The cress plants that did not grow under the plastic bottle need another one or two days before they can be harvested. The bottle acts as a miniature greenhouse for the germinating plants, providing ...

providing a more sustainable solution to greenhouse cooling and better human health. "Most commercial mulch is plastic and extremely wasteful. It results in about 1.5 million tons of waste ...

Avoiding a decrease in crop yield typically requires increased energy inputs – more water, more cooling ... is used for polytunnels, plastic sheets for rigid greenhouses, and netting.

Need another reason to ditch straws? A study published yesterday (August 1) in PLOS ONE reports that plastics—ranging from construction materials to plastic bags—release the greenhouse gases methane ...

and these temperature changes are often referred to as "global warming" or "global cooling." Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere have been naturally rising and falling for billions of ...