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Toledo hazardous chemical leak forces school closures in Ohio: Know about symptoms of overexposure

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Toledo officials evacuated nearby residents late Tuesday and urged others to shelter indoors as crews responded to a chemical release.

Authorities in Toledo, Ohio, implemented evacuation protocols following a hazardous chemical discharge that occurred late Tuesday evening. Similarly, residents in adjacent areas received directives to stay indoors while emergency response personnel addressed the situation. Toledo officials evacuated nearby residents late Tuesday and urged others to shelter indoors as crews responded to a chemical release. The … Read more

A Hanford landfill has taken 20 million tons of radioactive and hazardous waste since 1996; its latest expansion will add 2.8 million cubic yards

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A Hanford landfill has taken 20 million tons of radioactive and hazardous waste since 1996; its latest expansion will add 2.8 million cubic yards

At the centre of Washington state’s sprawling Hanford Site, an enormous engineered landfill is being made larger as one of the United States’ biggest environmental cleanup programmes continues. According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF) has been receiving waste since 1996. Over that time, 20 million tons of … Read more

Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

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Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

Jiaen Jiang – Student Researcher in Aerospace, PC: LinkedIn Jiaen Jiang, a 16-year-old student from Rosenberg, Texas, has won a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for an engineering project designed to capture fine lunar dust before it enters future Moon habitats. Jiang’s project, called the Moondust Magnet, uses a bipolar interdigitated electrode array to create controlled … Read more