Mountains of used plastic bottles get thrown away every day, but microbes could potentially tackle this problem.
Plastic-Eating Bacteria Turn Waste Into Useful Starting Materials for Other Products
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To Restore Ecosystems, Think About Thwarting Hungry Herbivores
Re-establishing plantings of trees, grasses and other vegetation is essential for restoring degraded ecosystems, but a new survey of almost 2,600 restoration projects from nearly every type of ecosystem on Earth finds that most projects fail to recognize and control one of the new plants’ chief threats: hungry critters that eat plants.
How Sunflowers See the Sun
Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky.
UMass Hydrogeologists Develop Innovative Way to Predict Saltwater Intrusion Into Groundwater Using Plymouth, Mass. As Test Case
As the world warms and ice sheets melt, the ocean continually rises.
The Remains of an Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth
In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Human Emissions Increased Mercury in the Atmosphere Sevenfold
Research establishes a natural baseline for mercury in the atmosphere by estimating emissions from volcanic eruptions.
