Plants digest diesel and polyester, break down pesticides and fabric dyes, and store heavy metals in their bodies. Exploiting nature’s powers to clean up the environment

Plants digest diesel and polyester, break down pesticides and fabric dyes, and store heavy metals in their bodies. Exploiting nature’s powers to clean up the environment

Emma Marris | bioGraphic |
With the products of our technology now woven into remote ecosystems and our own flesh, there’s no escape from ourselves ...
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Sustainable AquaBounty GMO salmon, blocked in US, offers way out of ‘deadly spiral of overfishing’

Richard Martin | bioGraphic |
One day in 1992, a technology entrepreneur sat down for a meeting with a pair of biologists who were studying ...
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Sustainable ‘superfish’: AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon poised to counter overfishing

Richard Martin | bioGraphic |
At current rates, according to a 2006 article in the journal Science, the world will run out of all wild-caught fish ...
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Biopesticides: Leveraging nature’s pesticides to protect our food

Brooke Borel | bioGraphic |
[Brooke Borel writes in bioGraphic about a demonstration trial in Canada using bumble bees to deliver a 'biopesticide' to a ...