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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated faster, more efficient ways to turn discarded plant matter into chemicals worth billions. The team’s findings could help transform the economics of making fuels and other products from domestically grown renewable sources.
Los hongos pueden contener cantidades inusualmente altas de dos antioxidantes que algunos científicos sugieren podrían ayudar a combatir el envejecimiento y mejorar la salud, según un equipo de investigadores de Penn State.
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Philippines and saw the thirtieth tropical cyclone of the northwestern Pacific Ocean typhoon season form.
Washington State University researchers say landslides on logged forests will be more widespread as the Northwest climate changes.
Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems. It is produced predominantly when coal is burned to generate electricity.
Stuck where they are, plants have to adapt to their environments, responding to stresses like drought or pests by changing how they grow.
On a broader scale, crop breeders need to be able to develop new varieties that are adapted to a new location or changing growing conditions in the same area.
