Plants That Detect Land Mines (core77.com)
When the roots of these GMO flowers hit nitrogen dioxide (which leaches into the soil from buried land mines), the plant changes color.
Originally posted by Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing
Plants That Detect Land Mines (core77.com)
When the roots of these GMO flowers hit nitrogen dioxide (which leaches into the soil from buried land mines), the plant changes color.
Originally posted by Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing
A study published in Nature this week finds that human activity has at least doubled the risk of a regional heat wave like the European summer of 2003, which was one of the hottest on record for the continent. NPR’s Richard Harris reports.
The White House proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish, outraging environmentalists.
A friendly reminder from WSSC.
The contractor dismantling the former Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg has the go-ahead from state regulators to change a key part of the project.
By altering genes, scientists create quick-growing fruit and pulp trees; but critics see ‘Frankenforests.’
The ice-cloaked Arctic Ocean was once apparently a warm, biologically brewing basin, scientists say.
Radio is being used as a weapon.
An estimated 100 million locusts force tourists and locals to abandon beaches in the Canary Islands.
Originally from BBC News
The president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said environmental laws are not being enforced.
Protecting Maryland’s Land (washingtonpost.com)
“OUR BEAUTIFUL parks and public forests never were and never will be for sale,” declared Maryland’s Republican governor, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., in a damage-control statement last week. Really? At the governor’s direction, Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources compiled a list of what it calls surplus land — that is, parcels available for Mr. Ehrlich’s stated goal of selling off “questionable state property.” The list includes 3,000 acres in and around state parks from one end of Maryland to the other. And let’s not forget his administration’s most recent land gambit — the proposed sweetheart sale of 836 acres of environmentally sensitive, state-owned forest land in St. Mary’s County to a politically connected Baltimore developer who stood to make as much as $7 million in tax breaks on the deal.
Delaware River Oil Spill Leaves Wildlife Imperiled (nytimes.com)
Birds coated in oil were carried to a wildlife refuge by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forest soils is apparent from a new study.
The noisy cicadas from last summer left us a beneficial present – mulch.
Originally from BBC News
Scientists tap everything from gas-sniffing devices to GPS systems to better forecast when a mountain will stir.
Tropical honeybees survived the devastating nuclear winter thought to have helped kill off the dinosaurs.
Originally from BBC News