ALBANY, New York, April 16 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: 115 organizations from across the state released a letter to Governor Hochul urging her to swiftly sign the bill (A8866/ S8357) that bans drilling and fracking for natural gas and oil using carbon dioxide (CO2) to ensure New Yorkers are protected. The Assembly passed the bill with a bipartisan 98-50 vote on March 12 and the Senate passed it with a bipartisan 45-17 vote on March 20. Seve  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The Association for Women in Science issued the following news release: The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) proudly announces Drexel University is the latest organization to join its partner program. "This partnership will allow all members of the Drexel community to benefit from AWIS webinars and programming, compete for scholarships and funding, and utilize AWIS's Career Center for faculty recruitment," said Dr. Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, Drexel University Vice Pro  more

ALBANY, New Tork, April 16 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement: Multiple sources and media reporting suggest that Speaker Heastie is blocking the inclusion of the NY HEAT Act in the final New York State budget, expected any day now. The NY HEAT Act is a priority of the grassroots climate movement, and politically popular legislation. The Senate and Governor both included elements of the bill in their budget proposals, and a majority of Assembly members co-sponsor the legi  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, April 16 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: Today, the Iowa Environmental Council, Food & Water Watch, and numerous environmental and public health partners petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to take action to protect Iowans from unsafe drinking water. The petition calls for immediate action under the Safe Drinking Water Act to remediate nitrate contamination in Northeast Iowa drinking water sources. The petition highlights nitrate conc  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 (TNSres) -- The National Geographic Society issued the following news release on April 16, 2024: * * * 35 Educators to Embark on Expeditions Around the World for Professional Learning and Educational Experience of a Lifetime. * * * Today, Lindblad Expeditions and the National Geographic Society proudly announce the 2024 Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship cohort, which consists of 35 educators aligned with both companies' commitment to shaping the next generation of planetary s  more

MUNICH, Germany, April 16 (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * Magnetic fields spiral around the mass monster Sagittarius A* and form up for a restart * * * The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of individual radio telescopes located all over the world, has once again observed the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using the polarised part of the radio light, the researchers discovered strong magnetic fields that spiral out from the edge of the supermassive   more

MUNICH, Germany, April 16 (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * The BepiColombo space probe measures carbon ions escaping from the atmosphere of Venus and thus helps to decipher the special development of Venus * * * During its flyby of Venus, the European-Japanese space probe Bepi Colombo for the first time found carbon ions escaping from the planet's atmosphere into space in a previously unexplored region on the night side of the planet. Investigations of the   more

ATHENS, Greece, April 17 -- The National Geographic Society issued the following news release: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced today at the Our Ocean Conference a historic ban on bottom trawling in the country's marine protected areas (MPAs). The country will end the damaging practice in its three national marine parks-one of which will be the largest in the East Mediterranean Sea-by 2026 and across all of its protected ocean areas by 2030. By doing so, Greece becomes the fir  more