Environment

How Rice Might Easily Adapt To Climate Change

Rice accounts for nearly half the daily calories for the world's population but crops are at risk from  tsunamis and tidal surges and perhaps future unknown effects of climate change.   But naturally occurring fungi called endophytes might come to the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2011 - 11:04pm

Environmental Impact Of Lab-Grown Meat

Modern tissue engineering techniques could enable the development and production of meat grown, or ‘cultured’, in the lab. This research into in vitro meat (see figure 1 for an example) has its roots in experiments conducted by NASA, and since then, the i ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Feb 24 2012 - 1:05am

NEXT-GENERATION BIO-FUELS

Ashwini Kumar Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Centre. Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302 004, INDIA Phone: 0141-2711654 (Off.) 0141-2654100 (Resi.) 09461663610 (Mobile) E-mail: Ashwanikumar214 ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 20 2011 - 12:54am

Defining Dallas: Different grass-- Different grasshoppers

The great thing about being a scientist is that you have more adventures than anyone else!  Today I took along the kids from the Lone Star Adventure Camp on a bug hike at the Trinity River Audubon Center, exploring the insect (grasshoppers in particular) d ...

Blog Post - Mel. White - Jul 21 2011 - 1:10pm

Climate Data: National Sovereignty Ignored By UK Ruling

According to a press release from Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, a UK ruling forces the release of other nations property, in this case climate data. We are talking about some legal left-overs in the so-called Climategate ca ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Jul 29 2011 - 12:43am

Resistance To GM Crops

Large amounts of research and money have been invested in the development of transgenic, or GM (genetically modified) crops. These crops are genetically engineered to withstand drought, excessive rain or other weather conditions, or to improve their yield ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Feb 23 2012 - 11:50pm

Defining Dallas: Drought And The Heat Island Effect

As with everything, my insatiable curiosity leads me to adventures.  This past week I went on a hike to one of the remote areas of Trinity River Audubon Center to view a pond that I hadn't seen before (because you have to hack your way through a lot o ...

Article - Mel. White - Aug 25 2011 - 2:34pm

Nary A Drop To Drink

“What do you think we’ll fight World War III over?” It was an interesting question for a third date, and the first thing my (now ex-) boyfriend and I disagreed on.  I said “cheap oil” and he answered “water.” Our difference of opinion was largely a product ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Aug 11 2011 - 12:15am

What's Better For Food Waste, Landfill Or Garbage Disposal?

Assuming you don't have the space for a smelly compost heap but want to be as environmentally responsible as possible, what’s the most responsible way to dispose of a banana peel, or any other food waste? A new study about the impact of various food w ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2011 - 11:47am

Making Plastic From Beef- It's Better Than The Other Way Around

University of Alberta researcher David Bressler has an idea for the future of recycling. Using throwaway parts of beef carcasses that were sidelined from the value-added production process after Mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) dam ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2011 - 3:58pm