teleSUR English Ohio is one of several states in the union that has become a hot spot for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” which is a natural gas and oil extraction method that involves horizontal drilling to shatter the deep shale layer to release natural gas ... and more »
Techly University of Queensland Sustainable Minerals Institute are looking into plants called hyperaccumulators to extract metals such as nickel or cobalt from soil. Based on the practice of phytoextraction – the process by which a plant removes elements from ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia Corbett opposes the Environmental Protection Agency standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, and instead supports helping coal-fired power plant owners improve pollution control. As governor, Corbett has not set or ... and more »
Christian Science Monitor Carbon capture and storage, which would extract carbon dioxide from power- plant emissions and pump the CO2 into rock formations deep underground, faces its own set of issues. The IPCC acknowledges that as currently understood, there are biological ... and more »
KVUE Texas Children's Hospital, one of the largest epilepsy centers in the country, has been chosen as one of 10 sites for the first clinical trial of a marijuana-based drug called Epidiolex, a highly purified extract of the cannabis plant containing pure ...
Huffington Post The sugar substitute is extracted from the stevia plant . A species called Stevia rebaudiana is naturally grown in Brazil and Paraguay, where it has been used for hundreds of years to sweeten foods and treat burns and stomach discomfort, LiveScience ...
