CAMDEN, New Jersey, Feb. 2 -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2022: American Water (NYSE: AWK), the nation's largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, announced today applications are now being accepted by its participating state subsidiaries for the company's 2022 Environmental Grant Program awards. The grant awards will be available in American Water service areas in 12 states: California, Hawaii, Illinois, India more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2022: Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that his office filed two separate lawsuits against neglectful landlords to protect District residents in Ward 5 and Ward 2 from displacement and remedy hazardous housing conditions. In a lawsuit against the owners and managers of the apartment complex at 65 through 97 Hawaii Avenue NE and 66 and 98 Webster Street NE ("Haw more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 1 -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2022: Global research and education leader Wiley today announced a new pilot agreement with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) to accelerate the publication of open access articles across 61 SCELC members and affiliates. The agreement supports researchers at participating institutions - which span the U.S. states of California, Texas, Hawaii and others - by delivering un more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 31 (TNSRep) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Astronomy in Hawaii supports employment of 1,313 residents and had a total economic impact (output of goods and services) of $221 million on the state in 2019, according to a University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO) update released January 30, 2022. The update found that astronomy generated $110 million in direct expenditures in Hawaii--purchases from local businesses, salaries a more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: An asteroid bigger than the Manoa campus at the University of Hawaii, discovered by a UH Institute for Astronomy telescope atop Haleakala, Maui, is only the second-known object of its kind ever found. The near-Earth object, asteroid 2020 XL5, was discovered by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS)-1 in December 2020. The object is an Earth Trojan asteroid, which is an more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 4 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2022: Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), University of Maryland and University of Paris-Saclay has traced the movement of 10,000 galaxies and clusters of galaxies, the dominant congregations of matter, more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 2 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A University of Hawaii at Manoa project to detect ice deposits below the surface of the Moon received a major boost from NASA. Five scientists in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) have been awarded a three-year, $2,945,704 grant to develop technology for the NASA Cosmic Ray Lunar Sounder (CoRaLS) mission, which was initiated by UH Manoa more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 4 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaii astronomer Nader Haghighipour has allowed scientists to quickly detect a transiting planet with two suns. Termed circumbinary planets, these objects orbit around a pair of stars. For years, these planets were merely the subject of science fiction, like Tatooine in Star Wars. However, thanks to NASA's successful planet-hunting Kepler and Tran more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The coexistence of diverse microbes in the open ocean is made possible by staggering the timing of nutrient uptake, according to a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution by a group of researchers from 13 institutions, including the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Microorganisms are highly abundant on the ocean surface, reaching densities exceeding a billion organisms per liter. Collectively more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 1 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Local fisheries and their associated biodiversity benefit from the transfer of larvae between reefs, with some benefitting more than others, prompting recommendations to protect larval connectivity among coral reefs. A team of international researchers, led in part by the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) within the University of Hawaii at Manoa, emphasize that coral reef connectivity is cru more PR