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Tag: footprint

The carbon footprints of various sandwiches [study]

May 23, 2019 Martin Gardiner

There’s a chance (as yet unquantified) that you’re eating a sandwich as you read this. If so, you might pause to consider its carbon footprint  – which, it turns out, is likely to be content-dependent. That’s one of the findings of a 2018 study from Dr Namy Espinoza-Orias and Professor Adisa Azapagic of the Sustainable Industrial Systems […]

Research Newscarbon, Food, footprint, sandwich

Could stegosaurs swim?

September 8, 2015 Martin Gardiner

You might think, as many might have, that by virtue of the characteristic rows of heavy plates along their back and the spiny terminations of their tail, stegosaurs (and other armoured osteoderms) probably would have encountered considerable problems if they attempted to swim. Or did they? A new paper in PYGS : Proceedings of the […]

Research Newsdinosaur, feet, footprint, Geology, swimming
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