The following is a ThinkProgress.org article by Natasha Geiling, posted July 23, 2015, with the above title: Aside from corn, rice might be the single most important staple crop on Earth. According to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, more than 3.5 billion people around the world depend on rice for at least 20 percent of their daily caloric intake. But rice is also a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas...
Read MoreThe following NatureWorldReport.com article posted on July 24 by Ian Lang and with the title above is one of many regarding an innovative method of collecting data about whales: Whales – why study them? Well, for starters they’re among the largest creatures to ever live on Earth, and most species happen to be threatened or endangered. The problem is, as smart as they are, whales lack the capacity to understand that the men...
Read MoreThe following Whitehouse.gov article was written by Scott Kelly, a NASA astronaut currently spending a year on the International Space Station, and posted on July 20, 2015 with the title above: No one on this planet had ever seen a whole picture of the Earth until 1972. We knew we lived on it, and had a vast amount of useful information about its makeup, its processes, and its place in the solar system. At the time, some of the most...
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