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Some Coastal Salt Marshes Are Keeping Up With Sea Level Rise: ‘We Were Definitely Excited’

Salt marshes on the East Coast have accumulated soil more quickly over the past century—and some appear to be keeping pace with rising waters. The...

Good News in History, April 1

50 years ago today, the federal government of India, under the administration of Indira Gandhi, implemented Project Tiger, a comprehensive strategy to try and...

Scientists Find Methane is Actually Offsetting 30% of its Own Heating Effect on Planet

Although methane is harmful in its effect on our climate, a new study of the greenhouse gas shows that its effects are not as...

Switzerland Set to Roll Out Solar Panels Between Railway Tracks–A World First

Europe's love of train travel is about to transform the continent's solar energy production as the Swiss are set to begin installing solar panels...

Evidence of Cheese-Making to Circumvent Lactose Intolerance 6,000 Years Ago Found in Poland

Analysis of neolithic pottery shards shows that in Northern Europe, where poor soils and low sunlight made primitive agriculture extremely difficult, people were making...

Indian Man Grows Precious Saffron In a Shipping Container–Wants to Share His Hydroponic Technique With Others

Feeling like the 9-5 office life of a software developer was too empty, an Indian man flipped his own script and became an entrepreneur,...

Yale Honors Work of 9-Year-Old Girl Who is Stomping Out Extremely Invasive Bugs in New Jersey

When 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson heard about the Hoboken campaign to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, she took the message to heart, whipped up some homemade,...

Half a Million Jobs Created in January Pushes U.S. Unemployment Rate to Lowest in 54 Years – 3.4%

Figures released this week showed the U.S. unemployment rate reaching its lowest point in 54 years—the fewest jobless Americans as a percentage of population...

To Boost Pollination, Tiny ‘FAIRY Robots‘ Can be Propelled by the Wind Like Seeds

In the future, millions of artificial dandelion seeds carrying pollen could be dispersed freely by natural winds and then steered by light toward specific...

Researchers Harness Sunlight to Produce Both Power and Food—Using Light to Improve Each Harvest

Scientists working in techno-agriculture have found that by covering crops with canopies of translucent solar panels, they can separate the light which generates energy...

World’s First Vaccine for Declining Honeybees Approved By the US for Conditional Use

A biotech company announced this week that the USDA (Department of Agriculture) granted them a conditional license for their honeybee vaccine. The vaccine boosts the...

British Company Develops First Tractor in the World to be Completely Powered by Cow Dung

New Holland's brand new tractor runs on liquified methane, allowing farmers to decrease their emissions and save money on expensive diesel. But that isn't the...

Queensland Surfers Could Soon be Protected from Shark Attacks With Fleet of Early Warning Drones

New camera-equipped drones are giving Australian lifeguards an eye in the sky on the lookout for sharks. For decades, Queensland has used baited hook drumlines...

Bangladesh Farmers Digging Simple Wells Have Created an Irrigation Wonder–With Rice Overflowing

Over the last 40 years, small-holder farmers in Bangladesh have, using very simple methods, turned the dry Bengal Basin into one of the richest...

Sharp-Shooting Farm Robot Can Treat 500,000 Plants Per Hour With 95% Decrease in Chemical Sprays

With 50 spray nozzles and a sophisticated computer system, tractors out in California's central valley are towing artificially-intelligent robots behind them that look set...

Planting Trees in a City 30 Years Ago May Have Lowered the Risk of Deaths From Diseases

  Planting trees destined to live long healthy lives is believed to be a good way to save the planet, but what about ourselves? 30 years...

Australia’s Ocean Kelp Forest is Growing at Light Speed–Rivaling the Mighty Amazon for Absorbing CO2

  Great forests of ocean kelp were found in a recent study to be between 4 and 11-times more productive than the most productive crops...

Guam Kingfishers Could Soon Return to the Wild After a 30-Year Absence Thanks to Ambitious Scientists

A long shot rescue plan for the Critically-Endangered Guam kingfisher is set to take place on the wilds of an island nowhere near Guam. Having...

Getting Plants ‘Drunk’ Insulates them Against Drought, According to New Research

Main crop plants thrived when their soil was soaked in ethanol alcohols even after two weeks without water, report scientists. Climate change may be affecting...

California Begins Covering Canals with Solar Panels to Fight Drought

State utilities in California are preparing to launch a pilot project to cover California's irrigation canals in solar panels. The decision was influenced by a...