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01/11/2020

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200106005781/en/

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11/21/2019

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2019/11/new-research-into-400-years-of-change-in-pennsylvanias-forests.html

Researchers at Penn State and other universities investigate historic influences on modern forests.

08/19/2019

https://www.fastcompany.com/90356642/forget-the-farmers-market-atlanta-built-a-7-acre-edible-forest

It’s 7.1 acres of free food to local residents–but it will cost them some sweat.

07/28/2019

I’ve always said playing in the dirt is good for the soul ... https://neurosciencenews.com/dirt-fat-anxiety-14108/

10(Z)-hexadecenoic acid, a fatty acid found in the soil based bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae, interacts with immune cells to inhibit pathways that drive inflammation and increases resilience to stress. Researchers say the findings could bring us one step closer to developing a microbe-based "stress....

04/07/2019

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/deadly-germs-lost-cures-a-mysterious-infection-spanning-the-globe-in-a-climate-of-secrecy/ar-BBVFPi7

Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. 

03/26/2019

https://returntonow.net/2018/04/29/trees-have-a-heartbeat-scientists-discover/

‍‌Researchers discover trees have a “heartbeat,” it’s just so slow we’ve never noticed before Until now, scientists thought water moved through trees by osmosis, in a somewhat continuous manner. Now they’ve discovered the trunks and branches of trees are actually contracting and expand...

03/23/2019

https://www.newsweek.com/female-dragon-flies-fake-death-avoid-s*x-evolution-591494

Scientists observed female dragonflies stopping mid-air, falling to the ground and lying motionless until the male had gone.

01/29/2019

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-study-on-driverless-car-ethics-offers-a-troubling-look-into-our-values

To figure out how autonomous vehicles should respond during potentially fatal collisions, a group of scientists set out to learn what decisions human drivers would make.

01/28/2019

https://yorkblog.com/universal/frederick-law-olmsted-jr-wanted-to-beautify-codorus-creek-banks-too/

You might have recently read in the York Daily Record concerning proposed improvements and beautification of the Codorus Creek through part of the city. Wouldn’t it be great if this time something comes of it? Seemingly innumerable similar proposals have been put forth over the years, plans drawn ...

01/23/2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/ocean-cleanup-project-could-destroy-neuston/580693/

Home to vibrantly colored, tiny creatures, the ecosystems floating on the ocean’s surface remain all but unknown.

01/10/2019

https://qz.com/quartzy/1480959/if-you-love-nature-here-are-20-words-to-say-aloud/?fbclid=IwAR0zjAP-K6JPa2UuAt-3ITt-Yfge4GoAW7TtkhV50qE9Z49uL1gELTsMejE

"The Lost Words" uses "spells" to conjure the birds, animals, and plants at risk of being forgotten.

01/08/2019

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/12/28/507319

Can plants hear? That is, can they sense airborne sounds and respond to them? Here we show that Oenothera drummondii flowers, exposed to the playback sound of a flying bee or to synthetic sound-signals at similar frequencies, produced sweeter nectar within 3 minutes, potentially increasing the chanc...

12/22/2018

http://edgarzuniga.com/exposicion/exposicion-universidad-tecnica-nacional-utn/

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12/17/2018

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life-20181211/

Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.

12/12/2018

High School Students Determined To Continue Efforts To Have PA Recognize Eastern Hellbenders: https://goo.gl/KCkUbA Visit www.PaEnvironmentDigest.com for more PA Environmental & Energy News.

12/10/2018

https://www.newsandtribune.com/news/in-indiana-this-slimy-salamander-is-winning-hearts-and-conservation/article_5dc192e0-fa79-11e8-ab10-f7cf812918e0.html

SOUTHERN INDIANA — Tucked away in an undisclosed nook of the Blue River near Corydon lives an ancient amphibian in need of modern-day humans.

12/01/2018

“Results showed that ... the RWH system (the major ions, fluoride, zinc, arsenic, lead, iron, copper, chromium, aluminum, nitrate, and total coliforms) comply with national standards and international guidelines for drinking water. Thus, RWH constitutes a viable option for providing good quality water in a megacity ...”

Mexico City is one of the most water-stressed cities in the world; poor quality water occurs in several parts of the City. The use of rainwater harvesting (RWH) as a source of drinking water is gaining acceptance in several contexts, but the quality of the water obtained through these systems has no...