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What are humans to do with the billions of tons of carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere? Since 1996, an experiment in the North Sea has been injecting millions… 
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As the global climate changes, wild animals are shifting where they live—even beyond the protected areas that are crucial to their survival.
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Thinking about your own death isn’t usually the most pleasant experience, but it can be a beneficial one.
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A team of international researchers have analyzed data from the UN and the WHO to conclude that humanity is 17 million tons overweight. Only North America, the authors say, comprises a third of the obese people in the world.
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Wealthy cities seem to have it all. Expansive, well-manicured parks. Fine dining. Renowned orchestras and theaters. More trees. Wait, trees?
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Since 1980, the volume of this glacier that spills into the Prince William Sound has shrunk by half. Climate change may have nudged the process along, but mechanical forces have played the largest role in the ice loss.
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So, in sum, moral ecology is the abstract notion that it takes many behavioural strategies to promote high stable levels of cooperation, which helps explain evolved psychological diversity, which helps explain moral diversity.
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Few generations have been as dependent on electricity as Gen Y, however new research has found the energy conservation message might not be getting through.
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This visualization reveals the freshwater stores that NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite detects from space and shows how that data can be used to evaluate groundwater gains and losses, critical information in the effort to conserve the water that people depend upon
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Using nature's beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China's valued panda preserves, but it isn't an automatic ticket out of poverty for the humans who live there, a unique long-term study shows.
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Decades of research into how much plastic litters the ocean, conducted by skimming only the surface, may in some cases vastly underestimate the true amount of plastic debris, according to an oceanographer.
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"Transient electronics" could deliver drugs, monitor buildings and more. Could they be an eco-friendly solution for obsolescent tech?
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If only there were a field that examines the spiritual, therapeutic and psychological aspects of human-nature relationships, I'd abandon my graduate studies in Theoretical Phys Ed and embrace this new discipline instead.Luckily, there is.
Shannon Steuart's curator insight,
August 9, 2013 1:26 AM
Wow, someone who also understands the intricacies and powerful beauty of nature and psychology.
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Short animated film about the takeover of nature by financial markets and the real alternatives coming up from the civil society. Via pdjmoo
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As landfills overflow with discarded plastics, scientists have been working to produce a biodegradable alternative that will reduce pollution.
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Researchers have found that leafier places in Baltimore tend to have lower crime rates than those with few or no trees.
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TED Fellow 2010 Angelo Vermeulen explains the wonders and complexities of his extraordinary project Biomodd - a computer system with a living ecosystem insid...
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Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. GAIA: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=gaia
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Species loss lessens the total amount of biomass on a given parcel, suggesting that the degree of diversity directly impacts the amount of life the planet can support...
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Robots that decompose once they have reached the end of their mission could soon be deployed in the environment, thanks to a Research Project Grant of over £200,000 from the Leverhulme Trust. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Drawing inspiration from schools of fish, termite mounds, and the photosynthesis of leaves, new technologies seek to produce cleaner, more efficient energy through biomimicry. Articles about BIOMIMICRY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=biomimicry
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Siemens recently put two virtual power plants into operation. Virtual power plants are networks of several small power stations that are run like a single system.
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