This Is The State Of The World's Plants, By The Numbers
Environment It's a green, green world How many plants have you seen today? Crops in fields? Towering trees? That wilting houseplant you forgot to water? Go ahead, water it, I'll wait.
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Science Scientists are turning bread into high-tech foam Scientists are turning bread into carbon nanofoam…
View ArticleCutting Black Carbon Could Save Us
Environment But it won't save the ice caps Greenhouse gas gets all the attention. Most agree it is the main cause of our warming planet. But scientists say black carbon, or soot—which comes from...
View ArticleForests On The Tibetan Plateau May Be Growing Faster Thanks To Climate Change
Environment More nutrients, more water, and more carbon The operative word of the phrase climate change is "change."…
View ArticleThe World’s Most Stable Currency Is Backed by Carbon
Nexus Media News Meet the man behind the eco-friendly digital dollar. Computer geeks, operating independently of any government, create digital currencies that are exchanged around the world....
View ArticleFighting A Case Of Really Bad Gas
Nexus Media News Among global warming’s cast of characters, these two stand out. HFC-134a is short for hydrofluorocarbon. Like CO2, he belongs to the band of baddies. Mercifully, HFC-134a does not...
View ArticleAfter a brief pause, carbon emissions are back on the rise
Environment Time to turn words into action. The road to a very hot place is paved with good intentions. No, not hell, just the future.
View ArticleEven carbon-hungry plants can't save us from climate change
Environment If these soils could talk, they'd spell doom. Many models relied on the carbon-storing capacity of plants to mitigate some of the effects of climate change. A new study suggests that's...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal could help farmers help the planet
Nexus Media News The new potential plan could incentivize farming practices that help remove carbon pollution from the atmosphere. The Green New Deal is about more than shifting to cleaner, more...
View ArticleScientists want to limit climate change by releasing more CO2
Environment Converting methane to carbon dioxide could help. In a surprising and counterintuitive proposal published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability, Stanford University scientists argue...
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