After fifty years of space exploration, the final frontier has already become littered. Currently, NASA is looking at ways to mitigate space litter to lessen its potential threat on future space efforts.

Excavation workers found the source of an oil sheen Tuesday that was spotted in Fall Creek on April 11, according to The Ithaca Journal.

After the Veterinary College's animal carcass digester released fluid into the Ithaca sewage system for the second time this year, administrators say the programming error which caused the incident has been fixed. 

An air pollution major in undergraduate school, Prof. Natalie Mahowald, earth and atmospheric sciences, emphasized the importance of researching climate change. “There are so many interesting scientific questions that need to be addressed, which are very policy-relevant.”

In times of widely publicized environmental issues, namely global warming, the transportation sector is often bemoaned for its contribution to carbon emissions. Though diesel exhaust certainly exhibits detrimental effects on the atmosphere, its effects on the human body attract less attention. The World Health Organization estimates that urban air pollution, to which vehicles are a significant contributor, kills 1.2 million people every year.  On Sept. 9, Prof. Oliver Gao, civil and environmental engineering, who focuses on the nexus of transportation, air quality and energy, discussed his ongoing research on the effect of different fuels on air quality measurements. 

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