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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, leading to more than a half-billion dollars in extra costs to U.S. farmers every year, finds new research from CU Boulder published last month in Earth’s Future.
When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the event.
Engineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the “kombucha mother” used to ferment tea.
To resolve the energy crisis and environmental issues, research to move away from fossil fuels and convert to eco-friendly and sustainable hydrogen energy is well underway around the world.
Wild bees are more affected by climate change than by disturbances to their habitats, according to a team of researchers led by Penn State.
Anthropogenic, or human-made, heat flux in the near-surface atmosphere has changed urban thermal environments.
