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WOSU, September 23, 2019

Ballot efforts typically ramp up in the weeks before an election. The fight over Ohio’s new nuclear bailout law, though, is in full swing more than a year before a possible vote. So why the early start? One side says it’s to keep two nuclear power plants from closing, while experts say spending now may be the best investment. ...

Columbus Underground , September 23, 2019

Dr. Rattan Lal's world revolves around soil. And he understands, perhaps better than anyone, that every person's world revolves around soil. Everything we eat, each and every day, begins with soil. There is, said Lal, a "direct relationship between human wellbeing and health of the soil and the land where they live… The fact is when people are desperate, miserable and hungry, they transfer their misery to the land. And land reciprocates. There's a direct relationship between the two." ...

Interesting Engineering , September 23, 2019

An international team of scientists hailing from Ohio State University, North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found a way to capture heat and transform it into electricity using magnet particles.  ...

WOSU, September 23, 2019

Ballot efforts typically ramp up in the weeks before an election. The fight over Ohio’s new nuclear bailout law, though, is in full swing more than a year before a possible vote. ...

Yahoo, September 21, 2019

Every day the average American throws out nearly a pound of food, according to a study from the Department of Agriculture. There are plenty of reasons why good, usable food is tossed: picky kids, overstocked pantries, or even leftovers that sit in refrigerators too long. ...

TIME, September 20, 2019

There is no longer any debate that global warming is real, and that it is happening now at an alarming rate. It is transforming the global climate system before our eyes. The rise of fossil-fueled economies over the past 200 years, and especially the accelerating CO2 emissions since the end of World War II, is clearly the cause of our mounting climate crisis. But even though 99% of climate scientists recognize what is happening, it can still be difficult to grasp something of such magnitude. ...

Great Lakes Now, September 20, 2019

An estimated 6 quadrillion gallons of water sit in the five Great Lakes and their connectors. That’s 6 million billion gallons worth of water. But many Great Lakes communities get their drinking water from groundwater rather than the lakes, and the availability of this subterranean supply can be more volatile. ...

WOSU, September 13, 2019

Sometimes science and culture collide. A group of The Ohio State University researchers working in a remote region of Peru were caught in the middle this summer when upset local residents ordered them off a mountain. The team from the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center was led by Lonnie Thompson, one of the world's preeminent scholars in ice core paleoclimatology.   ...

Canton Repository, September 13, 2019

In Ohio, 67% of corn was listed as very poor, poor or fair condition. Only 33% was considered good or excellent, according to a state-issued crop condition report from USDA. ...

Port Clinton News Herald, September 12, 2019

Up until very recently, much of western Lake Erie looked green the last few weeks as another severe harmful algal bloom coated the water. This year, the bloom in Lake Erie was expected to come in at a 7.5 on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, severity index, which is based on a scale of 1 to 10, making it one of the most severe blooms in the past several decades. ...