Valued for it's antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to washing machines.
You know that green scum creeping across the surface of your local public water reservoir" Or maybe it's choking out a favorite fishing spot or livestock watering hole. It's probably cyanobacteria - blue-green algae - and, according to a paper in the April 4 issue of the journal Science, it relishes the weather extremes that accompany global warming.
SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, announced today that it is living up to its name by using the power of the sun itself in everything from advertising to producing the product.
Park Farm, the HQ for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his River Cottage team, is currently undergoing something of a revamp.
Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists speaking today (Wednesday 2 April 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
As gas prices continue to soar to record highs, motorists are crying out for an alternative that won’t cramp their pocketbooks.
With organic food and eco-friendly cleaning supplies now widely available, being 'green' at home is getting easier. When it comes to killing bugs, however, most people still reach for chemical insecticides because they are not aware that safe and effective botanical alternatives exist.
Could part of the answer to saving the Earth from global warming lie in the
earth beneath our feet?
A team from Newcastle University aims to design soils that can remove carbon
from the atmosphere, permanently ...
Proving that simple acts can have a big impact, Sodexo announced today that after only one year, its switch to recycled napkins in 1,300 foodservice operations nationwide has resulted in saving nearly ten million gallons of water, more than 23,000 trees, half a million gallons of oil and five and a half million kilowatts of energy.
The University of Oregon's Jim Hutchison already holds three patents in the emerging field of nanotechnology as well as leadership roles in organizations that promote the technology's potential in materials science and medicine.
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