The greenest day of the year will always be St. Patrick’s Day.
Cities around the world celebrated the Irish holiday on Sunday by turning their most famous landmarks green. It’s amazing what a quick dye job can do to your standard government building….
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Some icebergs are a glorious emerald green. Why?
While traversing the seas off of eastern Antarctica in 1988, glaciologist Stephen Warren came upon green icebergs floating in the ocean. “We never expected to see green icebergs,” said Warren, noting that a deep blue hue — not emerald green — is commonly observed in these chunks of ice.
Over three decades later, Warren and a team of researchers have put forward an explanation for these rarely seen icebergs’ green hue. Their hypothesis, published Monday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, argues that tiny iron-rich rocky particles, similar to flour or dust, are the culprits. Specifically, this finely ground-up rock, aptly named “glacial flour,” gets trapped in the ice on the bottom of ice shelves — the ends of glaciers that float over the ocean — ultimately lending to the ice’s deep green appearance. When the icebergs eventually snap off, the fresh bergs carry the verdant hue. Read more…
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Two NASA satellites have watched Earth grow greener over the last 20 years — in large part because China is hellbent on planting millions of trees.
Earth’s greening — meaning the increase in areas covered by green leaves — has made the greatest gains in China and India since the mid-1990s. “The effect comes mostly from ambitious tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries,” NASA wrote on Tuesday as it released maps of the planet-wide changes.
China kickstarted its tree-planting mobilizations in the 1990s to combat erosion, climate change, and air pollution. This dedicated planting — sometimes done by soldiers — equated to over 40 percent of China’s greening, so far. Read more…
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Is cannabis a gateway drug?
We spoke to Dr. Strouse, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA about whether or not marijuana could serve as a gateway drug to harder, more dangerous drugs.
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It’s 2018 and gardens can be put anywhere now
You can put gardens on a bike, your eyebrows, on your kitchen counter, or on the highway. Read more…More about Mobile, Mashable Video, Environment, Trends, and Green
View More It’s 2018 and gardens can be put anywhere nowPlant killers rejoice! These 5 indoor plants were made just for you
We went to visit The Sill in New York City to find indoor plants that would be great for beginners. Chris Satch, a plant expert at The Sill, recommended 5 plants for all the plant killers out there. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Water, Green…
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Hey, plant parents: It’s winter, it’s gross outside, and both you and your indoor plants are having a hard time staying cozy.
If your green thumb (or lack thereof) is itching to get into indoor gardening (or stop spending your life savings on grocery store kale), let us introduce you to GroBox One: A new take on the indoor greenhouse, without all the BS — plus, it looks super cool.
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View More Grobox is the soilless, aesthetically pleasing indoor greenhouse that you needScientists created a Tetris game powered by jellyfish DNA
Bixels is an educational tool developed by Cell-Free Technology which provides self-assembly kits for retro games.
Using Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), which is the protein that makes jellyfish glow, the 8×8 pixel display can be programmed to be li…
S’well bottles make reducing your plastic footprint easier (and more stylish)
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Seven years ago, a woman named Sarah Kauss set out to design a vessel that would make plastic water bottles obsolete. A lofty goal? Um, y…