Posts Tagged environment

NASA and the Environment: 10 Eco-Projects They’re Involved In

Posted by Mila Luleva in Green News on April 3, 2013

With climate change becoming one of the most widely discussed and pressing problems in recent years, protecting and caring about the environment has become the main goal of many major organizations and governmental agencies. One such agency is NASA. Opposite to common beliefs that exploration of the Earth surface is their main aim, NASA has [...]

Technology to Clean Oceans of Plastic Debris Developed by Student

Posted by Mike Sandru in Pollution on March 26, 2013

Boyan Slat, a 19-year-old Aerospace Engineering student at TU Delft designed a device that could clean the ocean from plastic trash. The concept called Ocean Cleanup Array, combines long floating booms with processing platforms,which can collect and separate trash. Plastics are one of the main ocean pollutants, adding tones of harmful chemicals every year and [...]

The Impact of the Ozone Hole on the Environment

Posted by Mila Luleva in Climate Change, Green News, Pollution on February 5, 2013

Carbon dioxide already released into the atmosphere will have influence on temperatures and climate patterns for many years to come, even if emissions are brought down to zero right this moment. The perfect example for this is the ozone hole over Antarctica. Although the problem that caused it seemed small at first, the consequences are [...]

Regulating Geo-engineering Measures Against Climate Change

Posted by Mila Luleva in Climate Change on December 22, 2012

Over the past decades, climate change is increasingly becoming present at almost every agenda list of most global political and environmental meetings. Unfortunately, policymakers and politicians somehow fail to agree on a common strategy, while the impact is becoming stronger and more visible. Scientists have decided to take the matter in their hands by introducing [...]

Environmental Performance Affected by Ethnicity and Religion, Study Claims

Posted by Mila Luleva in Climate Change, Green News on December 21, 2012

Research at University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that countries with diverse ethnicity or religion do not try to improve their environmental performance. In addition, the lead author of the study, Dr Elissaios Papyrakis, a senior lecturer in UEA’s School of International Development and a senior researcher at Vrije Universiteit, in Holland, claims that [...]

Infographic: Public Transportation is Better for Your Health and the Environment!

Posted by Benji Jerew in Green News on November 2, 2012

When considering your daily commute, have you ever gone beyond the financial or environmental aspect of your choices? We already know that taking public transportation eliminates carbon-dioxide from the atmosphere and that it saves nearly $10,000 a year for the average American. The cost savings could be way more when you consider the health benefits [...]

Top 10 “Save the Environment” Ideas

Posted by Mila Luleva in Green News on October 21, 2012

It is a very well-known, sometimes even unfortunate, fact that people who care about nature and the environment, are considered let’s say different. Thankfully, in the last few years we notice an increasing tendency towards taking better care and protecting the beauty and state of what surround us in our day-to-day activities. To help those, [...]

Could Synthetic Microbes Clean up the Environment?

Posted by Benji Jerew in Pollution on October 9, 2012

Natural resources are not always renewable, petroleum for example. Raw petroleum can be refined into at least twenty different commodities, including gasoline, diesel fuel, paraffin, sulfur, propane, and petrochemicals, which are further refined to produce commodities such as polyester, polyethylene, and polyvinyl chloride, among others. The chemical industry, in light of depleting natural resources, needs [...]

Paper Assesses Energy Development’s Impact on Wildlife

Posted by Janina Lazo in Energy news on October 1, 2012

Scientists from Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources, George Wittemyer and Joseph Northrup, have published a paper assessing the impact of booming energy development on wildlife and proposing mitigation strategies and a more collaborative research to achieve a thorough understanding between the energy technology and wildlife. In their research paper entitled, “Characterizing the [...]

Research Shows How Trees Adapt to Sequester Carbon Efficiently Even in Low Light Conditions

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green News on November 16, 2011

A team of Czech researchers have recently published a paper that shows how forests adapt to various lighting scenarios and how those plants living inside dense canopies in jungles succeed increasing their carbon intake even in cloudy conditions. The paper has been published in the British Ecological Society’s Functional Ecology. Although one would normally think [...]

Nuclear Power Surpassed By Renewables In 2011

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on July 7, 2011

While some political forces in the U.S. still press for funding more nuclear power more, renewable energy production has exceeded nuclear during the first three months of 2011.

Ratio Between Black Carbon and Sulphates in Atmosphere Crucial to Global Warming

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Climate Change on July 30, 2010

Black carbons are emitted from diesel exhausts and burned biomass and are considered an environmental and health hazard all over the world. Besides the fact that they favor global dimming, black carbons also attract heat.

Research: Postponing 5 O'Clock Tea By 1 Hour Could Offer Huge CO2 Savings

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green News on June 27, 2010

You surely remember how it’s like in winter: you wake up, it’s dark, you turn the lights on. When you go to work, there’s finally more light, but when you return at around 5, say, it’s dark again, and you feel like you’ve been missing the whole day. But that’s not the point. The idea is that you consume much more electricity and resources if your schedule doesn’t match the daylight.

New Enzyme Allows Plants to Consume More CO2 and Save Water

Posted by Mike Sandru in Climate Change, Experiments on December 18, 2009

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have discovered new plant enzymes that can allow plants to save water while consuming more CO2 from the atmosphere. The enzyme causes the plants to react to CO2 and change how they use their pores and by modifying the enzyme, scientists believe that could be developed more CO2- and drought-tolerant crops.

E85 Ethanol Increases Pollution and Risk of Human Diseases

Posted by Cristi in Ethanol on December 16, 2009

Researches from Stanford University have recently published a study on ethanol fuel and its influence over human health. Compared to pure gasoline usage, ethanol increases health problems because of cancer-chemical formation.