Check out the recent media coverage of sustainability-related programs and practices at UNC:
Threats to Wildlife Often Linger Long After Accidents
The Wall Street Journal
Driven deep into Gulf Coast waterways by wind and seasonally high tides, the spreading oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon accident could cause serious ecological and wildlife-health consequences long after signs of surface damage have been erased. ...But the concentrated spillage from the Deepwater Horizon well overwhelms the natural background levels, researchers said, and the oil will be carried into more vulnerable intertidal zones. "The oil will come in on the tide and penetrate as far as the tide penetrates," said marine ecologist Charles Peterson at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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Study on nuke plants, cancer planned
The Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pa.)
Two decades after it last did so, the federal government is taking a new look at whether people who live near nuclear plants have a higher risk of getting cancer. ...Dr. Steven Wing, a University of North Carolina professor of epidemiology, said he and assistants found lung cancer and leukemia rates five to 10 times higher downwind of TMI than upwind. Wing was forbidden by a judge in 1996 from presenting his findings in court on behalf of 2,000 residents who sued TMI owners and others for alleged personal injuries stemming from the accident.Click here to read more.
UNC students on bike trip to raise awareness
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Three students from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill have embarked on a 700-mile bike trip. Their mission: To bring attention to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit organization that empowers children from low-income communities by building their entrepreneurial skills. The three Kenan-Flagler students, Michael Yehle, Kai Zeng and Andrew Fu, departed from UNC on Friday with a delegation of other bikers who joined them for the first day of their journey.
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Moving beyond crude oil (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The bad news is that crude oil now costs more than $80 a barrel. The good news is that crude oil now costs more than $80 a barrel. The news is bad in the short term because the price of everything we use will increase. Gas at the pump. Manufactured goods that use oil during manufacturing and shipment to consumers. Even food, which depends heavily on oil for planting, harvesting and transportation. (John J. W. Rogers is retired as the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of geology at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
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