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Herbicide Use To Increase Dramatically
Posted: August 15, 2014The US is poised to ‘deregulate’ GMO corn, soybean and cotton varieties resistant to the herbicides 2,4-D and dicamba. The result will be a big increase in the use of…
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Plant Language
Posted: August 15, 2014A Virginia Tech scientist has discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genetic information with one another. The finding…
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Habitat protection for the Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Posted: August 15, 2014The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect more than a half-million acres of critical habitat across the West for the yellow-billed cuckoo, a songbird that lives along…
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The power of distributed power!
Posted: August 14, 2014Once upon a time when a big power plant retired, it was replaced by one as big or bigger. But not anymore. Energy efficiency is increasingly reducing the need for…
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Harnessing High-Altitude Wind Energy
Posted: August 14, 2014Researchers have discovered that the world’s energy needs could easily be met by harnessing the power potential of high-altitude winds. Developers in an emerging field known as airborne wind energy…
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What can we learn from the California Rim Fire?
Posted: August 14, 2014August 17, 2014 will mark the one year anniversary of the Rim Fire in the California Sierra Nevadas. It was dubbed the Rim Fire due to its proximity to the…
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duh DUN… It’s Shark Week!
Posted: August 13, 2014It’s time for the 27th annual Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, featuring a solid week of shark-centric programming for viewers who just can’t get enough of … factually incorrect…
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Will California land the Tesla Gigafactory?
Posted: August 13, 2014Tesla Motors’ proposed “Gigafactory,” Elon Musk’s vision of a massive factory that would revamp the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries and then sharply reduce their cost, still does not…
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Engineering Fruit Flies May Help Crops
Posted: August 13, 2014We’ve genetically-modified crops to enhance desired traits such as increased resistance to herbicides or pesticides. Nonetheless, pests still infest crops around the world. In an attempt to control these pests,…
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The cost of marine debris
Posted: August 12, 2014Marine debris has many impacts on the ocean, wildlife, and coastal communities. A NOAA Marine Debris Program economic study released today shows that it can also have considerable economic costs…
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