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Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: This is more than just another AI gimmick, the University of Bonn researchers say: their new tool could help guide farmers on how to raise crops
Sarah Kerr at The Conversation: Climate activists Just Stop Oil launched a protest at Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old stone monument in southern England, a day before thousands of people planned to
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Jeannette Cooperman in The Common Reader: Tempted as I am to lavish consciousness on everything around me, I was fascinated to learn that tobacco and tomato plants click when they are stressed. The
Continue readingPlants Warn, Defend, Scream, Remember, and Plan Ahead
By Peter Savodnik at The Free Press: We will soon know a little more thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA blasted into space on Christmas 2021 and
Continue readingAstronomers May Have Found Life Beyond Earth
Emma Bryce in Anthropocene Magazine: People who follow a diet rich in plants cut their mortality risk by almost a third, while simultaneously slashing the climate impact of their food by
Elise Cutts at Quanta: We learn in grade school that water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, but that’s seldom true. In clouds, scientists have found supercooled water droplets as chilly
Shared by Arif Mirza, Toronto: NASA has classified Sansevieria–now called Snake plant–as an air purifier due to its ability to remove toxic compounds such as benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene and
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: When it comes to protecting animal species, you would think that conservation biologists, environmental advocates, and animal-loving members of the public are all on
Continue readingWhy Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator
Susan Hough at Asterisk: The reality is that earthquake prediction is hard. “Neither the USGS nor any other scientists have ever predicted a major earthquake,” reads the official statement on
Where is this?Banani DOHS, adjacent to Kurmitola golf course (Dhaka).Omg…Playing golf?Where is it? So many?See how discipline they are!Well, they live among the colonels and generals.😊All are very healthy. Must
by Zoe Harris at Singularity Hub: Vertical farms look high-tech and sophisticated, but the premise is simple—plants are grown without soil, with their roots in a solution containing nutrients. This
Continue readingFuture of Food: Four Myths About Vertical Farming Debunked by an Expert
by Rachael Petersen at Aeon: Gustav Theodor Fechner championed the idea that plants have souls – something we might call ‘consciousness’ today. I first learned of him in an interdisciplinary