Converting waste toilet paper into electricity
Chemists have performed a techno-economic analysis of converting waste toilet paper into electricity. They propose a two-step process and calculate a cost per kWh...
Black Sea water temperatures may buck global trend
Scientists have successfully simulated the Black Sea’s long term currents, salt water content and temperature for the first time.
Scientists question study about plastic-eating caterpillars
Do the larvae of the wax moth really solve the world's plastic problem? Sensational report of biochemical degradation of polyethylene by caterpillars not confirmed.
Arctic sea ice once again shows considerable melting
This September, the extent of Arctic sea ice shrank to roughly 4.7 million square kilometres, scientists have determined.
300,000 families living in US-Mexico border towns face exposure to toxic stress
Roughly 300,000 Texans living in impoverished border communities known as 'colonias' are facing substandard housing, lack of resources and exposure to toxic stress. New...
New Orleans greenery post-Katrina reflects social demographics more than hurricane impact
Popular portrayals of "nature reclaiming civilization" in flood-damaged New Orleans, Louisianna, neighborhoods romanticize an urban ecology shaped by policy-driven socioecological disparities in redevelopment investment,...
New climate risk classification created to account for potential ‘existential’ threats
A new study evaluating models of future climate scenarios has led to the creation of the new risk categories 'catastrophic' and 'unknown' to characterize...
Water conservation can have unintended consequences
Conventional wisdom dictates water conservation can only benefit communities affected by drought. But researchers have deduced that indoor residential conservation can have unintended consequences...
Plant geneticists develop a new application of CRISPR to break yield barriers in crops
Scientists have finally harnessed the untapped power of genome editing to improve agricultural crops. In the tomato plant they have mobilized CRISPR to rapidly...
Discovery could reduce nuclear waste with improved method to chemically engineer molecules
A new chemical principle has the potential to revolutionize the creation of specially engineered molecules whose uses include the reduction of nuclear waste and...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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Rare blindcat found in US, could prove water-filled caves connect Texas and Mexico
The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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