by Admin | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Last year, the state of Texas funded a program to build 22 seismic monitoring stations around the state, in addition to the 17 they already had there. The goal was to record more consistent and objective data about seismic activity. Why Texas? Well there’s been a...
by Admin | May 16, 2016 | Articles, Sustainability
According to Dr. Juan Lopez-Bautista, who has worked on several National Science Foundation panels, the trick to getting NSF funding is whether or not you can answer yes to the question “is it research that will change our textbooks?” Lopez-Bautista has done just that...
by Admin | May 6, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Plants use photosynthesis to create energy, by converting water and carbon dioxide through the use of sunlight. We’ve known this for a very long time, but we’re finally starting to explore how we might use a similar system to generate power for human use. The benefits...
by Admin | Apr 21, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Trees have a much more social existence than we thought, according to new research by scientists from the University of Basel in Switzerland. It turns out that trees trade stored carbon between themselves, through the use of symbiotic fungi in the soil. Not only do...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Climate change could affect the world’s financial assets in a loss of $2.5 trillion, suggests the world’s first estimate from economic modeling. The consequences of climate change and global warming are astronomical, and not just for the physical world, but for every...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2016 | Articles, Information
Managing natural resources can be difficult, but it’s essential to making sure that ecosystems aren’t too disrupted. This is doubly so when there are indigenous people living in the region in question, such as the Makushi or Wai Wai people of southern Guyana in South...
