Archive for October 2019
Study: Green stuff is still stuff, and you can’t buy happiness
Shopping isn’t just a transactional experience driven by necessity, as decades of research into consumer behavior – these days, increasingly sophisticated and tech-driven research – has demonstrated. We buy clothes because they’re an expression of identity. We buy cars because
Our pollutants can alter the behavior of aquatic creatures
It isn't just people who end up suffering the consequences of waterborne pollutants. Wildlife does too.
King penguins will be in for a rough ride in Antarctica
Most of the birds might be gone by the end of this century, scientists warn, owing to warming global temperatures.
A bright idea: plants made to serve as lamps at night
Imagine combining lamps with indoor plants. Would it not be cool? Researchers have done just that.
Invasive snails have a new foe in rice paddies: local ducks
"There was only a few of them last year. This year the snails are all over the fields," one Burmese farmer said.
A Mexican rainforest yields a whole new antibiotic
Scientists have discovered a brand-new antibiotic known as phazolicin.