In 2001, a group of scientists in Japan discovered a bacteria called Ideonella Sakaiensis 201-F6 feasting upon polyethylene terephthalate (PET) deep within a landfill. Since their discovery, we have generated 2.5 billion tons of plastic waste, adding about 380 million…
Dr. Israel Parker is a researcher and mammologist. He has been working at the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute since 2012 and recently moved to Munich with his family. Charis Höft-Schreiner interviews him for TechTalkers about one of his exciting…
The state of the environment has greatly diminished since European-Colonizer feet sunk deep into the land. Now we are realizing that we must learn to tread lightly on the ground beneath us. The Problem with Euro-American Land Management There are…