Sustainability Archives – Page 4 of 5

Do you love tuna sushi? Did you know that the number of tuna in the ocean has gone down drastically due to overfishing? The law of supply…

Researchers in Germany and Switzerland used next generation sequencing to study an active aquaponics system. They sampled a biofilm from the…

Choosing the right species of algae is one of the most important first steps, they report, as it ultimately impacts the engine’s…

The latest cutting-edge water filtration technique comes from a biochemistry process that predates even dinosaurs. It involves harnessing…

Organic farming and conventional farming each have their own strengths and weaknesses that depend on application.

Nitrogen pollution is a big problem in standing water such as lakes and ponds. The nitrogen comes from many sources, often agricultural…

Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…

A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…

For several decades scientists have been interested in the ability of psychrophilic (cold- loving) microbial communities to degrade the…

Human-caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to…