A recent heart study specific to coronary artery calcification (CAC) suggests that city center pollution doubles vascular calcium build-up risk and thus raises the incidence of heart disease in major Danish cities.
Residents of city centers who participated in this...
Researchers at the University of Albany have studied the effect of wind farms on local climate over a region of Texas that's home to over 2,350 wind turbines. Their results showed an increase in temperature of 0.72 degrees in...
Researchers have so far bent over backwards to find the best way to make solar cells as efficient as possible and just when you thought this is it – this one's the best, here comes another one, claiming the...
A new climate-monitoring satellite is being designed by Europe’s leading aerospace company Astrium. CarbonSat, the new greenhouse gases trailer, is being prepared for the European Space Agency (ESA). The project is expected to continue over a span of another...
Some would say it's a long shot, some that it's pure science fiction, but the challenge is on: mining asteroids for water, platinum, nickel and iron has never seemed more real than now! The initiative belongs to Google founders...
First, they looked at cars to reduce fuel usage. Then they looked at airplanes. Next thing you know, they've taken to the sea to make some overconsumption cuts! The Wind Challenger Project from the University of Tokyo has returned...
The HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) airborne campaign set out a campaign to see where greenhouse gases come from and where are they stored in our planet's system.
So they flew specially instrumented aircraft over the Pacific Ocean from nearly pole...
Polls are often the only way to see the health, normality or sickness of a population's mindset when it comes to topics like religion, beliefs, political views or even global warming. But sometimes polls just bring out the naked...
Usually I look for and read stuff related to alternative energy, electric cars, things that aren't that obtrusive to the environment and that don't harm our children and our planet's future health. I have never thought for one second...
Digital cameras have had such tremendous success since their invention that anyone with a cellphone (even the cheapest ones) or a laptop has them embedded - they're like the buttons on a shirt. Ikea is now celebrating digital cameras...
