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fromEarth911
43 minutes ago

About That $3,000 Bag of Groceries in Your Trash

Food waste in American households costs over $3,000 annually for a family of four, contributing significantly to climate change and resource depletion.
OMG science
fromPadailypost
1 month ago

Stanford Professor known for the book 'The Population Bomb' dead at 93

Paul Ehrlich, influential Stanford biologist and environmental movement figure, died at 93 after decades of controversial predictions about population growth, resource depletion, and environmental collapse.
Environment
fromEarth911
1 month ago

The 9 Rs of Circular Economy Explained

The global economy is only 7.2% circular, with 92% of consumed materials freshly extracted and discarded, requiring fundamental redesign through the 9 Rs framework to achieve zero-waste systems.
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

February 3: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Even in England, where the recent developments of paleontological botany have opened up new lines of research among the plants of the coal measures, the zeal of the followers of Scott and F. W. Oliver has led to the commercial exploitation of a coal mine in Lancashire where fine specimens of Lyginodendron, the Cycadofilicales, and the fossil seeds of the earlier tree ferns are to be found in abundance.
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