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Deforestation long overlooked as contributor to climate change
Source - When it comes to tackling climate change, the focus often falls on reducing the use of fossil fuels and developing sustainable energy sources. But a new study shows that deforestation and subsequent use of lands for agriculture or pasture, especially in tropical regions, contribute more to climate change than previously thought.
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Weeds as soil bioindicators: How to sample and use data
Source - The story of how discarded orange peels turbocharged a Costa Rican forestSource - Sixteen years after a controversial biodegradation plan allowed 1,000 truckloads of orange peels to be unloaded onto a barren, deforested area of Costa Rican land, a team of Princeton researchers has discovered unexpectedly positive results. The area that was covered with orange waste...
- 99 percent of microbes in your body are completely unknown to science
Source - Whenever you feel lonely, just remember: you're always carrying several hundred trillion friends with you. A dizzying number of microbes call the human body home, and it turns out that science knows very little about most of them. In fact, a new Stanford survey of the foreign DNA fragments circulating in the human body has found that 99 percent of microbes inside us are completely unknown to...- How soil dwelling bacteria adapt to richer or poorer conditions in marriage of convenience with plants
Source - Scientists have identified a unique mechanism that the soil dwelling bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens uses to effectively exploit nutrients in the root environment. - 99 percent of microbes in your body are completely unknown to science