Fungi Are At The Root Of Tropical Forest Diversity, Or Lack Thereof
The types of beneficial fungi that associate with tree roots can alter the fate of a patch of tropical forest, boosting plant diversity or, conversely, giving one tree species a distinct advantage over...
View ArticleScience-Based Data Collection Key To Better Wildland Fire Defense
A new report describes how researchers analyzed a major 2011 Texas wildfire using a scientifically based post-fire data collection approach, a system they believe will lead to improved defensive...
View ArticleWhy We Should Use Rainwater To Flush Toilets
If you live in one of four major U.S. cities chances are you're letting the benefits of a ubiquitous natural resource go right down the drain instead of using it to cut down your water bill. Toilet...
View ArticleWant To Lower Your Risk Of Being Involved In An Avalanche? Do This
Avalanches are the primary hazard for winter back country recreational trekkers and cause numerous deaths and injuries annually. These snowy adventures have grown in popularity, leading people to...
View ArticleGMO Anthocyanin-Expressing Citrus Developed
Anthocyanins, pigments that give plants their red, blue, or purple hues, are not typically produced in citrus fruits grown under tropical or subtropical conditions. Now, scientists have genetically...
View ArticleUsing Statistics To Predict Rogue Waves
Scientists have developed a mathematical model to derive the probability of extreme waves. This model uses multi-point statistics, the joint statistics of multiple points in time or space, to predict...
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Jonathan Lundgren Says USDA Suppressed Him Over Neonicotinoids - They Say...
Jonathan Lundgren, a US Department of Agriculture currently on leave facing misconduct charges, says the government is suppressing information about the dangers of pesticides, which he believes are...
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Into the New Wild
Book review:The New Wild: Why invasive species will be nature's salvation by Fred PearceIcon Books 2015 In 1910 New Zealand's great botanist Leonard Cochayne described the dramatic change in plant...
View ArticleArctic Microbes Speeding Up Glacier Melting
Current climate models are too simplistic to really account for all of the factors in climate in the present, much less predict the future, but they are being used by policy makers to anticipate the...
View ArticleHardly Any Natural Gas Pipeline Leaks, Shows Greenhouse Gas 'Watchdog'
The signatory countries of the Kyoto Protocol and the newer Paris Agreement have committed to reduce global warming, but they can only use estimates and projections to verify whether they are actually...
View ArticlePermaculture and the Edible Forest Garden: a Critical Analysis
I've been interested in the edible forest garden idea for over twenty years and have planted and designed several myself in Ireland in that time, and visited several others. But they have never lived...
View ArticleGreenland Melting Tied To Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice, Blamed On Global Warming
Vanishing Arctic sea ice, dogged weather systems over Greenland, far-flung surface ice melting on the massive island - these trends and global sea-level rise are linked by climate change, according to...
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Paltechioceras of Wrangellia
Those working in the Jurassic exposures on Vancouver Island are a determined crew. Most of the sedimentary deposits of the Jurassic are exposed in the hard to reach areas between Nootka Sound and Cape...
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Gods & Cephalopods
A great temple to the god Amon was built at Karnak in Upper Egypt around c. 1785. It is from Amon that we get his cephalopod namesake, the ammonites and also the name origin for the compound ammonia or...
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Late Cretaceous: Mosasaur Detail
A close-up view of the dentition of an ancient aquatic, carnivorous lizard, the mighty Mosasaur, from Late Cretaceous exposures on Vancouver Island. <>This well-prepped specimen is now housed in...
View ArticleNear 20-Year High: Bee-pocalypse Postponed Again, Until 2017
Despite the hype, there’s still no bee-pocalypse. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department Agriculture released its latest count of commercial honeybee hives, and although the figure dipped 2.9 percent from...
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your...Nuclear Waste?
A very unusual exchange is about to take place over the Atlantic. The UK is sending some 700 kilograms of highly enriched uranium to be disposed of in the US, the largest amount that has ever been...
View ArticlePeople Who Eat Fast Food Have More Phthalates
A recent survey revealed that people who claimed to eat more fast food also had possible exposure of higher levels of phthalates. Is that bad? In 2016, when all chemicals are scary, it certainly is,...
View ArticleNo Evidence Drilling Caused Earthquake In Texas, Finds New Study
The most comprehensive analysis to date of a series of earthquakes that included a 4.8 magnitude event in East Texas in 2012 didn't find evidence that the earthquakes were caused by wastewater...
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