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

bioGraphic |
With the products of our technology now woven into remote ecosystems and our own flesh, there’s no escape from ourselves ...
Does Barbie cause girls to have negative feelings about their bodies?

Does Barbie cause girls to have negative feelings about their bodies?

Scientific American |
Barbie body image: A clinical health psychologist talks about Barbie’s influence on how women and girls view their body ...
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How GMO, gene-edited crops can help feed billions of people without fueling climate change

Wired |
We face a formidable challenge in the years ahead. We need to reduce [carbon] emissions and also sustain a growing ...
pests

Gene drives and eliminating invasive pests without bloodshed

Wired |
[Researcher Karl Campbell is] using a fiercely potent poison for the complete obliteration of rats on a 70-square-mile Galapagos island ...

Conservation efforts save some species, drive others to extinction

Slate |
Species reintroductions are some of the most dramatic and compelling stories in conservation. Bringing back wolves, black-footed ferrets, condors, and ...