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Brian Maffly

  • Science Writer, University of Utah
Salt Lake City
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Brian Maffly is a Utah journalist, covering public lands for The Salt Lake Tribune, the state's largest newspaper. Brian Maffly lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and two kids.

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Utah struggles with regulating oil and gas wastewater

Utah struggles with regulating oil and gas wastewater

But the Colorado company running the 14-pond facility operated without a Utah air-quality permit for more tha…

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Great Salt Lake at near-record low level

Great Salt Lake at near-record low level

Despite the lake's ecological and economic importance to Utah, surveys indicate few residents are interested …

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BLM's secret museum of stolen artifacts

BLM's secret museum of stolen artifacts

But in the process the federal agency took on a gargantuan task - caring for and documenting more than 6,000 …

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Is Utah on the verge of oil shale bonanza?

Is Utah on the verge of oil shale bonanza?

People have squeezed oil from Western shale since the early 20th century, but it has yet to flow in commercia…

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Utah TV dumps turning into an e-waste nightmare, liability for taxpayers

Utah TV dumps turning into an e-waste nightmare, liability for taxpayers

Besides televisions, Stoddard's piles of e-waste include computer monitors, microwaves, DVD players and vacuu…

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Tropical weather patterns steer West Antarctic snowfall, ice cores reveal

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By Brian Maffly, Swati Mestri, Robert Egan Verified
| Phys.org Verified
Map of Antarctica. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center. University of Utah Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year in Antarctica, one of the coldest, windiest and driest places on Earth. New research from the University of Utah shows that tropical conditions and the oceans also influence the continent's massive ice sheets.
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How tropical weather affects West Antarctica

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By Brian Maffly
| The University of Utah
Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year on Antarctica, among the coldest, windiest, driest places on Earth. New research from the University of Utah shows that tropical conditions and the oceans also influence the continent’s massive ice sheets. Supper Rupper, professor in the School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, holds a sample of ice recovered from Antarctica and archived at the University of Utah.
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Fighting poverty today may build concern for the people of tomorrow

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By Brian Maffly, Sadie Harley, Andrew Zinin Verified
| Phys.org Verified
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Does helping people struggling to survive today make any difference for future generations? New research from the University of Utah has documented evidence that it does. Rather than viewing present-day poverty and long-term risks as competing priorities, the research team led by psychologist Kyle Fiore Law sees them as interconnected.
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