(Natural News) Experts from the University of Sheffield in the U.K. have revealed how plants provide air to every cell in their bodies. Furthermore, they point out that human intervention has influenced how plants breathe. The study was headed by Andrew Fleming, a professor at Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food. Their study was published in the journal Nature Communications. Plants […]

(Natural News) As major cities all over Europe go into lockdown, levels of air pollution are dropping dramatically. Levels of particulate matter, which usually come from vehicles burning fuel, as well as nitrogen dioxide from vehicle exhausts, have been dropping in London, Paris, Rome, Milan and many other major cities in Europe. According to data […]

(Natural News) The ongoing coronavirus outbreak could be nature’s way of sending us a message warns Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Andersen stated that humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world and that the coronavirus was one of the consequences of doing so. Andersen, along with other […]

(Natural News) The quest for renewable energy has led some scientists to think small, that is, on a microscopic scale. A recent study has demonstrated how mixing microbes and a carbon nanomaterial can be used to help create biohybrid materials that can be used in several green energy applications. Led by Pascal Sailaly, a team […]

(Natural News) Plants such as trees form symbiotic relationships with bacteria and fungi in the soil, with the latter helping capture nutrients and minerals from the environment. In turn, the tree shares some of the food that it produces using the energy of the sun with these bacteria and fungi. Now, a study published in the journal Nature […]

(Natural News) Food waste is detrimental to the environment. With over 150,000 tons of food wasted each day in the United States alone, many conscious consumers are starting to look for ways to reduce their impact. If you’re one of those people who want to reduce their own food waste, one thing you can do right now […]

(Natural News) Fuel cell technology has been around for some time. The first truly modern fuel cell vehicles came from the 1950s and 1960s, when they were used on experimental vehicles such as the 1966 Electrovan, a van which was outfitted with a fuel cell that took up so much space it could only fit two people. Fuel cell technology was even […]

(Natural News) Chemists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign managed to successfully create liquid fuel from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water using gold nanoparticles. The process was inspired by photosynthesis, the energy production method of plants. The study was a collaboration between Sungju Yu, a postdoctoral researcher and Prashaint Jain, a chemistry professor. They published their findings in Nature […]

(Natural News) A proposed bill in the Philippines could provide schools with an eco-friendly premise, once it’s passed into law: Students in both high school and college would need to plant at least 10 trees each to cement their spot in the graduation ceremonies. The bill, which has already passed the lower house of Congress, will seek […]

(Natural News) With the incredibly hectic pace of modern life it can be difficult to take the time to stop and smell the roses. Surrounded as we are by electronic and other man-made devices, we sometimes forget that there are incredibly complex natural systems all around us that quietly just go about doing their work […]