Climate Change Effects Could Mean the End of Coffee Beans
The world never looks quite as grim with a cup of coffee in hand. But coffee, like all agricultural products, could be thrown into...
McCain resumes his quest for climate change action
The senator bucks his party on climate change, after years of silence.
On Sunday, Sen. John McCain said it’s time to sit down again and...
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...
Old fish few and far between under fishing pressure
A new study has found that, for dozens of fish populations around the globe, old fish are greatly depleted -- mainly because of fishing...
Light at the end of the tunnel: Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered...
A twenty-year effort to protect and manage tiny remnants of a dilapidated forest in Benin, along with its agricultural and fallow vegetation surroundings, resulted...
Threatened Alabama snail renamed after a case of mistaken identity
Confusion surrounding the identity of the Painted Rocksnail, a species listed as federally threatened, has been cleared up after over 100 years of mistaken...
Hydrogen power moves a step closer
Physicists are developing methods of creating renewable fuel from water using quantum technology. Renewable hydrogen can already be produced by photoelectrolysis where solar power...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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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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