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A Second Use for Cigarette Butts
Posted: August 5, 2014It is estimated that as many as 5.6 trillion used-cigarettes, or 766,571 metric tons, are deposited into the environment worldwide every year. That’s a lot of litter, especially when it…
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Survey Ranks U.S. as Biggest Climate Change Denier
Posted: August 5, 2014This may confirm suspicions that many of us have already had. Besides leading the world in consumer debt and military spending, the U.S. can now add climate denial to that…
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Spray-on Solar Panels?
Posted: August 4, 2014A team of scientists at the University of Sheffield are the first to fabricate perovskite solar cells using a spray-painting process – a discovery that could help cut the cost…
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Co-evolution Benefits Aborigines and Kangaroos
Posted: August 4, 2014Australia’s Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass fires to catch lizards, as they have for at least 2,000 years. A University of Utah researcher found such man-made…
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Atlantic Ocean warming linked to Pacific trade winds
Posted: August 4, 2014New research has found rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds. Currently the winds are at a level never before…
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Toledo, Ohio water problems
Posted: August 3, 2014The City of Toledo has issued a “Do Not Drink” advisory for residents served by Toledo Water after chemical tests confirmed the presence of unsafe levels of the algal toxin…
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Study predicts climate change and pollution will combine to impact food production
Posted: August 2, 2014Many studies have shown the potential for global climate change to cut food supplies. But these studies have, for the most part, ignored the interactions between increasing temperature and air…
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Surf’s Up for Clean Technology
Posted: August 1, 2014Unless your skin is about a foot thick, swimming and surfing in the Pacific Ocean for hours at a time requires a wetsuit to stay warm and comfortable. That comfort,…
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Underestimating the Impacts of Old-Growth Logging
Posted: August 1, 2014Ecologists may be underestimating the impact of logging in old-growth tropical forests by failing to account for subtleties in how different animal groups respond to the intensity of timber extraction,…
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Defending against sea level rise could make the problem worse
Posted: August 1, 2014A combination of coastal defences and rising sea levels could change typical UK tidal ranges, potentially leading to a higher risk of flooding, say scientists. The researchers wanted to find…
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