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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The first astronomers had a limited toolkit: their eyes. They could only observe those stars, planets and celestial events bright enough to pick up unassisted. But today’s astronomers use increasingly sensitive and sophisticated instruments to view and track a bevy of cosmic wonders, including objects and events that were too dim or distant for their sky-gazing forebears.
You may not find them in the produce aisle yet, but it’s only a matter of time before new disease-resistant apple cultivars overtake favorites like Honeycrisp in popularity, according to a University of Illinois apple expert.
El bienestar humano se verá gravemente amenazado por las tendencias negativas en algunos aspectos ambientales tales como el cambio del clima, la deforestación, la pérdida de acceso al agua dulce, la extinción de especies y el crecimiento de la población humana, advierten los científicos en la edición de BioScience una publicación internacional. El artículo "’World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Second Notice" fue firmado por más de 15,000 científicos en 184 países.
Pesticides significantly reduce the number of pollen grains a bumblebee is able to collect, a new University of Stirling study has found.
While offering the standard disclaimer that past performance is no guarantee of the future, I nevertheless offer some predictions for, and reflections about, the future of sustainable and impact investing.
Fossil leaves from Africa have resolved a prehistoric climate puzzle — and also confirm the link between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global warming.
