Set to a backdrop of stunning photography from the International League of Conservation Photographers, leading marine scientists from Stanford and MBARI discuss the role of the ocean in climate change and the potential impacts of a targeted 2C rise in...
Tata Group, the Indian company behind the tiny, super-cheap Nano car, has just announced it will be selling a low-cost water filter.
The Tata ‘Swach’ purifier is less than one metre tall, and does not need running water or electricity to work…. The...
Most simply, a snow crystal forms when an already supercooled cloud particle freezes. However, this event is the result of a delicate balance among the variables described in the Nakaya Diagram.
via The Unbelievable World of Snowflakes :...
In the last three years alone, more than 9,400 of the nation’s 25,000 sewage systems — including those in major cities — have reported violating the law by dumping untreated or partly treated human waste, chemicals and other hazardous materials...
A report released Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life.“Parts of the deep sea that we assumed were homogenous are actually quite...