Green and Just? An Update on the ‘European Green Deal’

An Update on the Health Benefits of Green Tea

Green tea, which is produced from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, is one of the most popular beverages worldwide. Over the past 30 years or more, scientists have studied this plant in respect to potential health benefits. Research has shown that the main components of green tea that are associated with health benefits are the catechins. The four main catechins found in green tea are:...

Global Governance: The G20 and a Global Green New Deal

As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal (GGND) requires a long-term commitment to implementing and coordinating “green investments” by the Group o...

Plant cells are not just green yeast.

Are plant cells just yeast cells with chloroplasts? Should plant cell biologists who don’t work on chloroplasts just switch to yeast to help solve the basic questions that are common to all eukaryotes? The recent completion of the sequencing of the entire yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) genome and the availability of hundreds of well-characterized mutants certainly make this a tempting proposi...

Green Tea: Just a Drink or Nutraceutical

Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk from European green crab invasion

Nonnative species pose a threat to native biodiversity and can have immense impacts on biological communities, altering the function of ecosystems. How much value is at risk from high-impact invasive species, and which parameters determine variation in that value, constitutes critical knowledge for directing both management and research, but it is rarely available. We evaluated the value of the...