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Road salt runoff's negative effects on St. Louis area streams

2 years 9 months ago
The salt runoff from years of salting the roads could be affecting the Mississippi River. Currently, chloride is a pollutant found in the river, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) states on its website that the pollutants are getting worse as the years go by, adding that salt is now part of the problem.
Liz Dowell

I would like to never hear the word “polycrisis” again

2 years 9 months ago
Nouriel Roubini is . . . not optimistic these days: What I have called megathreats others have called a “polycrisis” — which the Financial Times recently named its buzzword of the year. For her part, Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, speaks of a “confluence of calamities”. The world economy, she ...continue reading "I would like to never hear the word “polycrisis” again"
Kevin Drum

Lifetime Achiever: Arnold Donald

2 years 9 months ago
Arnold Donald possesses two rare, equally enviable and diametrically opposed gifts. He can foresee, prepare for, and ultimately manifest an unlikely and successful future, and he can successfully navigate utterly unforeseeable crises with grace and aplomb. Someone with his pedigree…
Chris King for The St. Louis American

Experian’s Treasure Trove Of PII Breached By Simply Altering URLs

2 years 9 months ago
Data brokers like Experian and Equifax pose tempting targets for malicious hackers looking to find another source for personal info they can hawk online to other malicious people. The sad thing is, no one really needs to hack their databases. They’re more than willing to just leave them exposed. In 2017, Equifax leaked personal info […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: MiniTool Power Data Recovery Personal

2 years 9 months ago
MiniTool Power Data Recovery Personal is the most cost-effective data recovery program for all common Windows system users. The 100% clean data recovery software for Windows enables you to recover unlimited data (deleted or lost) from Windows computers, memory/SD cards, USB flash drives, external hard drives, etc. On one hand, it covers all the functions […]
Gretchen Heckmann

The Hardest Construction Jobs to Fill

2 years 9 months ago
From Construction Dive:  Construction needs to find more workers, and there are no easy-to-fill jobs in the industry. In fact, according to an Associated General Contractors of America survey of its members, 91% of contractors had trouble filling positions last year, and experts say the labor crunch for these positions isn’t going to let up anytime […]
Shruthi Beedu

DOE Launches Updated Mapping Tool for Renewable Energy Builds

2 years 9 months ago
From Utility Dive:  The U.S. Department of Energy is relaunching a mapping tool designed to help identify areas of the country that are ideal for uses such as wind and solar farms, and has updated it to allow users to specify the type of project they’re siting. The Geospatial Energy Mapper, or GEM, launched in 2013 […]
Shruthi Beedu

COVID was Construction’s Top Killer in 2020

2 years 9 months ago
From Construction Dive:  COVID-19 claimed more construction worker lives in its first year than any other cause, according to a data analysis by Silver Spring, Maryland-based CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training. Based on first-of-its-kind Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, the research looked at 2020’s 224,400 construction worker deaths, both on […]
Shruthi Beedu