New Organic Battery Made Using Vitamin B2
A new class of high-performing organic molecules inspired by vitamin B2 can safely store electricity from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind power in large batteries.The high-capacity flow...
View ArticleWhy Has Climate Change Taken So Long?
If man-made greenhouse gas emissions are going to cause more droughts and storm surges on a persistent basis, why did it take so long? And why is it only a concern in the last 25 years, rather than in...
View ArticleWhy Has Organic Farming Flatlined?
Organic farming should be in a Golden Age. Organic marketing groups, and the junkyard dogs they pay to attack scientists (1) finally got mandatory labeling on conventional food, the public is already...
View ArticleRice Crops That Can Save Farmers Money And Cut Pollution
There are more than 120,000 varieties of rice stored at the germplasm bank at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, but a new paper focused on varieties that met...
View ArticleEnergy Crops Are Major Flops
Whatever happened to energy crops? A decade ago, the UK authorities confidently expected farmers to devote swaths of land to growing the likes of short-rotation willow and poplar and perennial grasses....
View ArticleFarming Is Offsetting Natural Tree Cover Losses And Mitigating Climate Change
Farmers are doing a lot more than just feeding the world, they are also offsetting tropical forests declines, capturing nearly 0.75 giga-tons of carbon dioxide every year ---but global warming...
View ArticleHoney Bee Colonies Had A Worse Than Average Winter - But Don't Buy Hype About It
The number of honey bee colonies fell by nearly 12% last winter - according to a preliminary look at a survey of beekeepers, that is. The UK and Spain were worst affected this year. The prior year,...
View ArticleLaundry Adds Trade Amounts Of Flame Retardants To Surface Waters - Here's How
In recent years, litigation attorneys and environmental epidemiologists have attempted to link flame retardants, which were put in furniture and electronics to prevent immolation by national mandate,...
View ArticleChemtrails Just A Conspiracy Theory
Atmospheric scientists overwhelmingly deny the existence of a secret, elite-driven plot to release harmful chemicals into the air from high-flying aircraft, according to the first peer-reviewed journal...
View ArticleEmbryo Geometry Hopes To Explain How Vertebrates Evolved
A new hypothesis aims to explain how the complex vertebrate body, with its skeleton, muscles, nervous and cardiovascular systems, arises from a single cell during development and how these systems...
View ArticleHow Plant Leaves Grow Their Teeth
A peptide and its receptors work to regulate auxin response and control leaf tooth growth in plants.The plant hormone auxin has been known to take part in the development of leaf teeth, but the exact...
View ArticlePuzzle: What's Gene Edited To Be Drought Resistant But Not A GMO? Corn
With GMOs going off patent, anti-science activists and the PR groups running interference for them (such as US Right To Know and Sourcewatch) are running out of time to use one of the arguments they...
View ArticlePeak Radiation: Scientists Hope To Calculate Nuclear Fuel Left Inside Earth...
By 1992, environmental activist Jeremy Rifkin claimed, we would achieve Peak Oil. Fossil fuels would begin to decline. Rifkin was just going by an environmental press release but Peak Oil had a long...
View ArticleAdvocacy Group Survey Results Laud Viability Of Wind Power
Using software tools developed by the marketing group Near Zero, which has developed open-source software tools to examine where experts agree and disagree and why, a research group hosted by the...
View ArticleFeedback on the Forest Garden
My last post dealt with the permaculture edible forest garden, and it received some commentary on a couple of Facebook groups and permaculture forums. A lot of the responses were, predictably, from...
View ArticleA Win For Clean Energy
Today the House Committee on Ways and Means put a likely end to the production tax credit expiration for nuclear energy by approving H.R.5879 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the...
View ArticleBialowiezça: the Myth of the Primeval Forest
Over the past few weeks there have a been a series of reports raising concerns about the felling of old-growth trees in the ancient Bialowiezça forest in eastern Poland. A recent piece in the Guardian...
View ArticleWolves in the backyard
In a Youtube video that has been viewed more than 25 million times, George Monbiot explains with masterful clarity How Wolves Change Rivers. The short film tells the story of Yellowstone National...
View ArticleCalifornia Methane Caps Could Hurt Organic Farming Most
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law demanding that dairy cows stop producing so much methane. They are basically giant fracking wells on four legs, after all. read more
View ArticleGlobal Warming Has Made Global Warming Harder To Show
Postglacial rebound, uplift in Greenland blamed on global warming, has actually made it harder to measure ice loss due to global warming, according to a new paper in Science Advances.read more
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