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Feather-based fuel? How millions of tons of poultry waste, an agricultural byproduct, could be transformed into clean, green hydrogen fuel cells

Anthropocene | 
Look at a chicken feather, and what you’re seeing is 91% keratin. Now a team of scientists have found a way to ...
Each half portion of beef you swap out could add 48 minutes to your life — and cut your meal’s carbon footprint by one third

Each half portion of beef you swap out could add 48 minutes to your life — and cut your meal’s carbon footprint by one third

Anthropocene | 
Substituting just half a portion of beef with a handful of nuts, vegetables, fruits, and seafood could buy you 48 ...
Sordid ledger: Humans’ destructive history of wiping out other species

Sordid ledger: Humans’ destructive history of wiping out other species

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Sometime in the late 1600s, in the lush forests of Mauritius, the very last dodo took its last breath. After ...
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What would life on Earth be like if humans were wiped out?

Live Science | 
What would happen to our planet — to our cities, to our industries, to nature — if humans disappeared? There ...
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How humans might play a role in our own extinction

Live Science | 
[W]hat if human extinction was less a cinematic scenario, and instead, a looming reality? That might seem like a sensational ...
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Feeding microbes expired bread during fermentation could yield cheaper, more sustainable food

Anthropocene | 
Wine, cheese, yoghurt and bread: all these culinary delights owe their existence to the work of microorganisms like bacteria, yeast, ...
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Eat less meat to cut CO2 emissions? That may not make your diet climate friendly, study shows

Anthropocene | 
In global diets, meat is not necessarily the main driver of dietary carbon emissions, finds a new study published in ...
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Crop diversity worldwide is growing, but wheat, maize (corn), soy, and rice cover almost 50% of farmland worldwide

Anthropocene | 
Global agriculture is increasingly dominated by just a handful of crops with limited genetic richness, says a group of researchers ...
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CAR-T cell therapy could drive a ‘revolution’ in cancer treatments

Wired | 
[T]he United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the landmark decision to approve two ‘drugs’ that use CAR-T cell ...
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Human Genome Project 2: Should scientists synthesize entire human genetic code from scratch?

Wired | 
In May 2016, scientists, lawyers and government representatives converged at Harvard to discuss the Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-Write), a plan ...

Mining Zika for genetic data may reveal how virus evolves, spreads and how it can be stopped

Wired | 
Pardis Sabeti is a computational geneticist who works at the Broad Institute of MIT Harvard, where she pinpoints the genetic ...

Does microbiome health matter to overall health?

Wired | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015, a flurry ...

Sequenced palm oil genome paves the way for sustainable plantations

Guardian | 
Few environmentalists feel any fondness for the oil palm, with its connections to deforestation in the tropics. But the waxy ...

Are biofuels endangering US wildlife?

Guardian | 
The following is an excerpt. A collection of satellite-imaged maps now confirm what were once only rumors: between 2006 and ...
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