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These Ontario students may have figured out how to rid the great lakes of microbeads

Science et technologiePar Global Goodness 20/04/2016 Laisser un commentaire

The Great Lakes are polluted with innumerable microbeads, miniscule pieces of plastic most commonly found in hygiene products such as toothpastes, face washes and body scrubs. Just half a millimetre, they’re too small to be picked up by most filtration systems. To try to end this micropolution, Nine Grade 11 and 12 students at Gordon…

Trees deal with climate change better than expected

Science et technologiePar Global Goodness 14/04/2016 Laisser un commentaire

The bend-don’t-break adaptability of trees extends to handling climate change, according to a new study that says forests may be able to deal with hotter temperatures and contribute less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than scientists previously thought. In addition to taking in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, plants also release it through a process called…