Notable & Quotable: Climate Change and War and other top stories.

• Notable & Quotable: Climate Change and War

  

  From April 13 testimony by Robert H. Scales, a retired Army major general, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works regarding the Obama administration’s linking of climate change and national security: The common spark for all wars is jealousy and greed amplified by centuries-long animosities and political...

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• CRISPR-Edited Button Mushroom Bypasses GMO Food Rules: USDA Explains Why

  

  Mutant mushrooms escape government regulations. A CRISPR-edited white mushroom goes unregulated by the USDA because it doesn’t contain genes from bacteria or viruses that affect its DNA.(Photo : Mike Licht | Flickr) The CRISPR-edited button white mushroom bypassed the regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on genetically modified organisms (GMO's). Agaricus bisporus (white mushrooms) are the most commonly consumed mushrooms in the United States. However, they turn br..

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• Spuds from the Red Planet? NASA really does want to grow potatoes on Mars

  

  In a case of life imitating art, NASA, like the fictional botanist Mark Watney, is experimenting with growing Martian potatoes, though so far only in the Mars-like soil of the Peruvian desert. Growing food will be critical to long-term human missions to Mars."In 'The Martian,' Mark Watney uses the Martian soil to grow potatoes in the controlled environment of the 'Hab,'" NASA writes in a blog post. "In reality, the soil on Mars actually does have the nutrients plants would need to survive on Ma..

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• Yes, you should listen to Bill Nye instead of Sarah Palin on climate change

  

  Sarah Palin speaks during a panel discussion before a preview of the film “Climate Hustle” on Capitol Hill on Thursday, April 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The basic science of climate change is firmly established, and it’s overwhelmingly accepted by experts in the field. And it’s not just theoretical: Real-world evidence of a changing climate assails us constantly. Global temperatures in March were scorchingly hot, a new record for that month, at well over a full degree Celsius (1.8 degre..

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• Chernobyl zone turns into testbed for Nature's rebound

  

  What happens when the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is left all but abandoned for nearly 30 years? In the case of Chernobyl, it becomes a unique chance to see how wildlife recovers in what is a giant nature reserve, bereft of humans but ...

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• Stanford physicists help discover hidden dwarf dark galaxy

  

  The discovery supports a powerful tool for discovering galaxies that are otherwise too distant to observe, and could lead to advances that improve our understanding of dark matter. Facebook; Twitter; Email. New analysis of an image taken by the Atacama ...

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