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Asien zu teuer: Billigkleider bald aus Äthiopien

By Guest PostNovember 13, 2013Economyaddis abeba, aethiopien, anti terror gesetz, asien zu teuer, billigkleider, China, deutsche medien, djibouti, ein neues bangladesch, fahad faisal, human rights watch, ngo gesetz, roten meer, schuhersteller ara

Textilunternehmen entdecken Äthiopien als billiges Produktionsland. Für stabile Rahmenbedingungen sorgt ein repressives Regime.

Die Regierung Äthiopiens lässt Oppositionelle und missliebige Journalisten systematisch misshandeln und foltern. Das schreibt die Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch in einem kürzlich veröffentlichten Bericht. Laut Human Rights Watch sind unter den Gefangenen der Haftanstalt Maekelawi in der Hauptstadt Addis Abeba «Hunderte Oppositionspolitiker, Journalisten, Organisatoren von Protesten und angebliche Unterstützer von ethnischen Aufständen». Ihnen würden der Zugang zu Anwälten verweigert und Wasser und Nahrung entzogen, sie würden geschlagen und an den Handgelenken aufgehängt. (more…)

„Wir haben keine Zeit mehr, nur zu reden“

By Guest PostNovember 11, 2013Environmentbundesregierung, China, cop 19, der co2 emission, der klimawandel, der weltklimarat, Greenpeace, indien, internationale klimakonferenz, ipcc, klimapolitik bei greenpeace, klimaschutz, martin kaiser, Paris, russland, sara westerhaus, spd, us dollar, us praesident obama, warschau

Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zur COP 19

Heute beginnt in Warschau die internationale Klimakonferenz COP 19. Martin Kaiser, Leiter der internationalen Klimapolitik bei Greenpeace, ist selbst in Warschau dabei und beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen.

Online-Redaktion: Klimakonferenzen scheinen meist das zu produzieren, was sie eigentlich verhindern sollen: heiße Luft. Warum ist Greenpeace trotzdem in Warschau? (more…)

Stretchable energy sources

By Guest PostNovember 7, 2013Scienceactive electrodes, bingqing wei, China, cnt, continuous carbon nanotube, donghua university, electrochemical performance, energy management systems, energy storage devices, network, polyvinyl alcohol, shanghai, solid electrolyte, stretchable energy sources, sulfuric acid gel, supercapacitors, tsu wei chou, wss

UD researchers develop stretchable wire-shaped supercapacitor

Advances in flexible and stretchable electronics have prompted researchers to explore ways to create stretchable supercapacitors — robust energy storage devices — to power these and other devices.

Supercapacitors offer significant advantages over common batteries, including the ability to recharge in seconds, exceptionally long life span and high reliability, leading to their incorporation in portable consumer electronics, memory backup devices, hybrid vehicles and even large industrial scale power and energy management systems. (more…)

Adidas und Nike halten an giftigen Chemikalien fest

By Guest PostNovember 3, 2013Environmentadidas, chemie experte, China, chinesische konzern, detox catwalk, giftigen chemikalien, Greenpeace, hazardous chemicals group, ipe, li ning, manfred santen, mensch, mexiko, nike, online plattform, Pakistan, per, pfc, polyfluorierte chemikalien, textilproduktion, umwelt, zdhc, zero discharge

Neuer Greenpeace-Bericht entlarvt die zwei weltweit größten Sportartikelhersteller

Adidas und Nike haben bisher zu wenig unternommen, um wie versprochen bis zum Jahr 2020 auf giftige Chemikalien in ihrer Produktion zu verzichten. Auch der chinesische Konzern Li Ning hat noch keine konkreten Schritte eingeleitet, um bis 2020 schadstofffrei zu produzieren. Dies zeigt eine neue Online-Plattform von Greenpeace, der “Detox-Catwalk“.

Dort werden die 17 Modefirmen, die sich im Rahmen der Detox-Kampagne von Greenpeace zum Gift-Ausstieg bis 2020 verpflichtet haben, in die Kategorien „Trendsetter“, „Greenwasher“ und „Schlusslichter“ unterteilt. „Vor zwei Jahren waren Adidas und Nike noch Detox-Vorreiter, haben dann aber den Worten keine Taten folgen lassen. Gerade Adidas macht weiter wie bisher, anstatt konkrete Maßnahmen hin zu einer sauberen und transparenten Textilproduktion zu beginnen“, sagt Manfred Santen, Chemie-Experte von Greenpeace. (more…)

Habitat research methods give a new peek at tiger life with conservation

By Guest PostOctober 28, 2013Naturebhim gurung, biodiversity, China, chitwan national park, conservation, habitat research, himalayan lowlands, human population, jianguo jack liu, michigan state university, neil carter, nepal, nepal tiger trust, panda, protected area, sustainability, systems integration, tiger habitat, tiger life

Twelve years ago, a team led by Jianguo “Jack” Liu at Michigan State University showed that China needed to revisit how it was protecting its pandas. Now research on tiger habitat in Nepal, published in Ecosphere journal of the Ecological Society of America, again shows that conservation demands not only good policy, but also monitoring even years down the road.

“Understanding long-term outcomes of conservation programs is crucial and requires innovative methods,” Liu said. “Now we’re learning that Nepal’s outstanding efforts to protect tigers are best supported with close monitoring because conservation situations are so dynamic. In both cases, the key is to understand how the people who live near the valued wildlife are faring as well.” (more…)

Seeing in the Dark

By Guest PostOctober 19, 2013Natureaquatic habitat, aran mooney, baiji river dolphin, China, chinese academy, chinese radiologist, computed tomography, ct scans, darlene ketten, dolphin, hydrobiology in wuhan, marine mammal, noisy environment, porpoise, representative species, sciences, seeing in dark, three gorges dam, toothed whales, whoi, yangtze finless porpoise

New research sheds light on how porpoises hear in one of the world’s busiest rivers

The Yangtze finless porpoise, which inhabits the high-traffic waters near the Three Gorges Dam in China, is highly endangered, with only about 1,000 animals alive today. Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their Chinese colleagues are using medical technology to shed new light on this species’ critical sense of hearing in a waterway punctuated by constant shipping, dredging, and underwater construction.

“We want to understand how they may be impacted by noise,” said Aran Mooney, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and a lead author on the study published online this week in the Journal of Experimental Biology. (more…)

On the Road to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2013Sciencealexei fedorov, berkeley lab, bi2se3, bismuth strontium, calcium copper oxide, China, decoherence problem, Environment, eryin wang, fault tolerant, hao ding, high temperature superconductivity, majorana zero mode, mysterious quasiparticle, quantum computing, quantum data bit, qubit, shuyun zhou, supercomputer, topological surface state, tsinghua university, xi chen, xray photons

Collaboration at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source Induces High Temperature Superconductivity in a Toplogical Insulator

Reliable quantum computing would make it possible to solve certain types of extremely complex technological problems millions of times faster than today’s most powerful supercomputers. Other types of problems that quantum computing could tackle would not even be feasible with today’s fastest machines. The key word is “reliable.” If the enormous potential of quantum computing is to be fully realized, scientists must learn to create “fault-tolerant” quantum computers. A small but important step toward this goal has been achieved by an international collaboration of researchers from China’s Tsinghua University and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). (more…)

New Results from Daya Bay – Tracking the Disappearance of Ghostlike Neutrinos

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2013Scienceacrylic vessel, antineutrinos, Beijing, berkeley lab, beta beams, China, daya bay, daya bay collaboration, disappearance, electron, electron neutrinos, evolution of universe, ghostlike neutrinos, hong kong, jim siegrist, kam biu luk, kamland, ling ao, liquid holding, mass hierarchy, mass splitting, millions of quadrillions, minos, muon, neutrino energy, neutrino oscillations, south dakota, steve kettell, super beams, tau, universe

Daya Bay neutrino experiment releases high-precision measurement of subatomic shape shifting and new result on differences among neutrino masses

The international Daya Bay Collaboration has announced new results about the transformations of neutrinos – elusive, ghostlike particles that carry invaluable clues about the makeup of the early universe. The latest findings include the collaboration’s first data on how neutrino oscillation – in which neutrinos mix and change into other “flavors,” or types, as they travel – varies with neutrino energy, allowing the measurement of a key difference in neutrino masses known as mass splitting.

“Understanding the subtle details of neutrino oscillations and other properties of these shape-shifting particles may help resolve some of the deepest mysteries of our universe,” said Jim Siegrist, Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the primary funder of U.S. participation in Daya Bay. (more…)

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