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Policymakers, entrepreneurs and farmers are increasingly looking to soils in their fight to slow climate change. #SoilScience
✍️ @laurapoppick.bsky.social: knowmag.org/4fBMqAg
Slow-healing lesions — common in diabetics and burn victims — can lead to lingering infections that resist antibiotic treatment.
A new approach using light-activated therapies may offer a solution 💡
✍️ Zunnash Khan: knowmag.org/4vLV7Nt
🎣 Small-scale fishing has long been ignored by public policy, scientific research and global economics, but its potential to help end hunger and poverty is huge. New work is bringing it out of the shadows.
✍️ Iván Carrillo: knowmag.org/3PG38nF
🔥 In some overheating cities, slums are taking the lead on climate solutions.
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🍔 Marketed to meat lovers, plant-based burgers like Impossible and Beyond claim to taste like the real thing and to have far lighter environmental footprints. Here’s what the numbers have to say.
✍️ Bob Holmes: knowmag.org/3GGyHbS
Every type of cheese starts out as a bland, white lump of curd. They look and taste different when they’re mature largely because of the microbes that colonize them, breaking down the curd to yield a wide range of flavor compounds. #NationalCheeseDay (belated)
✍️ Ute Eberle: knowmag.org/4hB2O2Y
🐋 Happy #WorldOceansDay to the millions of people living on coastlines, eating tuna salad, and taking a salty dip this summer!
Read our 2021 article on the case for ocean optimism: knowmag.org/4ukDUJL
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From romaine to snack crackers, foodborne disease outbreaks have increasingly worried the public. Cold plasma and high-pressure systems might help reduce the risks. #WorldFoodSafetyDay
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🌊 Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay!
Read our 2021 Q&A with environmental law expert @johnhknox.bsky.social on why a healthy environment is a human right — now recognized as such by the UN Human Rights Council.
✍️ @katarinazimmer.bsky.social: knowmag.org/4uQ0laE
💭 Do cockroaches get lonely?
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Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water
Slow-healing lesions — common in diabetics and burn victims — can lead to lingering infections that resist antibiotic treatment. A new approach using light-activated therapies may offer a solution.
Marketed to meat lovers, plant-based burgers like Impossible and Beyond claim to taste like the real thing and to have far lighter environmental footprints. Here’s what the numbers have to say.
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Policymakers, entrepreneurs and farmers are increasingly looking to soils in their fight to slow climate change
Cheese is not just a tasty snack — it’s an ecosystem. And the fungi and bacteria within that ecosystem play a big part in shaping the flavor and texture of the final product.
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As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.
Small-scale fishing has long been ignored by public policy, scientific research and global economics, but its potential to help end hunger and poverty is huge. New work is bringing it out of the…
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With the health of the ocean under threat, a rallying cry for marine conservation goes global. Here are some of the good-news stories.
UN recognition would strengthen legal arguments for preserving nature
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From romaine to snack crackers, foodborne disease outbreaks have increasingly worried the public. Cold plasma and high-pressure systems might help reduce the risks.
