Environment
Orange is the new green: orange peels revive a forest
23 Aug 2017
An area covered in orange peels in the 1990s turned into a lush forest nearly 20 years later, showcasing the unique power of agricultural waste to regenerate a forest and also to sequester a significant amount of carbon at no cost
Hidden river once flowed beneath Antarctic ice
23 Aug 2017
Global warming: doomsday could be only 3 years away
05 Aug 2017
Although climate change may now rank alongside ISIS as the world’s most feared security threat according to a new Pew report, awareness of the horrors that global warming will unleash in the future is not as widespread as it should be
Two degrees of warming already baked in
02 Aug 2017
Update on the Larsen-C iceberg breakaway
02 Aug 2017
Rush hour pollution may be more dangerous than you think
22 Jul 2017
The first in-car measurements of exposure to pollutants that cause oxidative stress during rush hour commutes shows the levels of some forms of harmful particulate matter inside car cabins to be twice as high as previously believed
Treated hydraulic fracturing wastewater may pollute water sources for years
20 Jul 2017
Researchers have recently discovered that releasing millions of gallons of treated hydraulic fracturing wastewater each year into area surface waters may have longer-lasting effects than originally thought