http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen Green Screen offers news and stories about global ecological conditions and monitors the events, research and trends impacting Earth's environment and the plants, animals and ecosystems it comprises. http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/earth_day_turns_45 Ever since Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970, the event has adapted to the ... Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:39:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/earth_day_turns_45 2015-04-22T18:39:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/quantum_dots_open_way_for Recently scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of M... Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:41:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/quantum_dots_open_way_for 2014-04-24T19:41:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/lithiumion_batteries_get_a_boost After lithium-ion batteries were introduced to the public in the early 1990s, th... Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:30:11 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/lithiumion_batteries_get_a_boost 2014-02-14T02:30:11Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/save_the_rhinos_but_how If only rhinos were as plentiful in the wild as they are in today's media landsc... Sun, 01 Dec 2013 18:12:43 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/save_the_rhinos_but_how 2013-12-01T18:12:43Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/barcoding_alaska_a_qa_with I n August 2012, Dr. Ellen Jorgensen flew to Alaska's Skolai Valley to pick wild... Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:55:48 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/barcoding_alaska_a_qa_with 2013-09-09T16:55:48Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/4_things_keystone_xl_doesnt For the past five years, the Keystone XL pipeline has been in the news. Since a ... Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:25:24 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/4_things_keystone_xl_doesnt 2013-08-02T19:25:24Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/wooden_batteries_old_fuel_new Although no one knows who struck the first flint, people have been burning wood ... Mon, 01 Jul 2013 03:58:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/wooden_batteries_old_fuel_new 2013-07-01T03:58:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/loud_and_clear_marine_mammals Good conservationists, like all good scientists, know that correlation doesn't m... Thu, 30 May 2013 23:10:05 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/loud_and_clear_marine_mammals 2013-05-30T23:10:05Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/a_moment_in_the_sun Already inspired by botany, solar panels imitate photosynthesizing plants with t... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:28:26 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/a_moment_in_the_sun 2013-04-22T03:28:26Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/clean_coal_gets_a_sponge Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, the combustible, black rock we... Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:23:54 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/clean_coal_gets_a_sponge 2013-03-23T01:23:54Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/species_invaders_low_and_high Lately in the Land of 10,000 Lakes , Minnesota legislators have been heatedly d... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:17:37 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/species_invaders_low_and_high 2013-02-21T02:17:37Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_disposable_dilemma Expendable objects were not innovated recently. Although washi are now linke... Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:35:40 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_disposable_dilemma 2012-11-16T17:35:40Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/leafy_green_power Ever since his debut in the comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1929, Popeye has lo... Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:53:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/leafy_green_power 2012-09-17T01:53:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/coral_reef_relief When it is this hot outside, there really is no place I'd rather be than at th... Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:23:58 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/coral_reef_relief 2012-07-26T17:23:58Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/sos_save_our_seagrass As this year's United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development concluded in... Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:56:03 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/sos_save_our_seagrass 2012-06-24T00:56:03Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/buzz_kill_bee_populations_and A swarm of studies have recently been released concerning Colony Collapse Disor... Tue, 08 May 2012 03:56:36 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/buzz_kill_bee_populations_and 2012-05-08T03:56:36Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/bioplastics_in_bloom When imagining the world without a dependence on petroleum, I tend to think of o... Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:57:29 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/bioplastics_in_bloom 2012-03-23T17:57:29Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/greener_worlds_interview_with_abby In addition to making the world's best cornbread, my friend Abby Hall is also a ... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:59:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/greener_worlds_interview_with_abby 2012-02-07T01:59:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/turning_over_a_new_leaf Autumn's leaves have mostly fallen here in Brooklyn, but nearby at the Massachus... Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:56:35 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/turning_over_a_new_leaf 2011-12-07T04:56:35Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/climate_change_heats_up Every couple of years since 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change... Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:15:02 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/climate_change_heats_up 2011-11-12T21:15:02Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_comeback_cove Great news for conservation is always exciting, so when I read about a remarkabl... Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:26:25 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_comeback_cove 2011-08-23T23:26:25Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/microalgae_the_next_big_thing When German botanist Friderico T. Kützing first described the microalga Botryoc... Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:06:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/microalgae_the_next_big_thing 2011-07-16T03:06:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_fracking_fracas As the demand for new energy sources surges, an emerging technique for extractin... Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:10:18 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_fracking_fracas 2011-07-01T02:10:18Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/desperately_seeking_species Distinguished ninety-something Gálapagos tortoise seeking female companion to ex... Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:33:18 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/desperately_seeking_species 2011-06-15T15:33:18Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/silent_spring Earlier this May, a joint oversight hearing on US pesticide regulation was calle... Fri, 27 May 2011 01:27:57 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/silent_spring 2011-05-27T01:27:57Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/earth_day_past_and_future Spring's in full swing, a perfect time to celebrate our beautiful planet. For w... Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:59:22 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/earth_day_past_and_future 2011-04-23T03:59:22Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/are_we_there_yet_the Three exceptional vehicles from the German manufacturer Mercedez-Benz have recen... Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:15:06 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/are_we_there_yet_the 2011-04-18T14:15:06Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_nuclear_hour Sixteen days ago, a megathrust earthquake ocurred approximately 81 miles (130 ... Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:10:02 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/the_nuclear_hour 2011-03-28T01:10:02Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/fashion_trend_alert_ecochic Nestled along the northeastern banks of China's Pearl River is Xintang, Guangdon... Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:38:52 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/fashion_trend_alert_ecochic 2011-03-13T19:38:52Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/rare_earth_the_new_nonrenewables Green energy today relies on multiple advanced technologies like solar cells, hy... Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:37:00 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/rare_earth_the_new_nonrenewables 2011-03-01T04:37:00Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/2010s_natural_disasters_why_where Las t April, the European air transit system found itself completely gridlocked ... Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:35:42 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/2010s_natural_disasters_why_where 2011-02-14T16:35:42Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/what_we_mean_when_we While I was growing up, I was taught that green was a color. Leaves were green. ... Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:16:46 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/what_we_mean_when_we 2011-02-04T11:16:46Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/greetings_neighbors Welcome to Green Screen , a blog that brings you t he latest news, studies, and... Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:04:36 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/green-screen/greetings_neighbors 2011-01-27T16:04:36Z