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UMass Amherst English professor and poet Martín Espada has won the National Book Award for his book “Floaters,” a collection of poetry that runs from scathing socio-political commentary to homages of family and love.
A pair of researchers at UMass Amherst recently published the results of a study that is the first to take a process-based modeling approach to understand how much CO2 rivers and streams contribute to the atmosphere.
Dongmei Feng, a civil and environmental engineering researcher, has assimilated satellite information into on-site river measurements and hydrologic models to calculate the past 35 years of river discharge in the pan-Arctic region.
Collaborating scientists at UMass Amherst and Nanjing University in China have found that steam disinfection of silicone-rubber baby bottle nipples exposes babies and the environment to micro- and nanoplastic particles.
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