How Does Public Transportation Help the Environment?

Source: science.howstuffworks.com Published: August 29, 2012 Does public transportation help or hurt the environment? John A Rizzo/GETTY By Jonathan Atteberry In January 2004, the citizens of Milan, Italy, were preparing for a strike that would shut down all public...

Designing Cities to Combat Climate Change

Source: phys.org Published: May 24, 2016 The downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) skyline from a levee along the Trinity River. Facing southeast. Credit: drumguy8800/Wikipedia By Brian Wallheimer, Purdue University Urban planners can take steps to reduce the heat cities may...

Soil Microbe Transplants Could Help Restore Damaged Ecosystems

Source: popsci.com Published: July 11, 2016 Researchers at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Wageningen University found not only that a small amount of donor, healthy soil helped to restore ecosystems, but also that the land restored to the specific type of...

How Exactly Do Wolves Change Rivers?

Source: happycow.net Published: July 20, 2015 “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”— John Muir – image Click here to watch “How Wolves Change Rivers”: https://youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q When wolves were...

Smog-Busting Roof Tiles Could Clean Tons of Pollution

Source: latimes.com Published: June 6, 2014 By Tony BarbozaStaff Writer  UC Riverside researchers say they have demonstrated an inexpensive roof coating that gobbles up smog-forming pollutants and, if widely adopted, could clean tons of air pollution from Southern...