is going to evolve and be much more complex," says Stan Wullschleger, the principal investigator for NGEE and a plant ecologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory....12/19
(Newswise) "Our research suggests that one needs to be aware of the different characterizations of extremes and that these characterizations require both interpretability and statistical rigor," said Auroop Ganguly....12/19 |
 (Knoxville News Sentinel) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is engaged in a multiyear, multimillion-dollar research effort to better understand how mercury behaves — and sometimes devilishly transforms itself — in the environment....12/20
(EON) Tennessee's first proton beam cancer center, located on a comprehensive medical campus in Knoxville, will include training and research in conjunction with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee....12/19.
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The 2012 budget numbers will still have to be processed and allotted to the labs by the Department of Energy, but there is beginning to be some clarity about budget impacts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory....12/20 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) If the picture is unclear about the health impact on Y-12 workers exposed to mercury, it's even murkier when evaluating the effects on off-site populations....12/19
(DOE Press Release) Last week marked the deadline for submissions to the "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" challenge, and the U.S. Department of Energy has announced that it will give Americans the chance to vote for the most innovative and promising technologies supported by the program....12/19 |
National
(Washington Post) Republicans vow to kill a bipartisan Senate agreement on a federal payroll tax cut, saying it represents the Washington ways they were elected to change....12/20
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Milken Institute last week issued a list of America's "Best-Performing Cities", which ranked U.S. metropolitan areas on factors including job growth, wage growth and growth in the high-tech economy....12/20
(Knoxville News Sentinel) While backhoes and bulldozers rumbled on top of 30-foot-deep heaps of toxic coal ash, scooping it up for storage, reporters Monday received an update on the cleanup as the third anniversary of the disaster approaches....12/20
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(New York Times) Edith Widder has spent a career studying sea creatures with the ability to make light — bioluminescence. Now, she has found a way to put bioluminescence to work to fight pollution in the Indian River Lagoon, a 156-mile estuary that scientists say is one of Florida's most precious and threatened ecosystems....12/19
(Wired) Why chocolate is so special and how it goes from harvest to the delightful goodness we know and love, especially around the holidays....12/19
(Wall Street Journal) [Video] NASA's $456 million Dawn probe of the giant asteroid Vesta has revealed one of the tallest mountains in the solar system and a landscape more rugged than Mars or the Moon....12/19