Science

How a nuclear disaster turned Fukushima into a renewables leader

Following the 2011 triple disaster — and the subsequent cratering of support for nuclear energy — Fukushima Prefecture has pos...

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Rural Australia is pockmarked with small dams. Researchers say they could also be ‘batteries’

At the Goudemand apartment building in Arras, France, a stagnant pool of green water about 30 centimetres deep sits on top of a ...

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Can urban farming play a key role in food security?

Urban farming can conjure up images of small plots of land in the midst of concrete jungles — oases where city-dwellers can come...

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Is biodegradable better? Making sense of ‘compostable’ plastics

Bacardi rum bottles, Skittles sweet wrappers, designer water bottles—a bevy of companies are developing biodegradable plastic pa...

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A new alliance for ‘high quality’ carbon removal highlights tensions within the industry

Eight years ago, the field of carbon removal amounted to a handful of academic lab projects and a few fledgling companies working ...

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Is air pollution causing us to lose our sense of smell?

Our sense of smell is one of our richest and wide-ranging windows into the world around us, playing a vital role in what we taste,...

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Tropical seagrass meadows are sand factories that can help defend coral reef islands from sea-level rise

In a new study, we discovered another reason to preserve the world’s remaining seagrass meadows: they can build and maintain co...

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A skinny robot documents the forces eroding a massive Antarctic glacier

Scientists got their first up-close look at what's eating away part of Antarctica's Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Gla...

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Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

While the London-based internationally renowned botanical research institute is best known for its vast collection of tropical pla...

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From Lab to Market: Bio-Based Products Are Gaining Momentum

Propelled by government investment and shareholder demand, manufacturers are pushing to get bio-based products into the marketplac...

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How Tensions With Russia Are Jeopardizing Key Arctic Research

With the Ukraine war, international collaborations with Russia on Arctic research and governance have been strained or broken off....

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How ancient seeds from the Fertile Crescent could help save us from climate change

Inside a large freezer room at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, tens of thousands of seeds a...

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