PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 7 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Two federal environmental standards regulating lead hazards in homes and child care facilities have different maximum thresholds, a discrepancy putting more than 35,000 kids in the United States at increased risk of lead poisoning. That's according to a new study led by a Brown University researcher as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moves to revise protective standards for dust lead levels o more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Aug. 7 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The bottom area of low oxygen in Louisiana coastal waters west of the Mississippi River, commonly known as the "Dead Zone," was mapped at a much smaller-than-average size this summer. The area was 2,117 square miles, which is larger than Rhode Island but smaller than Delaware, and well below the projected estimate of 7,769 square miles. Mississippi River discharge and nitrogen loads were high in Ma more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Aug. 4: Governor Murphy today advised individuals traveling to New Jersey from additional states with significant community spread of COVID-19 to quarantine for a 14-day period from the time of last contact within the identified state. The updated advisory includes the addition of Rhode Island, with both the District of Columbia and Delaware removed from the list, bringing the total to 35 states  more PR

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 5 -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-New York, issued the following news release on Aug. 4: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that an additional state meets the metrics to qualify for the travel advisory requiring individuals who have traveled to New York from those states, all of which have significant community spread, to quarantine for 14 days. The newly-added state is Rhode Island. Delaware and Washington, D.C. have been removed. The quarantine applies to any person arriv more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 29 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: An international team discovered a previously unrecognized ocean current that transports water to one of the world's largest "waterfalls" in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow into the deep North Atlantic. While investigating the pathways that water takes to feed this major waterfall, the research team identified a surprising path of the cold and dense water flowing at depth, whic more PR