WASHINGTON, July 6 -- The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture released the following written testimony by Travis Joseph, president and CEO of the American Forest Resource Council, Portland, Oregon, from a July 25, 2026, hearing entitled "Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest System": * * * Chairman Newhouse and Ranking Member Salinas, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity. On behalf of the forest products industry and those that steward our federal lands, it is an more PR

NORWICH, England, July 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of East Anglia issued the following news: * * * Dragons then and now: UEA study uncovers Britain's forgotten fantasy boom New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) highlights an overlooked chapter in British cinema, when the industry struggled to make the most of a wave of fantasy filmmaking in the early 1980s. The study, led by Dr Claire Hines, Lecturer in Film Studies at UEA, explores the rise of "sword and sorcery" films, a short-lived but ambitious trend that followed the g more PR

HAMILTON, Ontario, July 4 -- McMaster University issued the following news: * * * Four outstanding professors named University Scholars Gajendran Raveendranathan, Drew Higgins, Ryan Wylie and Francois Neville are all highly impactful researchers who have made tremendous contributions to teaching and service. - Four McMaster professors have been named 2026 University Scholars, in recognition of their research leadership, teaching, mentorship and the impact of their work. University Scholars are mid-career researchers who have distinguish more PR

HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 4 (TNSjou) -- Heidelberg University issued the following news release: * * * How Transformative Competencies Can be Integrated into Existing Degree Programs Perspective article shows how university teaching can foster responsible engagement with societal challenges - Enabling people to reflect critically on societal changes and participate in meeting major challenges is the purpose of teaching transformative competencies. In a Perspective Article, Dr Nicole Aeschbach has examined how this approach can be systemati more PR

HAMILTON, Ontario, July 4 (TNSjou) -- McMaster University issued the following news: * * * First Americans hunted largest game through Western Hemisphere, researchers find The earliest Indigenous populations in the Americas had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, archeologists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and McMaster found. - New research led by archeologists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and McMaster University reveals that the earliest Indigenous populations in the A more PR

BEDFORD PARK, Australia, July 3 -- Flinders University posted the following news: * * * Using microbes to battle pollution * The ability of bacteria to remove pollutants from soil, water, mine waste and other environments could be supercharged by a 'friendly' compatible virus, according to a study led by Flinders University. The new insights, published in Communications Biology, suggests phage virus 'bioaugmentation' offers a compelling new direction for environmental biotechnology, by harnessing the ecological roles of lysogenic phages t more PR