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Feeding body and soul: Alum leads zero-waste bulk buying group

By Guest PostSeptember 7, 2024Environmentbulk buying group, falmouth community, good food, natural food store, sustainable foods, waquoit village, zero waste

Upon her retirement from full-time ministry in 2016, Janet Smith-Rushton ’78 M.Div. retreated to Waquoit Village, a serene community nestled in the town of Falmouth on Cape Cod—but she hasn’t slowed down. Putting to work the values that defined her time as a minister, she leads the Waquoit Zero Waste Bulk Buying Group, a grassroots initiative that provides access to healthy, sustainable foods in a region lacking fresh and wholesome options. (more…)

Klimawandel: 5 Mrd. Dollar Schaden für US-Skiindustrie

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2024Environmentglobale erwaermung, klimakrise, klimawandel, pariser klimaabkommen, skiindustrie

Zum ersten Mal wurde in einer Studie der wirtschaftliche Schaden des Klimawandels für die Skiindustrie geschätzt. Die Studie der Universität Innsbruck und der University of Waterloo in Kanada deckt auf, dass die volkswirtschaftlichen Verluste der US-Skiindustrie durch den vom Menschen verursachten Klimawandel in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten mehr als 5 Milliarden US-Dollar betrugen. (more…)

Injectable Water Filtration System Could Improve Access to Clean Drinking Water

By Guest PostFebruary 11, 2024Environmentclean drinking water, hydrogel filter, portable water filtration, safe drinking water, water filtration solution

AUSTIN, Texas — More than 2 billion people, approximately a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to clean drinking water. A new, portable and affordable water filtration solution created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin aims to change that. (more…)

Smart Farming Platform Improves Crop Yields, Minimizes Pollution

By Guest PostNovember 6, 2023Environmentchemical runoff, crop yields, new farming system, overuse of fertilizers, smart farming, smart farming system

AUSTIN, Texas — A new farming system developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin aims to solve one of the biggest problems in modern agriculture: the overuse of fertilizers to improve crop yields and the resulting chemical runoff that pollutes the world’s air and water. (more…)

Gentrification Changes the Personality Makeup of Cities in a Short Time

By Guest PostMarch 19, 2022Environmentbig 5, city, gentrification, housing prices, personality, rising housing costs, samuel gosling, selective migration, social acculturation

AUSTIN, Texas —A study of almost 2 million U.S. residents across 199 cities shows that rising housing costs may drive increases in “openness” of character among residents of a city — all in well under a decade. The findings, published in the journal American Psychologist, indicate that increasing affluence can rapidly change a city’s personality by attracting certain types of newcomers and by changing the environment around established residents. (more…)

Imaging technique could help identify where landslides

By Guest PostSeptember 4, 2021Environmentearthquake, gen li, identify, imaging technique, landslide, longmen mountains, seulgi moon, topographic stress modeling

New approach developed by UCLA’s Seulgi Moon

Each year, landslides kill thousands of people around the world and cause catastrophic property damage. But scientists are still trying to better understand the circumstances that cause them. Doing so would go a long way toward helping people predict where landslides could occur and how severe they might be. (more…)

‘Howl-itosis’ a Problem? UArizona Inventor Creates Bacteria Strain to Quell Bad Dog Breath

By Guest PostAugust 22, 2021Environment, Sciencebacteria strain, bad dog breath, cyverse program, david baltrus, eric lyons, howl itosis, startup, upetsiar

University startup uPetsia has licensed the technology to develop it and take it to the marketplace.

University of Arizona researchers have developed a harmless bacteria strain to battle bad breath in our furry friends. (more…)

‘Slow Slip’ Earthquakes’ Hidden Mechanics Revealed

By Guest PostJune 20, 2021Environmentadrien arnulf, damaging quakes, hikurangi subduction zone, laura wallace, motion tremor, new zealand, slow slip earthquake, subduction zone, tectonic energy

AUSTIN, Texas — Slow slip earthquakes, a type of slow motion tremor, have been detected at many of the world’s earthquake hotspots, including those found around the Pacific Ring of Fire, but it is unclear how they are connected to the damaging quakes that occur there. Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have now revealed the earthquakes’ inner workings using seismic CT scans and supercomputers to examine a region off the coast of New Zealand known to produce them. (more…)

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