Month: January 2018
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STUDY: Earthworms Increase Crop Yields By Up To 75%
Let earthworms unlock the nutrients in your soil and watch your garden grow!
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Scientists Discover a Ticking Time Bomb Under Melting Arctic Ice
As frozen soil thaws, prehistoric bacteria are coming back to life and converting woolly mammoth remains into greenhouse gases, which could cause global warming to spiral out of control Scientists have been warning us about the potential catastrophe of melting Arctic ice for decades. Now they’ve discovered a new threat underneath the ice – thawing…
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“Ghost Cat” Gone: Eastern Cougar Officially Declared Extinct
80 years after its last sighting, officials say the iconic cougar of the Eastern United States is gone forever The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the eastern cougar from the endangered species list this week, because it is no longer endangered. It’s extinct.
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How Human Urine Can Replace Chemical Fertilizer
Farmers are using human urine as a natural, sustainable alternative to fossil-fuel-based fertilizers “Bring us your liquid gold,” the founders of Rich Earth Institute beckon their neighbors on their website.
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Outdoor Lessons Double Students’ Attention Span, Study Finds
Teachers were able to teach twice as long without interruption after a lesson taught outdoors A growing body of research indicates there are numerous benefits to increasing the amount of time school children spend outdoors. It improves their academic scores, mental health and physical health. Following Europe’s lead, American schools are considering giving students more…
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Dark Chocolate Vegan Paleo Pie with Homemade Crust
Want an incredibly rich and decadent chocolate pie that’s good for you? Made with all-natural ingredients that are completely vegan and paleo-friendly, this chocolate pie not only tastes divine, it’s healthy.
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Organic Burial Pods Could Replace Coffins and Transform Gravestones Into Trees
These egg-shaped, biodegradable burial pods allow your body to become the “seed” of a new tree when you die Every year Americans cut down 4 million acres of hardwood forest to bury our dead.
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Plastic Piles Up Around the World After China Refuses to Recycle It
Inundated with more plastic than it can recycle, China says its done being the “world’s garbage dump,” causing backups and chaos at recycling plants across Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia For the last 2o years, China recycled about half of the world’s plastics and paper products. While this helped supply its manufacturing boom, the…
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Norway Outlaws Fur-Farming
A year after Europe’s largest-ever anti-fur march, Norway is banning the practice of farming animals for fashion
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Why It’s Time to Un-Potty-Train Ourselves
Toilets waste massive amounts of water and essential nutrients that could be used in place of chemical fertilzers An article in I F**king Love Science encourages people to pee in their showers to save water and the planet “just a little bit.” They calculate the average American uses around 4000 gallons of water flushing…