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...Szaky's office could pass for a landfill. Szaky, 24, the co-founder and CEO of plant-food manufacturer TerraCycle, sits in a chair that was at one time another firm's trash, next to a computer on a desk that were both once trash, and, with near palpable enthusiasm, draws supply-and-demand graphs on scraps of paper to show why he's so fond of building his business out of trash. "What is garbage?" he asks, marker in hand. "It's any commodity with a negative value, right? It's something you're willing...
...more than 50 species of fish, shrimp and coral previously unknown to science that researchers from the environmental NGO Conservation International (CI) reported discovering off the Bird's Head peninsula of Indonesia's Papua province. Last year, a CI team uncovered dozens of new bird and plant species in Papua's Foja Mountains. This time, the group's study of the region's equally rich waters left its marine biologists "almost giddy," says expedition leader Mark Erdmann. "It's common enough to get a new species, but to discover them non-stop was completely unexpected and fun, like stepping back...
...Even more disturbing are recent studies showing that the bacteria may not be content to just live on the surface of produce, and may actually set up shop inside plant tissues, making them impossible to eliminate with a simple dousing in a chlorine bath, the current way that most fresh produce is cleaned. Eric Triplett, chair of microbiology and cell science at University of Florida, has published two studies documenting the ability of bacteria like salmonella to travel into a plant through its root system. "We just inoculate the roots and up they go, they fully colonize all over...
Brattle Street Florist 31 Brattle Street (617) 547-7089 Peace Lily, $12-$35. Feng Shui says this plant purifies the air. Or you could just stop pooping on the floor...
Fortunately, the proportion of women plant breeders and agricultural scientists has grown in recent years in places like Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Most African women scientists who are 40 or older "come from the land," says Margaret Karembu, director of the Nairobi office of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. "Our lives really revolved around the village and food production. We know what it means to have to collect water, to have to harvest all day. When you have more women like that being exposed to technology, it helps because they are more likely to work...