“A healthy community requires healthy soil.” This idea spurred a consortium of researchers, farmers, and community garden practitioners to dive into the challenges—and opportunities—of urban agriculture.
What Do Gardens Bring to Urban Ecosystems?
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A Quest to Save Lives by Cleaning Up Production of a Ubiquitous Building Material
When Stephen Luby, MD, first arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2004, he barely registered the hazy atmosphere.
Defects Help Nanomaterial Soak Up More Pollutant in Less Time
Cleaning pollutants from water with a defective filter sounds like a non-starter, but a recent study by chemical engineers at Rice University found that the right-sized defects helped a molecular sieve soak up more perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in less time.
NOAA And Partners Capture Footage of What Might Be New Species of Killer Whale
It’s not every day that scientists get an up close and personal look at what might be a new species.
Using Machine Learning to Improve Subseasonal Climate Forecasting
Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER (Atmospheric and Environmental Research) and visiting scientist in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Ernest Fraenkel, professor of biological engineering at MIT, have won first place in three out of four temperature forecasting categories in the Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo competition, hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
TV Meteorologists Could Play Key Role in Climate Change Education
Canadian meteorologists who deliver the evening news are interested in educating Canadians about the increasing impacts of climate change.
