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1 month ago | 
vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson |Olivia Gieger
BURLINGTON — A federal judge in Burlington heard arguments Monday in the case of a Tufts University student who was arrested by immigration agents in Massachusetts late last month and then transferred to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana via Vermont. Judge William Sessions didn’t immediately rule during the hearing on the challenge by the student, Rümeysa Öztürk, to ICE’s decision to detain her.
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1 month ago | 
vtdigger.org | Olivia Gieger
A log cut in Vermont today likely goes to Canada for processing and then back again for sale as lumber, state officials told the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry.
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2 months ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Calli McMurray |Mark Humphries |Olivia Gieger
Whenever William Smith runs a calcium imaging experiment, he spends 40 minutes staring at a screen. “It gives you a lot of reflective and contemplative time to think about what’s going on,” says Smith, a graduate student in Stefan Pulver’s lab at the University of St Andrews. During these reflections, Smith says he started to wonder how much energy he was using, and in turn how much carbon that released into the atmosphere. So he decided to find out.
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2 months ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Ashley Juavinett |Angie Voyles Askham |Austin Coley |Olivia Gieger
It is widely accepted that decades of publicly funded scientific research have helped us develop novel vaccines, reduce deaths from cancer and extend our life expectancies. On the neuroscience front, we have translated brain activity into speech as well as movement, stimulated deep parts of the brain to alleviate symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and identified the genetic causes of some types of epilepsy—largely thanks to U.S. government funding.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
insideclimatenews.org | Olivia Gieger
After years of halting progress, New York Governor Kathy Hochul finally signed the state’s climate superfund into law in the waning hours of 2024. The landmark legislation follows the “polluter pays” approach that a traditional, federally regulated superfund applies to ground and water pollution, and it expands the doctrine to the costs of damages from climate change, where greenhouse emissions are the analogous pollution.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
ecotopical.com | Olivia Gieger
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
dailyyonder.com | Olivia Gieger
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over a long causeway, you’ll finally reach the island city of Eastport, 40 miles from the transmission line’s origin. Here, at the line’s terminus, sits the U.S.’s easternmost city and the East Coast’s deepest port, once a thriving hub of imports by sea.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Austin Coley |Olivia Gieger |Nancy Padilla-Coreano
Senior reporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Craft and careers, Academia, Arts, Science and society, Vision In 1989, long before he became a neuroscientist, Bryan W. Jones stopped by a thrift shop in Brooklyn and, on a whim, bought a used Leica M6 camera. The purchase changed his life.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
canarymedia.com | Olivia Gieger
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
mainemorningstar.com | Olivia Gieger
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over a long causeway, you’ll finally reach the island city of Eastport, 40 miles from the transmission line’s origin.
