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Electricity from the exhaust pipe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:02
| Researchers are working on a thermoelectric generator that converts the heat from car exhaust fumes into electricity. The module feeds the energy into the car’s electronic systems. This cuts fuel consumption and helps reduce the CO2 emissions from motor vehicles. |
Cell Phone Use During Pregnancy Can Seriously Damage Your Baby (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioral problems, according to a study of more than 13,000 children.
Pregnant women using the handsets just two or three times a day was enough to raise the risk of their babies developing hyperactivity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and relationships by the time they reached school age. |
New Zealand Bird Outwits Alien Predators (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| New research led by Dr Melanie Massaro and Dr Jim Briskie at the University of Canterbury, which found that the New Zealand bellbird is capable of changing its nesting behaviour to protect itself from predators, could be good news for island birds around the world at risk of extinction. |
China builds plant to turn coal into barrels of oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| ERDOS, China (Reuters) - With oil prices at historic highs, China is moving full steam ahead with a controversial process to turn its vast coal reserves into barrels of oil.
Known as coal-to-liquid (CTL), the process is reviled by environmentalists who say it causes excessive greenhouse gases.
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A new satellite remote sensing tool for improving agricultural land use observation (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) data indicate that annually 2500 km3 of freshwater are used for agricultural production, which amounts to 70% of the water resources the whole of humanity consumes in a year.
With the global population continuing to grow at a high pace, it is essential to optimize the use of water resources and to increase agricultural production in view of the prospect of having to feed 8 billion humans in 2030. Scientists have for many years been using remote-sensing satellite observations to improve water balance and farming yield assessment on large geographical scales (at the level of irrigated agriculture areas, catchment basins and so on).
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U.K. Committee Supports Personal Carbon Trading (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| A House of Commons committee suggested last week that the U.K. Parliament create a personal carbon-trading scheme for all citizens of the United Kingdom. It was the strongest statement yet by any government in favor of an individual cap-and-trade system for buying and selling greenhouse gas emissions.
Personal carbon trading would provide a set "carbon emissions allowance" to each citizen and establish a national carbon budget.
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Average shoppers are willing to pay a premium for locally produced food (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| New research suggests that the average supermarket shopper is willing to pay a premium price for locally produced foods, providing some farmers an attractive option to enter a niche market that could boost their revenues.
The study also showed that shoppers at farm markets are willing to pay almost twice as much extra as retail grocery shoppers for the same locally produced foods. |
Getting Down and Dirty with a Solar Industry Insider (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| In line with other news posted today on solar industry developments, we bring you the scoop on the state of solar in the U.S. from Mike Hall, CEO of Borrego Solar. Borrego Solar is unique in that they have a particular social focus. In addition to getting homeowners and businesses to go solar, they also help schools and affordable housing projects with their solar needs. |
Last Flight of the Honeybee? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| Dave Hackenberg's bees have been on the road for four days. To reach the almond orchards of California's Central Valley, they pass through the fertile plains of the Mississippi, huge cattle ranches and oilfields in Texas, and the dusty towns of New Mexico on their 2,600-mile journey from Florida. The bees will have seen little of the dramatic landscape, being cooped up in hives stacked four high on the back of trucks. |
U.S. Sets Policy to Protect the Arctic from Industrial Fishing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-04-2008 at 10:01:03
| President Bush today established a U.S. policy halting the expansion of industrial fishing into the Arctic until we have more information. The policy in part states that "the decline of several commercially valuable fish stocks throughout the world's oceans highlights the need for fishing nations to conserve fish stocks and develop management systems that promote fisheries sustainability," and also states that until international agreement for managing Arctic fishing are in place, "...the United States should support international efforts to halt the expansion of commercial fishing activities in the high seas of the Arctic Ocean."
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