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Scientists Show How to Grow More Nutritious Rice That Uses Less Fertilizer

The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs.

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Air Pollution is Harming Children’s Eyesight

Air pollution may be harming children’s eyesight with cleaner air helping to protect and even improve their vision - especially in younger children, a new study reveals.

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Well-Publicized Polar Geoengineering Ideas Will Not Help and Could Harm, Warn Experts

Five well-publicized polar geoengineering ideas are highly unlikely to help the polar regions and could harm ecosystems, communities, international relations, and our chances of reaching net zero by 2050.

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Breaking Barriers in the Ice

For years, managing personal hygiene, particularly menstruation and toileting, in the extreme Antarctic environment was often a solitary and unspoken challenge, especially for women and non-binary individuals.

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Future Generations: NSF-Funded Project Explores How Nanoplastics are Transmitted to Offspring

You can’t see nanoplastics with the naked eye, but they’re everywhere — including your body.

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Koala Stress Linked to Disease Threat

Researchers have revealed a clear relationship between stress and increased disease risk in koalas in South East Queensland and on the New South Wales North Coast.

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First Evidence That Plastic Nanoparticles Can Accumulate in the Edible Parts of Vegetables

Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment plastic can fragment into smaller and smaller pieces.

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From Beer to Useful Fats and Medicines

The residues that remain when a brewery makes beer or whiskey are called spent grain or brewer’s spent grain (BSG).

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Gut Bacteria Linked to How Our Genes Switch On and Off

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to a new research by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Turning Apple Waste Into Profit and Protein

Every year, as the presses churn and the sweet smell of cider fills the autumn air, more than 4 million tons of apple byproducts are hauled off as animal feed, compost or landfill waste.

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