Bioenergy Sorghum: The Green Crop of the Future
Bioenergy sorghum hybrids can restore carbon levels in soil, improve soil fertility, provide biomass for biofuel production, and combat climate change.
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Environmental Policy Matters with Science Debate
This series of articles about environmental policy issues was made possible by Science Debate, for a scientifically literate electorate.
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Science Policy Challenges in Four Parts
Dr. Jonathan Trinastic investigates four major science policy issues and how the federal government can join scientists in finding solutions.
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Book Review: Science By the People
In Science By the People, Kimura and Kinchy describe their challenging research subject: understanding how people are impacted by science.
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Recycled Smartphones Hunt Down Illegal Loggers
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore In the summer of 2011 Topher White, founder of Rainforest Connection, a nongovernmental organization (NGO), visited the rain forests of Borneo as a tourist. He was shocked to learn that among the buzzing of insects, chirping of birds, and howling of gibbons, illegal loggers were sawing down a tree, just a few hundred meters away from a ranger station. The guards could not hear the noise of the chainsaw amid the cacophony of sounds. Deforestation accounts for the second-highest emission of greenhouse gases—even higher than that…
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