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Boeing, Etihad, GE and MIST to build world’s first aquaculture and biofuel plant at Masdar City

Biofuels have a bad reputation for eating up precious land and water resources, as well as pilfering food from...

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World’s rarest cetacean could be extinct by 2018 due to illegal gillnetting

The vaquita is the rarest, smallest and most endangered cetacean in the world. It's estimated that fewer than 100...

bioremediation, phytoremediation, pollution, remove toxicity, brownfield, industrial site, heavy metals

5 Species That Eat Pollution for Breakfast

Bioremediation can refer to the use of microbes, fungi (mycoremediation) or plants (phytoremediation) that have...

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Harvard Scientists Create Super Strong Degradable Bioplastic from Shrimp Shells

Thanks to a team of Harvard scientists, being called a "shrimp" will no longer amount to an insult. The University's...

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Bycatch: There’s More Than Just Your Seafood on the Line

Americans love to eat seafood. In fact, seafood consumption in the United States has grown 50 percent in the last...

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