UVic geography professor Johan Feddema’s life-long academic interest in the interactions between human activity and the earth’s surface and climate didn’t start in a lab but in a graveyard.
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Solving a 75-Year-Old Mystery Might Provide a New Source of Farm Fertilizer
The solution to a 75-year-old materials mystery might one day allow farmers in developing nations to produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight and nitrogen from the air.
Combined Local and Global Actions Could Lessen Impacts of Climate Change
Writing in Scientific Reports, researchers say effective management of the marine environment could mitigate the impact of future global changes.
A Life Cycle Solution to Energy Impacts
Pitt Engineering researchers study potential benefits in co-treating Pennsylvania's acid mine drainage and shale gas wastewater.
Six Feet Under: Deep Soil Can Hold Much of the Earth’s Carbon
Forests (national, state, private) provide an important ecosystem service in the form of carbon sequestration – the uptake and storage of carbon in forests and wood products.
Newly Discovered Wasp Turns Social Spiders into Zombies
It sounds like the plot of the world’s tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a “social” spider into a zombie-like drone that abandons its colony to do the wasp’s bidding.
