The outsized role of soil microbes for carbon sequestration
Many complexities of the carbon sequestration process remain poorly understood, despite years of research and the significant impact of this process on global climate. Now, three scientists have proposed a new approach to better understand the Read More...
You can now go to jail in Kenya when you carry a plastic bag
Kenya is aggressively battling plastic pollution with a ban on plastic bags that went into effect this week. The country has joined a list of a dozen African countries where it is now illegal to use, manufacture, or import plastic bags in Kenya. Offenders will be fined as much as $38,000, or serve Read More...
One more reason to take care of your gut: overcoming anxiety
Keeping your gut healthy should be a major focus of your preventive health strategy. More and more research shows links between your gut—the largest organ of the immune system—and degenerative diseases from cancer to heart disease and from dementia to arthritis. Now, you can add your sense of Read More...
How much can you save at the new lower-priced Whole Foods?
We already reported on Amazon’s initiative to lower the prices at Whole Foods. Yesterday was the first day of the lower prices and here’s a report on the changes. This shopper saved 12 percent on her groceries compared to last Read More...
‘Refugees are not a burden but a source of knowledge and economic development’
Politicians keep saying that refugees are the problem. They (want to) steal jobs from locals and they pose an economic burden on the host nation. Scholars keep showing the opposite, as in this new book. The reality is that countries around the world are missing out on the opportunity to welcome Read More...
Natural wonders: Enjoy these 6 waterfalls from around the world
There’s something magical to waterfalls. They can capture your fascination for a long time generating peace of mind like an extended mediation. While nothing beats watching a waterfall in its real natural beauty, here are 6 pictures that may brighten and lighten your Read More...
The biggest myth about our brains is that they are "male" or "female"
Daphna Joel was already an established neuroscientist in 2009, when she chose to launch a gender studies course at Tel Aviv University. While preparing the class curriculum, she became deeply interested in the mechanisms through which gender is formed. Her research led her to an experiment by a Read More...
Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city
On a sloping meadow near the centre of Oslo, red-tailed bumblebees gather pollen from hairy violets, spiders spin webs between maiden’s tears while hoverflies buzz between yellow daisies and white yarrow. Such a bucolic scene might normally be Read More...
Solar power to rival nuclear by end of 2017
According to a recent report by GTM Research, solar power capacity not only continues to surge worldwide, but will rival the amount of nuclear power generated across the globe by the end of this year. And by 2022, says GTM’s Stephen Lacey, the Read More...
Trash to treasure: The benefits of waste-to-energy technologies
Organic waste such as yard trimmings, paper, wood and food produces millions of tons of methane emissions at landfills every year in the U.S., but it could produce renewable natural gas and liquid fuels such as gasoline and diesel, according to a study led by Uisung Lee of the Department of Read More...