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Environmental Science: is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and information sciences to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science emerged from the fields of natural history and medicine during the Enlightenment.
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JUL 01, 2019Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 01, 2019Cancer
Organic foods and their health benefits are a source of constant study and some debate. As the evidence of the health ri ...Written By: Julia TraversJUL 01, 2019Microbiology
The CDC is warning the public about a parasitic infection that's on the rise, and is the main cause of illness due to wa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 30, 2019Plants & Animals
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) prevents most of the world from conducting any sort of whaling activities, wh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 28, 2019Genetics & Genomics
The inch-long sea slug Elysia rufescens eats algae for sustenance, but it gets an added benefit in the form of toxins wi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 27, 2019Earth & The Environment
And you thought we had fixed the ozone problem. Don’t speak too soon…new research published in Nature Susta ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 26, 2019Plants & Animals
Female Florida softshell turtles spend most of their lives in the water, but when it comes time to lay eggs, they’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2019Plants & Animals
Many of America’s major cities, such as Boston and New York City, are chock-full of wild pigeons. Some people enjo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2019Earth & The Environment
A device slated to clean up 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within five years was recently redeployed on its seco ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUN 24, 2019Earth & The Environment
Have you heard of a red tide? A red tide is a type of “harmful algal bloom,” an occurrence that reported in ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUN 23, 2019Plants & Animals
When you’re just an itsy-bitsy spider, you tend to be particularly vulnerable to predation by the plethora of larg ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 22, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Some things are just instinct. For example, a mother’s urge to look after her young is generally considered an ins ...Written By: Annie LennonJUN 22, 2019Health & Medicine
It is well established that the microbiome is essential for metabolism and digestion. The gut bacteria that make up the ...Written By: Abbie ArceJUN 20, 2019Chemistry & Physics
The humankind has been taking advantage of the metabolic mechanism of microbes to produce useful materials, anything fro ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUN 19, 2019Plants & Animals
Those working in the field of Biology will likely happen upon a plethora of strange things throughout their career, and ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2019Plants & Animals
The wilderness has no shortage of food-stealing bandits, and that’s why the acorn woodpecker is so vigilant when i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 18, 2019Space & Astronomy
Rockets are flying cargo into space more often these days than ever before, made possible in part by cost-effective reus ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 17, 2019Plants & Animals
Ecosystems are particularly delicate, and any changes to the careful balances that mother nature had in mind for a speci ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 17, 2019Earth & The Environment
Since 2003, the small town of Kamikatsu in western Japan has been on a mission to become “zero-waste.” In 20 ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUN 16, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research published in Environmental Research Letters from the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO) concludes ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 14, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research is putting numbers to a phenomenon that the world has already come to know well in the last decades: the ex ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 13, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Large populations are necessary to maintain important rare changes in the genome.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 11, 2019Plants & Animals
Cordyceps is a genus of fungi that multiplies by spreading its spores just like other types of fungi do, but the interes ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 11, 2019Earth & The Environment
The US is lagging. A new study published in the open access journal Environmental Health reports that the US has failed ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 01, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 01, 2019
Cancer
Organic foods and their health benefits are a source of constant study and some debate. As the evidence of the health ri
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
JUL 01, 2019
Microbiology
The CDC is warning the public about a parasitic infection that's on the rise, and is the main cause of illness due to wa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 30, 2019
Plants & Animals
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) prevents most of the world from conducting any sort of whaling activities, wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 28, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
The inch-long sea slug Elysia rufescens eats algae for sustenance, but it gets an added benefit in the form of toxins wi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 27, 2019
Earth & The Environment
And you thought we had fixed the ozone problem. Don’t speak too soon…new research published in Nature Susta
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 26, 2019
Plants & Animals
Female Florida softshell turtles spend most of their lives in the water, but when it comes time to lay eggs, they’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2019
Plants & Animals
Many of America’s major cities, such as Boston and New York City, are chock-full of wild pigeons. Some people enjo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A device slated to clean up 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within five years was recently redeployed on its seco
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 24, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Have you heard of a red tide? A red tide is a type of “harmful algal bloom,” an occurrence that reported in
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 23, 2019
Plants & Animals
When you’re just an itsy-bitsy spider, you tend to be particularly vulnerable to predation by the plethora of larg
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 22, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Some things are just instinct. For example, a mother’s urge to look after her young is generally considered an ins
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 22, 2019
Health & Medicine
It is well established that the microbiome is essential for metabolism and digestion. The gut bacteria that make up the
...
Written By:
Abbie Arce
JUN 20, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
The humankind has been taking advantage of the metabolic mechanism of microbes to produce useful materials, anything fro
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 19, 2019
Plants & Animals
Those working in the field of Biology will likely happen upon a plethora of strange things throughout their career, and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 19, 2019
Plants & Animals
The wilderness has no shortage of food-stealing bandits, and that’s why the acorn woodpecker is so vigilant when i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 18, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Rockets are flying cargo into space more often these days than ever before, made possible in part by cost-effective reus
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 17, 2019
Plants & Animals
Ecosystems are particularly delicate, and any changes to the careful balances that mother nature had in mind for a speci
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 17, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Since 2003, the small town of Kamikatsu in western Japan has been on a mission to become “zero-waste.” In 20
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 16, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research published in Environmental Research Letters from the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO) concludes
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 14, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research is putting numbers to a phenomenon that the world has already come to know well in the last decades: the ex
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 13, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Large populations are necessary to maintain important rare changes in the genome.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 11, 2019
Plants & Animals
Cordyceps is a genus of fungi that multiplies by spreading its spores just like other types of fungi do, but the interes
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 11, 2019
Earth & The Environment
The US is lagging. A new study published in the open access journal Environmental Health reports that the US has failed
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan