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Syria's peace talks need more women at the table
The human suffering in Syria is beyond comprehension. Years of conflict have forced millions from their homes and left hundreds of thousands dead or wounded. A whole generation is growing up without security and without proper access to education and healthcare. The only long term solution to the Read More...
Hidden cellphones in the rainforest are exposing illegal logging practices
illustrates the problem vividly: 48 football fields worth of rainforest are destroyed every minute. It's startling, but Topher White might have a partial solution. White is the CEO of Rainforest Connection, a startup that collects old smartphones, retrofits them with solar panels, sticks Read More...
Solar farms to create natural habitats for threatened species
Most large-scale solar installations are placed on natural lands where the sunlight can best be captured, and that may actually be a benefit to the wildlife living in that habitat. Wildlife charity RSPB and clean tech company Anesco have created a project to boost threatened wildlife at the Read More...
We might run out of oil, so we should run cars on poop
The world has a poop problem. In the U.S., the challenge is biggest on farms: livestock produces more than a billion tons of solid waste a year, or roughly 87,000 pounds of shit a second. That's more than 130 times greater than the amount of human waste that goes into sewers. Farm Read More...
Plant-based foods now have a lobbying voice in Washington
America is full of lobby organizations. The dairy and meat industries, for example, are making sure that their voices are well heard in Washington D.C. But, as science keeps confirming, their missions to maximize meat and milk in the American diet are not in the best health interests of the people. Read More...
Study: Dancing is better than exercising for your health
People who took a dance class improved their fitness three times more than non-dancers. Even if you’re up in years and out of shape, you should be dancing, according to a new study. A group of 57 people, all sedentary, Spanish-speaking Latinos around age 65, were assigned a program for four Read More...
8 strong, herbal antibiotics to help beat infection
Antibiotics are some of the most commonly prescribed medications, sometimes over-prescribed for conditions such as sore throats or bronchitis, which are usually viral and cannot be treated with antibiotics. If they’re not doing much to help a condition, then they’re only providing the side Read More...
How carbon dioxide from the air can boost batteries
Researchers employ a novel electrochemical process to make carbon nanotubes from ambient carbon dioxide and use them to boost battery performance. by Mike Orcutt March 7, 2016 Sponsored by There is little economic incentive to capture carbon dioxide from power-plant exhaust or suck it directly from Read More...
You’ll eat bugs. These investors are betting millions on it
Greg Sewitz and Gabi Lewis are used to people laughing at them. Three years ago the two college roommates ordered two boxes of live crickets off the Internet, the sort you might feed your pet iguana. They promptly shoved the two shoebox-sized containers of insects into the freezer. Later, they Read More...
The kickstarter kings who taught the world to crowdfund
One cold February night in 2013, Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost ducked into a Brooklyn bar for a drink and some R&D. The two friends and designers, co-owners of a firm called Studio Neat, had both gotten into mixology recently. They were wondering what their in-home bars might be missing. Like so Read More...