PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 23, 2020) — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Associate Deputy Administrator Doug Benevento announced that the Virginia Department of Public Health was selected to receive a $1.3 million grant.

NEWARK — Today, U.S.

WASHINGTON (October 23, 2020) — Today, at multiple events across the country in Grand Rapids, Mich.; Benton Harbor, Mich.; Newark, N.J.; and a virtual event for Virginia, U.S.

ATLANTA (October 22, 2020) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with Proctor Creek residents and stakeholders, announced the launch of the Proctor Creek Watershed Story Map.

DALLAS – (Oct 21, 2020) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) a grant for $536,673 to support the state’s leaking underground storage tank program.

Scientists have devised a method for mapping in unprecedented detail the thickets of slippery sugar molecules that help shield HIV from the immune system. Mapping these shields will give researchers a more complete understanding of why antibodies react to some spots on the virus but not others, and may shape the design of new vaccines that target the most vulnerable sites on viruses.

A 14,000-year paleoecological reconstruction of the sub-Antarctic islands has found that seabird establishment occurred during a period of regional cooling 5,000 years ago. Their populations, in turn, shifted the Falkland Islands ecosystems through the deposit of high concentrations of guano that helped nourish tussac, produce peat and increase the incidence of fire.

Stress is present everywhere, even bacteria and plant cells have to cope with it. They express various specific stress proteins, but how exactly this line of defense works is often not clear. A group of scientists has now discovered a protective mechanism in cyanobacteria as well as in chloroplasts of plant cells.

Sponges are filter feeders that live on particulate matter -- but they can also ingest microscopic fragments of plastics and other pollutants of anthropogenic origin. They can therefore serve as useful bioindicators of the health of marine ecosystems.

The critically endangered vaquita has survived in low numbers in its native Gulf of California for hundreds of thousands of years, a new genetic analysis has found. The study found little sign of inbreeding or other risks often associated with small populations.