Cactus Removes Single-Use Plastic For Bakery Products

Scientists have developed a hardened wood material that, when sharpened, is three times sharper than a stainless steel dinner knife, according to the new study on the work. The research comes from the University of Maryland’s Teng Li and a team that developed a new method to generate extremely hard wood. Among other things, the development may lead to more sustainable building materials.  Wood contains between 40- and 50-percent cellulose, with the rest of the material compromised of binders called lignin and hemicellulose. While cellulose has a greater strength-to-density ratio than materials like metal and ceramic, the binder materials make wood overall weaker than man-made counterparts.

For those who have completed a sea level rise vulnerability assessment, the next step of adaptation planning can seem overwhelming. It can be daunting to think about how to solve the many interconnected, complex, often large-scale challenges associated with the scale and magnitude of the problem. From involving multiple different stakeholders and communities, to navigating the complex landscape of decision-making, addressing historic inequities and injustice, re-building community trust, and making decisions today in the face of uncertainty for both future climate impacts and our societal choices, taking on sea level rise adaptation is complicated.