Plenty of scientists try and be environmentally conscious at home, but when they walk into the lab, a new ethos takes over — one driven by productivity, budgets and the drive to publish. now a group…
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Plenty of scientists try and be environmentally conscious at home, but when they walk into the lab, a new ethos takes over — one driven by productivity, budgets and the drive to publish. now a group…
Read More @ AboutMyPlanet.com
Divers have just located thousands of square miles of previously unknown kelp forests, thanks to the predictions of a computer model. Kelp was previously thought to live only in the shallows of…
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Biological control of invasive species is notoriously fraught with risk: It’s hard to know in advance if the biocontrol agent will stay nice and well-behaved, or become an even worse menace than the…
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One way of measuring humanity’s impact on the planet is by looking at how much of the earth’s annual biomass production–the total amount of new plant growth all over the world–we use up. Using the…
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It seems there’s no end to the brilliant tricks microbes can do. Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have discovered three types of bacteria that feed on radiation. The…
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