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Bookmark or Share- Here's How to Compost if You Are an Apartment DwellerBeing a city dweller does not mean you cannot save the planet — or your food scraps. Climate change and resource management are big issues. Composting in any size space is not only possible, but it gives you a chance to reduce greenhouse gasses and reuse food scraps. Right now, about 40% of all food in the US goes to the landfill. In addition to planning meals and using your food in creative ...
- News Pesticides Used to Kill Zika Mosquitoes May Harm Babies Exposed ...Naled, applied as a fine mist about 100 feet off the ground, is considered to be an effective weapon to kill the mosquitoes that spread Zika. About a million pounds of naled are sprayed over the US every year, partly because Aedes mosquitoes (which spread Zika) are becoming resistant to safer insecticides.
- How NASA's Planetary Protection Officer Keeps Our Germs from ...A 2015 experiment called E-MIST lofted bacteria-laden plates attached to a balloon into Earth's stratosphere, to simulate how germs would react to exposure to conditions similar to Mars — radiation, no moisture or nutrients, and very cold. The bacteria aboard was Bacillus pumilus, a microbe commonly found in the soil that is exceptionally ...
- More Than 20 Pathogens Found Lurking in Medical Marijuana—Dosing Users ...The patient developed a rare and incurable fungal infection after using aerosolized marijuana that he inhaled as a mist, and that started the search for the infectious agent. A research team investigated the tragedy by analyzing 20 different samples of dried cannabis from Northern California dispensaries for the presence of potentially ...
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