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Fixing Food Deserts
Posted: December 1, 2015Food deserts, vast expanses of urban and rural areas that are void of fresh fruit and veggies, are a growing epidemic — affecting more than 23.5 million people nationwide. Disproportionately…
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We need to use Nitrogen fertilizers more efficiently
Posted: November 30, 2015The global population is expected to increase by two to three billion people by 2050, a projection raising serious concerns about sustainable development, biodiversity and food security, but new research…
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New battery can store 10 times the energy of the next best device
Posted: November 30, 2015Industrial-scale batteries, known as flow batteries, could one day usher in widespread use of renewable energy—but only if the devices can store large amounts of energy cheaply and feed it…
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Why the Paris Climate Summit pledges are so important
Posted: November 29, 2015More than 190 countries are meeting in Paris next week to create a durable framework for addressing climate change and to implement a process to reduce greenhouse gases over time….
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Earth's first ecosystems were more complex than previously thought
Posted: November 28, 2015Computer simulations have allowed scientists to work out how a puzzling 555-million-year-old organism with no known modern relatives fed, revealing that some of the first large, complex organisms on Earth…
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Rapid plankton growth seen as indicator of carbon dioxide loading in oceans
Posted: November 27, 2015A microscopic marine alga is thriving in the North Atlantic to an extent that defies scientific predictions, suggesting swift environmental change as a result of increased carbon dioxide in the…
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New DOW weedkiller issues
Posted: November 26, 2015Dow AgroSciences, which sells seeds and pesticides to farmers, made contradictory claims to different parts of the U.S. government about its latest herbicide. The Environmental Protection Agency just found out, and…
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NASA finds answer to why Mars' atmosphere doesn't have more carbon
Posted: November 25, 2015Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere — one that is far too thin to keep water from freezing or quickly evaporating. However, geological evidence has led…
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These 10 Endangered Species are Running Out of Room to Roam
Posted: November 25, 2015It’s never been easier for us to get where we want to go, but our growing transportation systems mixed with development are taking a serious toll on wildlife, from tiny amphibians to large mammals, and pushing…
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Something not to worry about, the Earth's magnetic field flipping
Posted: November 24, 2015The intensity of Earth’s geomagnetic field has been dropping for the past 200 years, at a rate that some scientists suspect may cause the field to bottom out in 2,000…
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