Tag: environment

sustainable rubber

Snap Your Shiny Suspenders for Sustainable Rubber

26/04/2017

Findings by Delaware scientists could transform the multi-billion-dollar plastics and rubber industries...

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star nosed mole

Know Your Moles: The Star-Nosed Mole

24/04/2017

Strange-looking creature yields surprising insights about nerves, brains and extreme adaptation...

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Frog Slime: The Cure for the Common Cold… Almost

20/04/2017

Frog slime kills flu virus ...

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Shell Beans, Not Schools: In Search of the WIld Fava Bean

17/04/2017

Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today's fava beans...

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Sex Obsession Kills Snakes! Randy Reptiles’ Reckless Rutting

11/04/2017

Snake orgy research reveals s-s-secret to longer life...

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Anthropocene rock

The Anthropocene Era: Setting it in Stone

30/03/2017

Rocks that tell our industrial history ...

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oranges, water purification

When Life Hands You Oranges…. Water Purification With Peel

26/03/2017

Wastewater cleaned thanks to a new absorbent material made from fruit peels ...

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Unseasonable Weather? Blame Liberals!

19/03/2017

Democrats and Republicans draw different conclusions when seasons are too hot or too cold ...

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Towards a Sustainable Music

18/03/2017

Making a living is just one aspect of the sustainable music industry that isn't happening...

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The Ranavirus: How Do You Give Antibiotics to a Toad?

16/03/2017

A virus lethal to amphibians is spreading across Portugal ...

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Stop Playing God! The Downside to Resurrecting Extinct Species

03/03/2017

Resurrecting extinct species might come at a terrible cost ...

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environmental home by pixabay and congerdesign

Can Your Home be Both Energy Efficient and Stylish?

27/02/2017

Ways to to save money on your energy costs while also reducing your carbon footprint...

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anti trump protests

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017

No book burning is required when the masses of the consumer state do not read books....

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basking shark

Going Anywhere for your Hols? Basking Sharks like Winter Sun too.

26/02/2017

Winter habits of Britain's basking sharks revealed ...

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Cannabis farm

It’s Why They Call it Skunk: Cannabis and Pollution

25/02/2017

Legal marijuana sales creating escalating damage to the environment ...

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pier, blue economy

Oceans of Lucre: Towards a Lasting ‘Blue Economy’

23/02/2017

Marine ecologist offers suggestions for achieving a strong, lasting 'blue economy' ...

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3d printed building

Print Me a New House, Boffin! Digital Fabrication

22/02/2017

Digital fabrication in architecture ...

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Canadian Glacier, rising sea levels

Rising Sea Levels? Global Warming? Blame Canada!

19/02/2017

Canadian glaciers now major contributor to sea level change, UCI study shows ...

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anti trump protests

Anti-Trump Protests? Yes Please. Pro-Democrats Protests? No Thanks.

26/01/2017

Anti-Trump protests will lead nowhere if allowed to be channeled into the service of the Democratic Party. ...

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Cutting Trees to Save Trees. A Central Africa Paradox

19/01/2017

Risk of tree species disappearing in central Africa 'a major concern,' say researchers ...

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Crystal Clear Carbon Capture

14/01/2017

Crystallization method offers new option for carbon capture from ambient air ...

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To Mow a Meadow (Green Scythe Fair)

12/01/2017

Remember where your food comes from. Remember the hands that toiled for you....

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Ancient city

Nothing New Under the Sun – How Prehistory Tackled Global Warming

29/12/2016

Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems ...

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Imaginative christmas

Have An Imaginative Christmas

25/12/2016

Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination....

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Tracking Global Warming With Mother of Pearl : The Ocean’s Tree-Rings

24/12/2016

Ocean temperatures faithfully recorded in mother-of-pearl ...

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Swiss erosion grafitti

Street Art Goes Rural: Swiss Erosion Grafitti

19/12/2016

Determining erosion rates via painting...

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midified sawdust

Modified Sawdust Mops Up Oil Spills

14/12/2016

Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills ...

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Two Faces, One Evil: The Bi-Party Sham of US Democracy

14/12/2016

Clinton, Trump, Putin - Put any one of them in the White House, the rich still get richer...

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Printone

3D Print Your Own Music Career (Don’t Blame Us if it’s Short-Lived)

10/12/2016

3-D printed wind instruments in any shape or form...

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Bagpipes

A Wedding Without a Bagpipe is Like a Funeral

10/12/2016

Bagpiping provides a route straight to the heart of another culture....

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