Environment
- How Plant Leaves Grow Their Teeth
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A peptide and its receptors work to regulate auxin response and control leaf tooth growth in plants. The plant hormone auxin has been known to take part in the development of leaf teeth, but the exact mechanism of their formation has been a mystery up til ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2016 - 9:01pm
- Puzzle: What's Gene Edited To Be Drought Resistant But Not A GMO? Corn
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With GMOs going off patent, anti-science activists and the PR groups running interference for them (such as US Right To Know and Sourcewatch) are running out of time to use one of the arguments they love most to disguise the fact that they hate science; th ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 19 2016 - 9:01am
- Feedback on the Forest Garden
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My last post dealt with the permaculture edible forest garden, and it received some commentary on a couple of Facebook groups and permaculture forums. A lot of the responses were, predictably, from permaculture advocates who took umbrage at my having deig ...
Blog Post - Graham Strouts - Sep 21 2016 - 4:33pm
- Bialowiezça: the Myth of the Primeval Forest
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Over the past few weeks there have a been a series of reports raising concerns about the felling of old-growth trees in the ancient Bialowiezça forest in eastern Poland. A recent piece in the Guardian begins ...
Blog Post - Graham Strouts - Sep 22 2016 - 4:44am
- The Cost of Australia’s GM Canola Moratorium
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Substantial environment impacts due to rejection of GM canola ...
Blog Post - Stuart Smyth - Sep 26 2016 - 3:56pm
- Rogue Environmentalism: How Environmental Defense Fund Hijacked American Fishing, Using Walmart Funding
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Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), one of the nation's largest environmental groups, which has been bankrolled with $50 million from the heirs to the Walmart fortune, has spent millions of dollars pushing a wholesale change in how the U.S. manages its ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2016 - 2:42pm
- Petri Nets Tool Wins Innovation Prize At Agriculture Conference
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A mathematical model that assists in decision-making at a facility devoted to the cultivation and production of the common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) has received the prize for the best scientific contribution during the 2nd International Food Operation ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2016 - 11:00am
- President Elect Trump- Why Climate Change Is No Longer A Political Issue Outside The US
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Donald Trump has just been elected as US president, as a Republican climate skeptic. So if you are from the US you may get the impression that this is a political debate between “lefties” who think climate change is real and “righties” who think it isn’t. ...
Article - Robert Walker - Oct 26 2018 - 3:50am
- Back to Square 1- First Steps in Climate Science
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Back to Square 1- First Steps in Climate Science Step 1- we humans discover that the Arctic accumulates more heat on a summer's day then the equatorial regions. Step 2- we realise that our atmosphere is heated not so much directly by the sun but by h ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 20 2016 - 8:31am
- Order Patterned With Chaos- How Climate Is Predicted For Decades- With Exact Forecasts Only For Days
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How can we predict the climate so far ahead when we can't do an accurate weather forecast even ten days ahead? Well it is remarkable that we can forecast our weather even one day ahead, and by looking at how the forecasters do that we can begin to un ...
Article - Robert Walker - Apr 22 2019 - 8:32am
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