by Admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Articles, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Agriculture and ecology form a tenuous balancing act. We need agriculture to grow food, but we also need to maintain ecosystems and not let farming ruin them. One significant problem is soil runoff near the beginning of the growing season. In the United States, for...
by Admin | Jul 12, 2016 | Articles, Conservation, Environmental hazards
There are a lot of scientists working on ways to reduce humanity’s carbon emissions, and there are several systems in place to do exactly that. Carbon capture refers to removing CO2 from industrial waste, and there re a number of systems already set up to do that....
by Admin | Jul 7, 2016 | Conservation, Sustainability
Private equity firm KKR has announced an investment in Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), a leader in the ecological solutions market. KKR hopes to stimulate RES’s growth and help it develop as a company that contributes to society. RES’s environmental...
by Admin | Jun 23, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
As humans have known for millennia, and as many authors have reminded us, city life is hard–but it has some advantages. The same turns out to be true for bees, who suffer from a higher rate of parasites in urban environments, but pollinate more plants than they...
by Admin | Jun 17, 2016 | Conservation, Information
Conservation is a key philosophy and practice focused on preserving the planet for future generations of all species. Human passion fueling the conservation movement was inspired by images of unspoiled forests and wide-open prairies. But was it all a dream? Recent...
by Admin | Jun 15, 2016 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Microbial creatures living in the world’s oceans are an important part of those ecosystems. Studying the ocean’s microbial life will help us understand the ocean’s ecosystem. Research of this type could lead to interesting discoveries in a number of fields. However,...
