Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 01 2007 | environment, news, recyclingQuoted: Once a month, John Ebiwari drags an iron rake through the open sewer that runs in front of his house in Nigeria's sprawling commercial capital of Lagos and scoops out the discarded plastic bags that block the flow of bubbling black filth.
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2007 | news, science, environment
Quoted: Researchers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Memorial University of Newfoundland took part in an exciting survey of unexplored depths of the Atlantic Ocean during a three-week mission in July 2007. Deep water corals were a primary focus of the research.
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2007 | news, environment, genome
Genetically modified plants vacuum up toxins
Quoted: By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out a way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental cleanup, U.S. and British researchers reported on Monday.
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