Natural Resources

Tested the sponge can selectively absorb oil. This ” dead zone ” in the deep, frigid water buoy anchored 15 miles offshore. To make sure the sponge with different types of crude oil back into the water. Last year, scientists…

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…

Researchers 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…

Taal Levi, an Oregon State University ecologist and lead author on the study, said some tropical forests have as many as 1,000 different tree species living in the same general area. Our tropical forests are some of the richest and…

Extinct birds were nocturnal and blind. Early plants were small, unicellular or filamentous, with simple branching. “We wanted to know whether there were similar drivers for organisms during the Ediacaran period” , said Dr Emily Mitchell of Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences, the paper’s…