On Food Waste, the US could learn a lot from Europe
Jan 13, 2017, 7:28 am By ENN
The U.S. tosses a staggering $161 billion worth of food every year. While numerous efforts are…Nanoscience expert receives 2016 Dickson Prize in Science
Jan 12, 2017, 4:17 pm By ENN
EVANSTON - Chad A. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of…Climate Model Suggests Collapse of Atlantic Circulation Is Possible
Jan 12, 2017, 1:39 pm By ENN
The idea of climate change causing a major ocean circulation pattern in the Atlantic Ocean to…Why It's Impossible to Predict When That Giant Antarctic Ice Sheet Will Split
Jan 12, 2017, 11:26 am By ENN
OVER THE PAST several months, scientists working in Antarctica have been watching—with a mixture…Canada's Vast Source of Climate Pollution May Go Bust
Jan 12, 2017, 10:42 am By ENN
The Canadian oil sands are one of the world’s largest sources of climate pollution and America’s…Study describes new method to remove nickel from contaminated seawater
Jan 12, 2017, 10:11 am By ENN
The same deposit that builds up in many tea kettles or water pipes in areas where calcium-rich water…Beijing Creates Anti-Smog Police to Fight Air Pollution
Jan 12, 2017, 9:26 am By ENN
Authorities in Beijing are taking new actions to resolve the city’s ongoing and harmful air…Affordable water in the US: A burgeoning crisis
Jan 12, 2017, 9:13 am By ENN
If water rates continue rising at projected amounts, the number of U.S. households unable to afford…Scientists identify protein central to immune response against tuberculosis bacteria
Jan 12, 2017, 9:08 am By ENN
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein that is central to the immune…PRESSURE FROM GRAZERS HASTENS ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE FROM DROUGHT
Jan 11, 2017, 4:39 pm By ENN
Extreme droughts, intensified by a warming climate, are increasingly causing ecosystem collapse in…CWRU researchers directly measure how perovskite solar films efficiently convert light to power
Jan 11, 2017, 2:43 pm By ENN
Measurement shows potential for building better solar cells by imaging fundamental properties of the…Campus greenhouse gas emissions down 7 percent since 2014
Jan 11, 2017, 2:15 pm By ENN
MIT’s total campus emissions have dropped by 7 percent since 2014, according to MIT’s second…Farthest Stars in Milky Way Might Be Ripped from Another Galaxy
Jan 11, 2017, 12:14 pm By ENN
The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well…Researchers find a potential target for anti-Alzheimer treatments
Jan 11, 2017, 9:07 am By ENN
Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg…Warmer West Coast ocean conditions linked to increased risk of toxic shellfish
Jan 10, 2017, 2:26 pm By ENN
Hazardous levels of domoic acid, a natural toxin that accumulates in shellfish, have been linked to…In a first, Bumble Bee is listed as endangered in continental U.S.
Jan 10, 2017, 11:59 am By ENN
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has placed the rusty patched bumble bee, once common in 28 states…Rapid Arctic warming has in the past shifted Southern Ocean winds
Jan 10, 2017, 11:28 am By ENN
The global climate is a complex machine in which some pieces are separate yet others are connected.…NASA Study Finds a Connection Between Wildfires and Drought
Jan 10, 2017, 11:03 am By ENN
For centuries drought has come and gone across northern sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, water…Retroviruses 'almost half a billion years old'
Jan 10, 2017, 8:55 am By ENN
Retroviruses – the family of viruses that includes HIV – are almost half a billion years old,…Louisiana Faces Faster Levels of Sea-Level Rise Than Any Other Land on Earth
Jan 10, 2017, 8:49 am By ENN
Louisiana—which faces faster levels of sea-level rise than any other land on Earth—could lose…
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