Texas A&M Aggie Researchers Work to Create the Fuel of the Future
Courtesy of A&M University Tamu Times Algae, tobacco, the food scraps from a discarded cafeteria tray — they may seem like an unlikely club, but all of these items are playing major roles in the...
View Article“Warming Hole” Delayed Climate Change Over Eastern United States
From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 50-Year Model Suggests Regional Pollution Obscured a Global Trend Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied...
View ArticleUC Berkeley and LBNL Scientists Convert Tobacco into Biofuels
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s FOLIUM Project, use light to convert the carbon dioxide and carbon from tobacco leaves into biofuels. Converting tobacco to a...
View ArticleUniversity of Maryland Sociologist Looks at People Behind Environmental Efforts
By Tom Ventsias University of Maryland Campus News What’s driving environmentally friendly legislation and “green” activism in the United States? Nobel prizewinner Al Gore and senior members of...
View ArticleUC Berkely begins work predicting looming global impacts
A prestigious group of scientists from around the world have published a paper in in the June 7 issue of the journal Nature, warning that population growth, destruction of natural ecosystems, and...
View ArticleFIU students offered rare glimpse into world of owl monkeys
Courtesy of Florida International University – FIU News The DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests in South Dade is not your typical classroom. Monkey habitats blend in seamlessly among...
View ArticleSongbirds rise above the din to learn the right notes
by Keith Brannon Tulane University Noise, whether from the city or nature, may be enough of a nuisance to convince birds to change their tune over time, according to a new study co-authored by a Tulane...
View ArticleSeabirds study shows plastic pollution reaching surprising levels off coast...
Courtesy of The University of British Columbia Plastic pollution off the northwest coast of North America is reaching the level of the notoriously polluted North Sea, according to a new study led by a...
View Article‘God Particle’ discovery: Why it matters
Courtesy of Florida International University FIU scientists help find “God Particle” Physicists on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced July 4 that they have observed a new...
View ArticleRice researchers invent paintable battery
Courtesy of Rice University Technique could turn any surface into a lithium-ion battery; may be combined with solar cells Researchers at Rice University have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be...
View ArticleGroundbreaking culinary medicine collaboration announced by Tulane University...
Courtesy of Tulane University Tulane University teams with Johnson & Wales University to unite doctors and chefs in improving the nation’s health. Tulane University School of Medicine and Johnson...
View ArticleNumber of known amphibian species soars, despite global decline
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center Publicity over the past 25 years about the decline of amphibians worldwide has had one positive effect: More and more biologists began scouring the planet for...
View ArticleMigratory birds may reveal further impact of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The full impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has yet to reveal itself, say researchers in the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The largest-ever accidental release of...
View ArticleU.S. Students Experience Hands-on Science in Greenland
Courtesy of the National Science Foundation Students from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New York and Washington were in Greenland this summer as part of the Joint Science Education Program, a...
View ArticlePrimitive-plant uber-geek’s heart belongs to lycopods
By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate...
View ArticleTwo degrees is too much for most coral reefs
From the University of Melbourne The world’s corals and coral reefs face severe degradation if global-mean temperatures rise 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, an international study has found. The...
View ArticleGreenland Glacier suffers one of the highest shrinkages on record
From the University of Sheffield Greenland’s longest observed glacier has suffered one of the highest shrinkages in its history, a climate expert from the University of Sheffield working with a team of...
View ArticleContaminated site yields wealth of information on microbes 10 feet under
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Naturally occurring bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico did a great job helping to clean up 2010’s huge Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but bacteria can do even heavier lifting....
View ArticleFirst video footage of unstudied West African seahorse released
Courtesy University of British Columbia Researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Project Seahorse today released the first-ever footage of a little-known seahorse species. The video was...
View ArticleAir pollution study clears the air on diesel versus gas emissions
Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Sarah Yang Are gasoline-fueled cars or large diesel trucks the bigger source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), a major component of smog? UC Berkeley...
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