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09/26/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

8 easy ways to clean up dirty indoor air

Indoor air pollutants can lead to disease. Several conditions are linked to the exposure to these contaminants, including acute and chronic pulmonary disorder, increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms, and enhanced sensitivity of the airways to allergens. Most people remain unaware of the dangers; happy in their states of bliss and misconception that somehow being inside […]

09/19/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Abandoned oil rigs in the sea can become valuable artificial reefs

A group of international researchers are encouraging environmental authorities to rethink their policies on removing oil rigs, wind turbines, and other sea installations after they have worn out. According to their study, published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, these dilapidated artificial structures become alternative reefs for flatfish, cod, and various types of bottom […]

09/14/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Cleanliness can prevent bugs as well as germs: Bed bugs love dirty laundry, study finds

Low-cost traveling has opened the doors to a lot of things, like bedbugs. So says Dr. William Hentley from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences and his team of researchers. His study, published in Scientific Reports, concluded that global bedbug dispersal has been facilitated by dirty laundry being left exposed in […]

09/12/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Can floating islands help threatened insects such as bees and butterflies?

Iowa State University (ISU)’s landmark lake floating islands research project is being re-established this year since its first run in 2015. The Lake LaVerne Floating Islands project was intended to measure the nutrient uptake from the water of the LaVerne lake and then to design, construct, and monitor the amount of carbon the plants could […]

09/07/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Scientists explore using sugarcane as alternative bio-jet fuel

Planes may soon be running on sugarcane oil, if plans made by researchers from the University of Illinois come to fruition. Their proposal, extensively detailed in a paper published in Bioenergy, suggests that replacing fossil fuel with genetically-engineered sugarcane oil is an economically viable green alternative for the aviation industry. It has been acknowledged that […]

08/24/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Make your own natural cleaning products that actually work

Don’t buy in to all that commercialism — cleaning products do not need to be filled with all those chemicals to work. Sure, a lot of these big-brand products smell really nice and come in attractive bottles, but what are we really after? Decorative pieces or products that actually work? A lot of the cleaning […]

08/22/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Say hello to my little friend: Trees have developed a symbiotic relationship with fungi to survive drought stress

New analysis of the symbiotic relationship between trees and fungi decodes how the pair withstands drought. These conclusions give scientists a better understanding of how the mutual association can be used to develop more plant feedstocks for bioenergy in case of drought. By investigating how specific adaptations of common fungi are created in relation to […]

08/14/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Star Wars: Oil giants look to space in race for natural resources

As oil prices continue to slump in what financial analysts expect to be a steady decline, energy giants are now looking to the stars — quite literally. The race is not so fantastical as it sounds; environmentalists and economic professionals are aware (perhaps too keenly) that the Earth’s natural resources are finite. The growing population […]

08/06/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Free public transpo may solve air pollution problems in Germany

The German government has announced that they are considering making public transport free in five of their most polluted cities in a bid to control environmental pollution. The official statement was given in response to increasing pressure from the European Union (EU) to tackle the country’s deadly air pollution. The proposal was written by German […]

08/01/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Mother Nature’s solution in the Arctic: Climatologists discover microorganisms are consuming the methane released by melting icebergs

Global warming alarmists love to talk about arctic methane. This is the incalculable amount of greenhouse gas currently being stored in icebergs in the Arctic. As the world warms, there is concern that some of these gases will be released into the atmosphere and cause substantial damage. Scientists have seen that around 56 million years […]

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