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News & Articles By Edsel Cook
08/02/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Fracking companies are making HUGE money by crippling the environment with plastic
Fracking companies are the real-life equivalent of super-villain Lootin’ Plunder from the old Captain Planet cartoons. An EcoWatch article described the fracking industry’s profitable business model, where they earn billions of dollars of profits by encouraging petrochemical companies to overproduce plastic products made from shale fuel. Fuels extracted through hydraulic fracking processes are sold to customers like petrochemical companies […]
08/02/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Adding silicate rocks to farmland could restore soil, protect against pests and disease, and capture CO2, improving global food security
The groundbreaking results of a new British-led study suggested a simple yet profoundly effective way to improve global food supplies and cut down on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution: Farm crops with crushed silicate rocks. An international research team headed by University of Sheffield researchers have found that the addition of crushed silicate rocks brought significant advantages […]
07/31/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Global chocolate makers promise to source only ethical cocoa by 2020, but data show that this is unlikely to happen
Big chocolate makers are putting a lot of effort into ensuring all their cocoa will come from ethical and sustainable sources by 2020. However, these “ethical cocoa” programs are not helping cocoa farmers as much as expected due to the drastic decrease of the premium for their products over the last few years, a report […]
07/29/2018
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By Edsel Cook
NIH-funded study looks at how sharks have evolved to use electric fields to locate prey
Sharks are able to sense the faint electrical field emitted by an object. Recent research suggests that their electrosensing organ is tuned in an “all-or-nothing” manner that figures out if the object is edible – and if they think it is prey, they will immediately take a bite out of it, an article from the […]
07/22/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Study: Children are being taught in classrooms where the air is so polluted, it breaches WHO guidelines
Indoor air pollution continues to be a threat to the health of children around the world. A new study warned that the air in some U.K. schools is more toxic than outdoor air, an article in British Telecommunications stated. Researchers from the University of Cambridge (Cambridge) and the University College London (UCL) conducted the study […]
07/15/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Sandia National Laboratories receives $10m from DOE to design a cheaper and more efficient solar energy system
The U.S. Department of Natural Energy (DOE) has bestowed a $10.5 million grant on a New Mexico-based research and development laboratory. In return, the researchers will come up with a cheaper and better version of an existing utility-scale solar power system, an article in News Wise states. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will be refining “concentrated […]
07/15/2018
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By Edsel Cook
U.K. scientists call on public to help track and map plastic pollution on local beaches
Britain’s coastlines are so polluted with plastics that researchers have turned to the public for assistance. An online interactive map of the U.K. will allow anyone to identify and map plastic garbage found on local beaches, reported The Guardian. Researchers from the British Science Association (BSA) cooperated with members of the charity The Plastic Tide […]
07/08/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Groundwater in Cape Cod military sites suspected of being contaminated with carcinogens
Yet another U.S. military installation joined the seemingly endless list of facilities with contaminated water supplies. In a report from The Cape Cod Times, the drinking water and groundwater around Joint Base Cape Cod showed dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) have been detected in the local water supplies. […]
07/06/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Plant cells that enable photosynthesis found to also play a role in plant self defense
Your biology teacher would tell you that chloroplasts are the parts of plant cells that turn sunlight into food via photosynthesis. However, chloroplasts also pull double duty by warning the plant’s nucleus about a pathogenic infection or an environmental stressor, reported a NewsWise article. This insight comes from a collaborative study between the University of Delaware (UD) and the University of […]
06/19/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Study: South Korea’s largest earthquake was likely triggered by geothermal fracking
Two separate studies have suggested that hydraulic fracking is the likeliest cause behind South Korea’s worst earthquake. An Eco Watch article shared the studies’ findings linking a fracking operation for a local geothermal power plant to the 2017 Pohang earthquake. In November 15 of that year, a massive earthquake struck the southern port of Pohang. It was the second biggest […]
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