Rachel Carson’s rare ability to combine scientific fact with poetic language reached the hearts and minds of a lay audience and gave birth to the movement of environmental consciousness.
While the Himalayas are truly a spectacle to behold, the greatest challenges in Nepal are not the summits that are there to climb but the adversity that the Nepali people face everyday.
Scientists at three North American universities have discovered one of nature’s “backup methods” for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients. Research published today in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,” shows that the process may be more resilient than previously known.
A new way of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream of air could provide a valuable tool in the battle against climate change say the engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, who developed the new system.
