A sampling of everyday items made of plastic getty Modern societies use a tremendous amount of plastic and most of it is made from feedstocks derived from the refinement of either natural gas or petro...
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How Bees And Bats Help Bordeaux Create High Quality Sustainable Wines
Bees and Bats Help Produce Sustainable Wines in the Vineyards of Bordeaux CIVB Did you know that bats eat between 500 and 1500 insects per night, and that bees are responsible for 80% of the pollinati...
Agriculture’s Critical And Complex N-Game
A corn field in Iowa which requires a substantial amount of nitrogen fertilizer in order to be … [+] optimally productive (Photo by H. Abernathy/ClassicStock/Getty Images) getty Critics of moder...
A Window On The Progress, Promise And Realities Of Indoor Agriculture
AeroFarms’ vertical grow towers in Newark, New Jersey. AFP via Getty Images Last week New York City was host to the Indoor AgTech Innovation Summit, an event which drew 600 attendees, featured 9...
Is There A Road To More Climate-Friendly Trucking?
Transportation is the single largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions Graph from EPA In order to seriously address climate change there will need to be major changes in the US transportation sect...
Is There A More Climate-Friendly Way To Fertilize Crops? The Answer May Be Blowin’ In The Wind
Crops like corn need nitrogen fertilizer, but it may be now be increasingly logical to harness wind … [+] or solar energy to make it dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Plants are naturally “s...
Examining Germany’s Post-Russia Path For Energy Sources
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar BERNAU, GERMANY – MAY 31: Wind turbines producing electricity spin on May 31, 2021 near Bernau, … [+] Germany. While the number of new installed turbines ...
Western Oil Companies, Facing New Demands, Find It Easier To Exit Russia
Loren Steffy, UH Energy Scholar NOVOKUIBYSHEVSK, RUSSIA – MARCH 15: A general view of the Novokuibyshev Refinery owned by Rosneft … [+] oil company on March 15, 2012 in Novokuibyshevsk, Sa...