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October 16, 2008
- DHL Says Small Efficiencies Can Deliver Big Carbon SavingsThe global logistics giant says strategies to shrink carbon footprints should exploit savings and efficiency opportunities in every link of the supply chain, no matter how far flung. - 2 months
source: (GreenBiz.com) - EU to keep "cost-effective" climate plan deadline
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders were set to reaffirm a December deadline for agreeing bold plans to fight climate change but vow to make them cost-effective in view of the financial crisis, a draft statement showed on Thursday.- 2 months
source: ( Reuters: Environment) - Removal Of 'super-polluters' Could Reduce Pollution From Nanoparticles By 25%
If the “super-polluters”, the high-polluting vehicles, such as certain buses and transport trucks in a poor condition, were removed, pollution from nanoparticles could be reduced by up to 25% and 48%, depending on the parameter analyzed. These minute particles may cause serious health problems. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - Mathematicians Put Forward Model For Studying Submarine Avalanches And Tsunamis
A team of Andalucian and French scientists has put forward a mathematical model that enables submarine avalanches and certain types of tsunamis to be studied using equations, according to a recent article in the Journal of Computational Physics. Mathematicians are already applying the model to analyse landslides on the island of Alborón (Almería). - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - New Solar Energy Material Captures Every Color Of The Rainbow
Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture. Chemists combined electrically conductive plastic with metals including molybdenum and titanium to create the hybrid material. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - New Hope For The Red Squirrel
Study says free-living red squirrels are mounting an immune response to the squirrelpox viral disease. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - Ecosystem-level Consequences Of Frog Extinctions
Streams that once sang with the croaks, chirps and ribbits of dozens of frog species have gone silent. They're victims of a fungus that's decimating amphibian populations worldwide. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - Genes Hold Secret Of Survival Of Antarctic 'Antifreeze Fish'
A genetic study of a fish that lives in the icy waters off Antarctica sheds light on the adaptations that enable it to survive in one of the harshest environments on the planet. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - Radiation In Your Backyard...sometimes
Modern nuclear techniques are giving the world's scientists and regulators better tools to fight pollution and other environmental threats -- even those that may be lurking naturally at the beach or near your backyard. Many of the world's top "radioecologists" are in Morocco this week to assess a dynamic picture. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - Substantial Loss Of Carbon, Nitrogen From Burned Soils -- And Connections To Warming Climate
A new study led by the Pacific Northwest Research Station represents the first direct evidence of the toll wildfire can take on forest soil layers. It draws on data from the 2002 Biscuit Fire, which scorched some 500,000 acres in southwest Oregon. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - 'Water Footprint' Promotes Sustainable And Fair Use Of Water Resources
Researchers have proposed the concept of a 'water footprint,' which gives a detailed insight into the water consumption of individuals, companies and countries, in an international effort to promote sustainable, fair and efficient use of water on a global scale. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - High-altitude Climbing Causes Subtle Loss Of Brain Cells And Motor Function, Says Everest And K2 Study
A study of professional mountain climbers has shown that high-altitude exposure can cause subtle white and grey matter changes to the area of the brain involved in motor activity. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks Of First Life
New research suggests that lightening and volcanoes may have sparked early life on Earth. Researchers have reanalyzed Stanley Miller's classic origin of life experiment, offering a new analysis on how the essential building blocks of life may have arose from volcanic eruptions. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - 'Lost' Miller-Urey Experiment Created More Of Life's Building Blocks
A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies, neither of which was published. Vials containing the products from those experiments were recently recovered and reanalyzed using modern technology. The results are reported in this week's Science. - 2 months
source: (ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News) - Shanghai follows Beijing in putting brakes on traffic
BEIJING (Reuters) - Shanghai is to adopt a watered-down version of the capital's traffic restrictions in a bit to clean the air, clear the roads and save energy, state media said.- 2 months
source: ( Reuters: Environment) - Innovation and the city: challenges for the built environment industry (Australian Policy Online)
This report reviews the key drivers of change facing the built environment and analyses the major challenges facing the built environment industry, broadly constituted, in adapting to these drivers. - 2 months
source: (Yahoo! News Search Results for environment) - California releases plan to cut greenhouse gases
AP - To reach its global warming goals, California must cut greenhouse gas emissions by about four tons per person, which would require cleaner cars, more renewable energy and a cap on major polluters, according to a state plan released Wednesday. - 2 months
source: (Yahoo! Green News) - Honeywell turbocharges China
Engine addition could reduce vehicle emissions 20 percent, helping Chinese trucks and engines meet Euro IV standards. - 2 months
source: (Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news) - So Super it’s unreal?
On a showroom floor in India’s westernmost state of Gujarat sits the prototype for a car made at a local production plant and expected to be commercially available early next year.
The non-air conditioned, four-seater model is expected to be priced at Rs. 85,000 to 1 lakh ($1,748 USD to $2,057 USD).
And it’s an electric car, one that’s said to run on either nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.
- 2 months
source: (Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news)
October 15, 2008
- Failed Green Shift may dissuade environment plans (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - It's disconcerting that the Liberals' disastrous showing at the polls and whispered calls for Stephane Dion's resignation may dissuade politicians from putting the environment at the forefront of future election campaigns, renowned scientist and author David Suzuki said Wednesday. - 2 months
source: (Yahoo! News Search Results for environment)