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UN Pushes Nature Rights

The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights. Read More ›
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Image: Graphene, by AlexanderAlUS, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape. Read More ›
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Photo: A wax worm, by Sam Droege, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution

Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions. Read More ›
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Wonderful Microbes Are the Planet’s Ecosystem Engineers

The few pathogens among bacteria give a bad rap to the majority that do wonderful things — for us and for our environment. Read More ›

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