- We often read that if everyone lived like we do in the UK, we’d need three more planets earths. Good news – we just found another planet earth, and it’s three times bigger than ours – result! Well, maybe.
- When you’ve read that, see if it follows Martin Robbins’ entertaining suggestion that science news articles follow a certain formula.
- Doing their bit to raise demand for that extra planet, a new global warming themed amusement park opened this week in the Emirates. It’s called Ice Land, it’s in the desert, and it’s full of robotic penguins.
- And speaking of ice, what will the Arctic look like in 2050? Full of boom towns, according to this estimate.
The Earthbound Report 
Great topic here.
Work of many people on this issue of plastic, there are several plastic materials recycling organic-based view. In February, for example, Imperial College London and bioceramic drug polymer biodegradable plastic from sugar derived from the decay of lignocellulosic biomass. There is also an existing plant more corn starch and plastics based on paper, including household goods and food packaging, bioplastics toys, plastic dynamic Cereplast. Metabolix also several lines of plastic products from corn, in cooperation with partner companies.