Earth Sciences

Plastics: What Goes Around... Gets Stuck In The Middle

everyday reminder that we have. After all, it’s hard to envision the wild landscapes that predate our ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Jun 7 2012 - 11:49am

Photosynthetic Algae- Green Factories For Alternative Fuels

further back in central metabolism. This is not all that different from what we see in human metabolism, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2012 - 8:30am

Use Of Pesticides And Organic Farming Vs GM Food

when farmers or middle men use heavy doses of pesticides on crop plants, vegetables so that all ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 24 2012 - 1:46pm

Climate Change Feeds Hurricane Sandy

the atmosphere.  The effect of all this is a weaker jet stream more prone to kinking. 3) Merging with ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Oct 29 2012 - 1:41pm

How Mars Is Like A Mexican Valley

"The bacterial communities have survived all types of cataclysms here such as the extinction of the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2012 - 2:31pm

T. Rex’s Tiny Arms – Just-So Stories And Just Wrong Stories

changing the size of body parts. We all change the size of our body parts as we grow from an embryo up to ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Dec 4 2012 - 7:51am

Wildfires Dump Massive Amounts Of Charcoal Into The Worlds' Oceans

collected 174 water samples from all over the world, including rivers like the Amazon, the Congo, the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2013 - 12:00pm

On Sea Level Rise, The IPCC Is Right- And That's Good For Us

who wanted policy action on emissions. 7 inches by 2100 is not all that scary, even 2 feet is not ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 15 2013 - 12:08pm

Invasive Plants As Biofuels Isn't Workable

temperatures, enzymes, and equipment that are all highly specific. The proportion of cellulose, lignin, and ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2013 - 8:46am

Natural Gas Is Better For Global Warming And Saves Water Too

Scanlon and her colleagues collected water use data for all 423 of the state's power plants from the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2013 - 6:31am