Earth Sciences

Duckweed: Pest Has Potential To Become Biofuel Powerhouse

placement of the Spirodela genome as a basal monocot species will serve as a new reference for all flowering ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2025 - 12:55pm

Yayyy Bad Weather: The Carbon Sequestration Benefit Of Typhoons

warming, either. "You'd have to weather all the volcanic rocks in the world to reduce the CO2 ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2008 - 10:00am

Did Dinosaurs Die Because They Weren't Fat Enough?

to the extinction of... dinosaurs. Humans, like all mammals, have two kinds of adipose tissue, white ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2008 - 10:09am

Global Cooling- What Would Earth Be Like?

Global warming gets all the press today but there was a time when pollution-caused global cooling ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2009 - 12:43pm

How To Make Tobacco Popular Again- Turn It Into Biofuel

Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s.   Sustainable, activists said, because they refused to do ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2009 - 5:35pm

Biofuels have different meaning to different people.

There are 5 specific groups working on biofuel and all with different meanings and purposes and ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 8 2010 - 4:56pm

Volcano In Iceland Grounds UK Flights

facing long delays in getting home.  All non-emergency flights have been banned within UK airspace. ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 18 2010 - 11:58pm

Justus Von Liebig&The Law Of The Minimum

nutrients is deficient, plant growth will be poor even when all other essential nutrients are ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 19 2010 - 3:04pm

Organic Carbon In Meteorites Came From Mars

all life on Earth, have been found in meteorites from Mars but scientists have been unsure how this ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2012 - 6:17pm

Fracking Goes To China

China, as you would expect with all those people, is the world's biggest energy guzzler.  They ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2012 - 4:00am