Massively Reducing Food Waste Could Feed the World

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September 28, 2021

Conservation Massively Reducing Food Waste Could Feed the World It would also greatly cut greenhouse gas emissions By Chad Frischmann,Mamta Mehra

Space Exploration Mars on the Cheap: Scientists Are Working to Revolutionize Access to the Red Planet The concepts include souped-up Mars helicopters and inexpensive orbiters and landers By Leonard David,SPACE.com

Climate Change Earth Could Be Alien to Humans by 2500 Unless greenhouse gas emissions drop significantly, warming by 2500 will make the Amazon barren, Iowa tropical and India too hot to live in By Christopher Lyon,Alex Dunhill,Andrew P. Beckerman,Ariane Burke,Bethany Allen,Chris Smith,Daniel J. Hill,Erin Saupe,James McKay,Julien Riel-Salvatore,Lindsay C. Stringer,Rob Marchant,Tracy Aze,The Conversation US

Epidemiology Closest Known Relatives of Virus Behind COVID-19 Found in Laos Studies of bats in China and Laos show southeast Asia is a hotspot for potentially dangerous viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Climate Change How Climate Change Helped Fires Cross the Sierra Nevada for the First Time High, rocky peaks are no longer an insurmountable hurdle for ever fiercer flames fueled by heat and drought By Andrea Thompson

Climate Change 'Historical' Western Drought Is Likely to Persist The severe dry conditions have left critical reservoirs depleted and helped fuel intense wildfires By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Microbiology These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change Photoferrotrophs have been around for billions of years on Earth, and new research suggests that they have played an outsize roll in the natural capture of carbon dioxide. By Shahla Farzan | 02:56

Electronics All Small Electronics Should Have the Same Charging Port, New E.U. Rule Says In a bid to reduce waste, a proposed regulation would require phones and other small electronics to switch to USB-C By Sophie Bushwick

Agriculture Living 'Bee Fences' Protect Farmers from Elephants, and Vice Versa A string of hives between posts can fend off the pachyderms better than other deterrents, research shows By Cari Shane

Medicine Do Monoclonal Antibodies Help COVID Patients? Experts explain what this treatment involves, who needs it and how to get it By Sara Reardon

Weather Hurricane Sam Is Latest Monster in Active Storm Season Tropical cyclones are becoming more intense, but not necessarily more frequent, with climate change By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Climate Change To Teach Students about Climate Change, 'Just the Facts' Isn't Enough We also need to talk about emotions and discuss pathways to action By Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

Consciousness Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking Fear of mortality might underlie physicists' fondness for the anthropic principle, multiverses, superdeterminism and other shaky ideas By John Horgan

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The First Comprehensive Look at Global Food Waste Is as Bad as You'd Expect The U.S. is one of the top offenders By Prachi Patel | August 2016

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