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Science & Tech News tagged with Environment

Chemically Enhancing Plants to Absorb More CO2
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, environment, humans, interesting, research, science, technology )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - greenlivingideas.com
Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, chief researcher at Tokyo University, has discovered a means to increase plants' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, which could "ease global warming and boost food production." By soaking seeds in a protein solution called Stomagen,
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Invasive Species: When Small Creatures Do Big Damage
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, humans, investigation, science, world, animals, protection, wildlife )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
If you're an invasive species, you've got it good. You can often take advantage of resources that native species are unable to use, like the way that barbed goatgrass has been able to tap the low water and nutrient levels in the serpentine soils of the we
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Monkey Calls Give Clues to Language Origins
Science & Tech  (tags: Monkey, Science, Environment, Language origins )

Alisa
- 7 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists may be a step closer to understanding the origins of human language.
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Big Freeze: Earth Could Plunge Into Sudden Ice Age | LiveScience
Science & Tech  (tags: ice age, environment, climate change, science, world, study )

Angela
- 9 days ago - livescience.com
Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again -- and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.
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The Renewable Energy and the Energy Market
Science & Tech  (tags: energy, environment )

Antonio
- 9 days ago - wikiedp.edp.pt
At present fossil fuels (oil, coal and natural gas) with nuclear power, dominate the world energy consumption, leaving it to renewable energy (hydro, wind, solar, biomass, biogas, geothermal, wave energy and tidal energy) only one market share of 13%.
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A Flight That Almost Cost Me My Marriage
Science & Tech  (tags: Television, Environment, Cost )

Nancy
- 11 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Here's the challenge: how do you illustrate, in a television report, the impact of flying on the environment?
6 comments
Gallery: The Year's Most Amazing Scientific Images
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, astronomy, climate, computer, computers, concept, design, discovery, energy, environment, Gizmos, health, history, humans, interesting, nasa, medicine, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, space, tech, world, technology )

PinkMindy
- 14 days ago - popsci.com
Popular Science has compiled an image mega-gallery, that contains 62 of the year's most amazing images . A Must See!
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Tell Obama: No Pesticide Lobbyist Nominees-Please Take Action !!!
Science & Tech  (tags: obama, environment, GeneticEngineering, science, pesticides, safety )

Tierney
- 14 days ago - change.org
Remember when the pesticide lobby attacked First Lady Michelle Obama because she wasn't championing the use of chemicals in her White House garden? Somehow a top official from CropLife -- the powerful chemical industry trade group that went after Mich
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Crews Rush to Clean Oil Spill Near Prudhoe Bay
Science & Tech  (tags: destruction, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, globalwarming, government, greenhousegases, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, politics, pollution, science, suffering, trees, water, wildlife, world, energy, environment, habitat )

Wolfweeps
- 17 days ago - newsminer.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Authorities say an oil spill near Prudhoe Bay contaminated about 8,400 square feet of snow-covered tundra. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation spokeswoman Weld Royal says oil cleanup crews rushed to the scene about 1½ miles
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Scientists Zero In On Earths Original Animal
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, environment, habitat, history, humans, interesting, investigation, news, research, science, scientists, society, world )

Cynthia
- 19 days ago - animals911.org
Sea sponges have been thought by some scientists to be the most primitive living animals, the closest living things to approximate Earth's original animal, down at the base of the tree of life for the animal kingdom.
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How Hummingbirds Get Their Nectar With Tiny Straws
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, environment, discovery, environment, habitat, interesting, research, science, scientists )

Cynthia
- 19 days ago - nytimes.com
It is harder to suck liquid through a thin straw than a wider one because of viscosity.Yet a hummingbird is able extract nectar from a flower by wrapping its tongue into a hummingbird-size straw. How?
7 comments
Parts of The Universe
Science & Tech  (tags: science, space, interesting, environment )

Zeka
- 19 days ago - veryveryfun.com
"Where do we come from? How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? How will it end?
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Food Banks Go High-Tech to Feed the Hungry
Science & Tech  (tags: activists, americans, children, child, culture, environment, ethics, family, freedoms, goodnews, government, humans, interesting, health, internet, news, philanthropy, rights, society, computer, internet, NewTechnology )

Cynthia
- 20 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.
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Biodiversity Loss Is Earth's 'Immense and Hidden' Tragedy, Darwin's 'Natural Heir' Warns
Science & Tech  (tags: biodversity, earths loss, studies, darwin natural heir, discovery, environment, research, habitat )

Simone
- 26 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Problem of biodiversity loss has been 'eased off centre stage' by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as 'Darwin's natural heir'
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Breakthrough Technology Converts CO2 to Ethanol Without Biomass
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, energy, environment, humans, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, world )

Daphna
- 29 days ago - greenlivingideas.com
Producing fuel out of thin air sounds like a pipe dream, but a new process from a biofuel company promises to be able to turn CO2 and sunlight into fuel, bypassing the current need for large amounts of agricultural land and water to produce biomass feedst
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