Discovery Cafe: food environment and food choice

published May 14, 2012

How does the environment around us contribute to our food choices? Christopher Wharton discussed the health and environmental effects of our food choices at OKED's inaugural Discovery Cafe.

The desert Southwest: oasis or mirage?

published May 3, 2012

In the face of a changing environment, citizens of the American Southwest must reevaluate how to use one of our most precious resources.

Energy economics

published April 27, 2012

Profile of Matthew Croucher.

ASU scientists help uncover complex causes, consequences of changes in the environment

published April 16, 2012

Researchers are finding that human interaction with the environment can complicate the effects of climate change on natural water sources.

ASU, Stanford examine implications of bioenergy crops

published February 2, 2012

Researchers find that certain crops used to create ethanol may also lower local surface temperatures.

Insects rank high on inventory of newly discovered species

published January 30, 2012

More than 19,000 new species were discovered in 2009, and more than half were insects.

Costs of parking include big 'environmental footprint'

published January 23, 2012

We know that driving has an environmental impact, but what about parking?

Effects of a world awash in nitrogen

published December 29, 2011

We can add an over-abundance of nitrogen to the list of effects that humans are having on Earth's ecosystems. How large will the impact be?

Algae Biomass Summit 2011

published December 8, 2011

Algae as a renewable fuel? Scientists, industry and policy-makers met Minneapolis to discuss ways to make it happen.

Making styrene without petroleum

published December 5, 2011

ASU engineers have found a way to use renewable plant resources, in place of petroleum, to create plastic materials used to make hundreds of different products.

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