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A new plan seeking to exploit unconventional resources is focused on growing microscopical organisms capable of processing CO2 to provide a wide range of bio-materials. The research is currently carried out by experts from RWE Power, working in partnership with the staff from BRAIN, a biotechnology company, Busines... |
6 January 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Deforestation could become a distant memory of our irresponsible past if the governments succeed in scaling up their efforts to preserve forests all across the globe, according to the recent Living Forests Report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In order to contribute to the recovery of large surfaces cov... |
28 November 2011
06:33 GMT |
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Pope Benedict XVI encourages a “responsible” agreement as a result of the Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa. While representatives from all parts of the Globe will try to find appropriate ways of curbing the alarming amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Pope hopes to witness effective ch... |
28 November 2011
05:54 GMT |
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An anti-pressure group has issued a report highlighting that wealthy nations are trying to “bully” developing countries on the matter of climate change. As the Durban summit is expected to provide efficient measures to monitor and control climate change, recent information suggests that the world's... |
28 November 2011
03:43 GMT |
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For about 130 years, noctilucent clouds have been investigated by researchers around the world, who were trying to make more sense of these peculiar structures. New data are now starting to change the way we understand the formation of such interesting clouds. They are called noctilucent because they shine in the nig... |
19 April 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Many people believe that our species began putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when the Industrial Revolution emerged, but the truth is that we have been doing this for 8,000 years. Experts say that we started affected the environment long before the invention of the steam engine, and other machines that used ... |
30 March 2011
10:41 GMT |
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In an new analysis, carried out by an international group of scientists, the main factors that influenced the European climate over the past 500 years or so were identified and cataloged. It was determined that volcanic eruptions, solar activity patterns and greenhouse gas emissions were the most important influences... |
20 January 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A new study says that over the past century, the amount of dust covering our planet has doubled, and this extreme increase is leaving its mark on the climate and ecology worldwide.Natalie Mahowald, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, and leader of the study, used all available... |
6 January 2011
09:33 GMT |
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Antarctica, the Arctic and Greenland play critical roles in determining the overall evolution of Earth's climate, say researchers, and this is why studying them in great detail could also provide hints for the future, in addition to helping augment existing climate models.The ice sheets and glaciers covering the... |
29 December 2010
04:48 GMT |
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Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Colorado, carried out a study that suggests that when the Sun's activity declines, the Earth actually become warmer and not cooler, as you would normally expect.The activity of the Sun increases and decrease during an 11-year cycle, and when the sola... |
7 October 2010
10:10 GMT |
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According to a new set of scientific observations, it would appear that big, prehistoric mammals lived in the Iberian Peninsula more than 150,000 years ago.The new data shows that, even if in small numbers, these beasts roamed the landscape in what is now Portugal and Spain. The species include woolly mammoths, wooll... |
7 September 2010
09:42 GMT |
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The Isle of Wight is one of the richest places on Earth when it comes to dinosaur fossils and a new study revealed that it was fires and floods some 130 million years ago that made this place so “popular”. When dinosaurs lived and walked the earth, the climate was much warmer than today and on the Isle o... |
24 August 2010
10:01 GMT |
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When most people see clouds, they only search for patterns, maybe in the shape of a dog, baby or building. But some experts look up in the sky and see a possible direction for our planet's future. As the world gets warmer, more and more water vapor will make its way into the atmosphere, which is a very dangerous... |
10 August 2010
03:42 GMT |
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Finding life on another planet would undoubtedly represent the start of a new era for our civilization. Regardless if it's just a simple microorganism, or a highly-advanced creature, an alien would change the way we look at the Universe, and would force many to change their conceptions about how the Cosmos works... |
3 June 2010
10:00 GMT |
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that water once existed on the surface of the Red Planet. Extensive analysis from rovers, landers and orbiters has made that abundantly clear. But while experts agree on that, they continue to debate on whether the planet was a warm world, or if the freezing temperatures it curr... |
1 June 2010
09:06 GMT |
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It's commonly accepted that ivy destroys walls. This idea has been passed on from generation to generation, perhaps through books dealing with the old days, and from parents to children. However, a new study from the Oxford University demonstrates that this is not true. Just the opposite, researchers here say. I... |
17 May 2010
10:00 GMT |
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Banded iron formations (BIF) is the name geologists gave to strikingly banded rock formations that existed around the world and that had been formed between 3.8 and 1.7 billion years ago. Their external appearance and inner composition hint at the history of the planet's climate as it was about two billion years... |
12 October 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Apple is the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber’s strident criticism of plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the US. Three large companies made the same move in recent weeks for the same reason, according to a report over at The New York Times. Acco... |
6 October 2009
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El Nino and La Nina are two atmospheric phenomena in the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and represent global atmosphere-ocean connections. They occur periodically, and cause significant temperature fluctuations in the oceanic waters. Recently, meteorologists estimated that El Nino could begin its development the next... |
5 June 2009
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According to an international study, published on Tuesday by French researchers, the massive ice cap at Mars' north pole is over 95 percent pure, and is thus made mostly of water. The news came as a shock to many people, because the implications of this are far-reaching. Biologists know that, wherever there is w... |
21 January 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The "breathing" cycle of the Earth's atmosphere is not a new phenomenon, nor is it the way it appears. But, in the light of the latest research, there is some novelty – and indeed a large amount of it – related to the rate at which it occurs. Previous theories claimed that our atmosphere breathes onc... |
17 December 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Planet climate engineering is a topic that draws more and more attention as of late, since the environment seems to be marching on an abrupt downward road, and none of the highly-praised latest eco-repairing solutions seems to actually change anything for the better. A lot of pollution combatants have emerged on the... |
3 October 2008
10:01 GMT |
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An adviser from the Australian government who is involved in climate change matters asks people to let go of their beef and lamb-based meals and shift to kangaroo meat consumption if they want to help saving the planet.Economist Ross Garnaut based his 600-page studies on the fact that cattle and sheep have reached wo... |
2 October 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Canadian researchers from the University of Calgary have come up with a new device which captures the carbon dioxide from the surrounding atmosphere. The machine is built from materials that don't belong to the high-tech, but rather to the “near-commercial” technology.David Keith, Canada Research Cha... |
1 October 2008
06:03 GMT |
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Instead of the expected effect of reducing overall warmth, recent reports indicate that the decrease of the solar radiation received by Earth actually raises the level of global warming. All of us, especially people in regions with a temperate climate, have felt the changes in the weather in the past years. It ... |
11 September 2008
07:29 GMT |
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According to a new study led by biologists from the University of Pennsylvania, tree leaves maintain a constant temperature during photosynthesis, regardless of the latitude they inhabit. Researchers used to believe that the temperature of a leaf while converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into nutrients would equal... |
12 June 2008
10:40 GMT |
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Amongst some of the first images sent back by the Phoenix Mars Lander in the outcome of its landing on the surface of Mars on the evening of last Sunday lies this particular one, showing the now famous polygon patterns characteristic to the north polar plains of the Red Planet. In a previous article I wrote that NASA... |
27 May 2008
09:41 GMT |
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The seriousness of global warming has also reached Google's Google Earth application. The downloadable mapping application, which has been designed to offer satellite imagery of Earth, has just received two KLM layers, which can help users better understand how climate change will affect our planet and its peopl... |
19 May 2008
08:09 GMT |
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Due to its semi-Central European location, Slovenia is easily accessible via a variety of transport means, most notably by air or by car. The capital city of Ljubljana is linked to most European capitals (among which Frankfurt, Vienna, Brussels, Paris, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Istanbul... |
21 April 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Google Earth has always surprised us with the innovative functions implemented in it and it seems like the mapping solution will keep up the good work for a long time from now on. Although it doesn't belong to the folks working at the Mountain View company, a new database is now available on the web, allowing Go... |
25 March 2008
06:25 GMT |
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We have taught ourselves to believe that all the planets have roughly circular orbits around stars and have changed much over the years, but the truth is far from this presumption. Planets, like all bodies in the universe have highly elliptical orbits, where the 'central' orbited body is situated in one of ... |
11 February 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Google gets involved into all kinds of campaigns and some time ago, it announced that the search giant fights to save energy in order to reduce the climate change. This is quite a commendable attempt started by Google and it's obvious the Mountain View company needs help to reach its final goals. In the past, it... |
10 August 2007
03:50 GMT |
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AMD just released is annual "Global Climate Protection Plan", in which the processor manufacturer underlines its work to reduce the power consumption and the development of additional power saving techniques that could be implemented in its processors. This trend to enable hardware power saving technologies inside AM... |
26 July 2007
08:28 GMT |
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The race to find new alternative energy sources is fully underway and some cities and even countries are seriously involved in the issue of cleaning up the air we breathe. In order to avoid being caught by surprise by the upcoming fossil fuel shortage, some people want to switch to ecological ways of producing elect... |
17 July 2007
11:26 GMT |
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Like the growth rings in a tree, the ice layers in a polar sheath records climate variations along the years. In 2004 a team led by Jean Jouzel of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, got an ice core from a drill hole in the center of Antarctica recording Earth's... |
6 July 2007
02:46 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo debuted a new campaign entitled "Be a Better Planet" that has some interesting prizes for the winners of the competition. Basically, the campaign is meant to fight for the protection of the nature and the climate but it is entirely based on the solutions powered by Yahoo. Let me present yo... |
15 May 2007
03:50 GMT |
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