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A conservation movement that began in the United Kingdom is gaining traction among environmentalists here in the U.S.They're urging homeowners to put away their lawn mowers for a month and let the grass and weeds grow wild.WXXI was invited to the backyard of a Brighton resident who's pushing 'No Mow May.'
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While methane doesn’t make up a large share of greenhouse gas emissions, it’s more harmful than carbon and other more common pollutants. And it can be curbed dramatically by plugging old wells that leak the gas.
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High lake levels have been pulling at the shoreline all season, damaging protective structures and coming into people's yards and homes -- but the water…
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A renewed effort to fight invasive mussels in the Great Lakes is underway.Invasive quagga and zebra mussels aren’t new to the Great Lakes. But according…
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RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) is partnering with a local company to turn dairy industry waste into a useful byproduct.Scientists are…
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Three scientists from the United States, France and Canada have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for advances in laser physics. Half the $1 million…
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( WXXI News & AP) There are Rochester connections for 2 of the 3 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics which was announced early Tuesday.Three scientists…
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The Rochester Museum and Science Center has named a new President & CEO.Hillary Olson, who is an Ogden native and Brockport High School graduate, comes to…
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The largest surveillance and monitoring vessel on the Great Lakes is in Rochester.The “Lake Guardian” is spending all of 2018 on Lake Ontario, to monitor…
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Researchers at the University of Rochester are developing ways to improve lie detection, with the hope that it could lead to more accurate airport…
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NASA plans to launch the $8.8 billion dollar James Webb Telescope in the spring of 2019, and a Rochester Institute of Technology professor will be among…
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The University of Rochester is participating in what is described as the largest long-term study to date of the developing brains of children and young…