Earth will not be able to support and sustain life forever. As our Sun ages, it is becoming more luminous, meaning that in the future Earth will receive more solar energy. Interestingly, both scenarios produced broadly similar results : oxygen…
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Environmental and Earth
Research Has Pushed Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Were Before Industrialization
by Steffen Kohl April 18, 2020While the trees to absorb CO2, they were unable to hold onto the CO2 through sequestration. Research has shown that restoring forests by an area the size of the United States could cut carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by a…
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Environmental and Earth
Heightened Air Pollution Has Real And Immediate Impacts On Health
by Steffen Kohl December 29, 2018Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant “pothos ivy” to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it. The pothos ivy was engineered to express a protein called 2E1 which enables the breakdown of…