Plastics News True sustainability requires looking at everything and considering the entire life cycle, said Erica Ocampo, sustainability and advocacy manager at Dow Chemical Co. An optimal package maximizes both the mission of the package and the economic and ...
UC Berkeley ... acidification, and local pressures, such as overfishing or forest conversion. Curb the manufacture and release of toxic substances into the environment with regulations on existing as well as new chemicals , and bolster research to develop safer ... and more »
Santa Cruz Sentinel ... formed, thanks to Jerry Weber and Hilde Schwartz. More properly called calcium carbonate 'pipes,' they formed in the upper part of the Santa Cruz mudstone due to chemical reactions that occurred when methane venting from the ancient (late Miocene ...
TheNewsTribune.com There's the luminous canework of Claire Belfrage, whose vessel “Passage #40” views a vaguely dotted forest floor through the naked skeleton of a leaf (made at MoG during her last residency here). There's Tom Moore's funny blown-glass sculptures – a ...
Huffington Post Its emotional pull has been followed up by many dramatic scenes of hurricanes, floods, droughts and forest fires -- these make us think hard about climate change. The message is that there is an increasing cost from severe weather that affects all of ...
Lab Manager Laboratory News Artificial photosynthesis, in which solar energy is directly converted into chemical fuels, is regarded as one of the most promising of sol...
The Economist That thins the forest understorey and increases visibility which, Dr Magle reckons, helps predators spot nests that denser vegetation would hide. So the predators come looking. Besides overshadowing its neighbours, buckthorn also engages in chemical ... and more »
USA TODAY The emphasis is on healing "hurts, hang-ups and habits," said John Baker, a pastor at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest , Calif., who founded the program in 1990. Only 1 of 3 participants is dealing with chemical dependency. "Everyone ...
Michigan Tech News ... scientist at the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) in Ann Arbor, heads another Michigan Tech team that received a $50,000 Water Center grant to develop a geospatial database to inform response plans for dealing with oil or chemical spills in ... and more »
LiveScience.com "Due to the darkness of the rain forest and the translucent body parts of the tiny ants they were nearly invisible," the researchers said. "Under bright light and a magnifier we detected the nice stripe across the eyes and therefore always ... Pirate ... and more »
