12-04-10 The trade in live plants from around the world has become a major industry in the United States, with new imports now valued at more than $500 billion annually. According to a study conducted by researchers at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for...

11-08-24 Baylor University environmental researchers have proposed in a new study a different approach to predict the environmental safety of chemicals by using data from other similar chemicals. For many chemicals in use every day, scientists do not have en...

11-06-14 Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK), or l'art du dplacement (the art of movement) is where participants jump, vault, and climb over obstacles in a fluid manner. It is a non-competitive way to move fluidly despite ones environment. It was developed...

11-06-01 In addition to its damaging effect on the environment and its illegal smuggling into developing countries, researchers have now linked e-waste to adverse effects on human health, such as inflammation and oxidative stress（氧化应激） precursors to ca...

11-02-01 Research by the University of Exeter has revealed that ants have a big impact on their local environment as a result of their activity as 'ecosystem engineers' and predators（捕食者） . The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, found th...

11-01-10 New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000 years, causing researchers to estimate a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet by the year 3...

10-12-17 UCSF researchers have shown for the first time that the human fetal（胎儿的） immune system arises from an entirely different source than the adult immune system, and is more likely to tolerate than fight foreign substances in its environment. The f...

10-12-16 The manufacturing of nanomaterials has been steadily on the rise in the medical, industrial, and scientific fields. Nanomaterials are materials that are engineered to have dimensions less than 100 nanometers and have very unique properties as a resu...

10-12-16 The Chinese term pa ke(handkerchief advocator) became popular after one of China's online messaging service providers launched a handkerchief design campaign last year to encourage the use of handkerchiefs to protect the environment. The winner will...

10-09-26 The first cultivar（培育植物） of 'ōhelo berry, a popular native Hawaiian fruit, has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their university and industry cooperators. 'helo (Vaccinium reticulatum Smith) is a small, na...