I love pizza, but the anchovies? Not so much. Little did I know that by skipping the anchovies I may actually be helping protect Earth’s natural CO2 cleansing system. Anchovy poop, new research suggests, is a really effective biocarbon stor…
Archives for October 2012
How Clean Is Too Clean?
Hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial soaps are fine to use and even better to keep handy when you’re sick. But, using them too much early on in life can result in allergies. That’s according to a recent study which finds that the immune syst…
The Chemistry Behind Great Food Pairings
Red wine and steak, soda and burgers, pickles and pastrami sandwiches — these are combinations that just work. Now researchers provide a scientific explanation for why these unions are appealing to the tongue. Astringents like red wine and pickle…
Rutgers Apiculture Club Maintains Bee Colonies
Rutgers University is abuzz with a new student organization. Hive, The Apiculture Society at Rutgers, convened in April, and since that time has started and nurtured four beehives, the sweet and sticky spoils of which were recently harvested. Founder C…
Hidden Potential – Breeding Hazelnuts for Food and Fuel
Rutgers turf breeder the late C. Reed Funk had a vision of the potential of growing nut crops as efficient sources of food and fuel. Read how he developed and supported the hazelnut breeding program and left it in the hands of his young protege.
White House Honors ‘Champion’ Highland Grad
The White House earlier this week honored 2011 Highland Regional High School graduate and Camden County 4-H participant Neeta Patel as a "Champion of Change…" This past week, Obama’s White House selected the 4-H program as one to highlight wi…
Some climate scientists, in a shift, link weather to global warming
The worst drought in half a century has plagued two-thirds of the nation, devastating farms and stoking wildfires that scorched almost 9 million acres this year…"If you have a rainy pattern and it hangs around for a long time, then that becomes a…
Francis Mansue Inducted into National 4-H Hall of Fame
New Jersey resident honored at ceremony held during National 4-H week in October
New oyster reef addition planted
Bill Shadel, the Habitat Restoration Program Director for the American Littoral Society, hopes the new oyster reef site planted in Barnegat Bay this past Wednesday will do good for the health of the ecosystem…The Good Luck Point reef site is being de…
Rutgers University Makes Real-Time Marine Data Accessible
The Coastal Ocean Observation Lab at Rutgers University (RU-COOL) is using Unidata and other open source technologies to collect, process, and make available a wide range of ocean data for use by students and researchers. We believe that our collection…