environment

Trees can capture over 50% of the particulate matter in polluted urban air

Posted in Science on 27th Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

Trees Capture Particulate Matter From Road Exhaust.

Last minute deal saves fractious UN climate talks

Posted in Science on 24th Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

UN climate talks in Poland have ended with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming.

English seas get new marine conservation zones

Posted in Featured, Science on 22nd Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

The government has announced it will create 27 new marine conservation zones to protect wildlife in the seas around the English coast.

Wildlife and countryside groups attack progress on nature

Posted in Science on 19th Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

The government is failing to deliver a third of its commitments to protect the natural environment, a report says.

Evolution Can Select for Evolvability, Penn Biologists Find

Posted in Science on 16th Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

Evolution does not operate with a goal in mind; it does not have foresight. But organisms that have a greater capacity to evolve may fare better in rapidly changing environments.