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Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling’s editorial cartoons often dealt with the dire consequences of poor resource management. This one, ...

Prof. Mark Sutton works for the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, based at its Edinburgh Research Station. He is an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences. He ...

When I told Sadhguru — the Indian yogi, mystic, and founder of Conscious Planet and the Isha Foundation — that I was from Barbados, his eyes lit up. “My first pitch was in the Caribbean,” he said, ...

Do you recognize these 10 awesome metalhead cartoon characters? We’ve seen plenty of fictional metal bands and metalheads in movies and TV shows over the years, from Airheads’ radio station-hijacking ...

Smallholder farmers have been taught to restore soil health by learning sustainable farming practices like vermicomposting and integrated pest management. The adoption of these techniques has led to ...

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Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the moon. In a study published in the journal Joule, researchers extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon ...

On an early spring morning in central Wisconsin, the hills were still and serene under a frosty grey sky. Then the fight songs began. More than 200 students from 27 colleges and universities across ...

Nima Shokri receives funding from European Commission for the AI4SoilHealth project. One-third of the Earth’s land surface is already degraded. The UN estimates that more than 2.6 billion people are ...