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The Salp: Nature’s Near-Perfect Little Engine Just Got Better

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2010Environmentcarbon containing pellets, feat of bioengineering, food particles, microbial loop, ocean-dwelling salps, particle aggregation, salp, self propelling mechanism

What if trains, planes, and automobiles all were powered simply by the air through which they move? Moreover, what if their exhaust and byproducts helped the environment? (more…)

Moscow Literally Burnt by the Sun

By PravdaAugust 9, 2010Environmentcardiovascular, ecological situation, Germany, italian foreign ministry, moscow, muscovites, rainfalls, russian cities, sergey shoygu, smog, st. petersburg, summer heat, toxic smog, yekaterinburg

Moscow is suffocating. Thick toxic smog has been covering the sky above the city for days. The sun in Moscow looks like the moon during the day: it’s not that bright and yellow, but pale and orange with misty outlines against the smoky sky. Muscovites have to experience both the smog and sweltering heat at once. Today, August 9, the temperature is expected to hit the level of 37-39 degrees above zero Centigrade.

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‘Galapagos’ survived

By ShamsAugust 9, 2010Environment, Naturecharles darwin, endangered places, evolution, galapagos, island, un

The Galapagos Islands are no more ‘in danger’.

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UM Advanced Bio-Filtration System Promises Less Chesapeake Pollution

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2010Environmentallen p davis, anacostia watershed, bio-filtration system, bioretention, bioretention projects, chesapeake bay, comcast center, denitrification, nitrogen, nitrogen removal, office of sustainability, phosphorous, rain gardens, runoff, scott lupin, stormwater, university of maryland, urban pollutants, urban runoff pollution

COLLEGE PARK – Technological advances developed by University of Maryland researchers promise significant reductions in urban runoff polluting the Anacostia watershed and the Chesapeake Bay. The researchers say their work represents the next generation of “low impact development” technologies.

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Global Tropical Forests Threatened by 2100

By Guest PostAugust 6, 20101 commentEnvironmentclimate change projections, forest ecosystems, model projections, tropical drought, tropical forests

Palo Alto, CA — By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology. (more…)

New Study Sheds Light on U.S. Wind Power Market

By Guest PostAugust 5, 20103 commentsEnvironmentelectricity prices, wind energy, wind power, wind power market, wind turbine manufacturers

The U.S. was one of the fastest-growing wind power markets in the world in 2009, second only to China, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (more…)

Rebuilding Missouri Flood Plains, Agriculture, Economy

By Guest PostAugust 3, 2010Economy, Environmentagroforestry, biomass, cottonwoods, flood, gene garrett, hank stelzer, john dwyer, mead-westvaco corporation, missouri farmers, missouri river, mizzou, mo, mu flood lab, new franklin

*Using a flood simulator, MU researchers reveal cottonwood trees as a profitable crop in devastated flood areas*

COLUMBIA, Mo. –When the Missouri River flooded in 1993 and 1995, it left a deep layer of sandy silt that covered thousands of acres of rich farmland. Now, MU forestry researchers may have found a crop that can survive a flood and act as a sustainable source of biomass.

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Ice Core Drilling Effort Involving CU-Boulder Should Help Assess Abrupt Climate Change Risks

By Guest PostAugust 3, 20102 commentsEnvironment, Sciencebedrock, climate change, cu-boulder, dorthe dahl-jensen, eemian, eemian ice drilling project, Germany, greenland, ice cores, ice sheet, interglacial period, j p steffensen, jim white, neem, north greenland, tyler jones, vasilii petrenko

Ice Core Drilling Effort Involving CU-Boulder Should Help Assess Abrupt Climate Change Risks An international science team involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that is working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock July 27 after two summers of work, drilling down more than 1.5 miles in an effort to help assess the risks of abrupt future climate change on Earth.

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