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The results of a new scientific investigation indicate that the frequency of wildfires sparked around the world has increased by 400 percent since the 1970s, when appropriate records began being kept. Experts are very curious as to whether this phenomenon is connected to global warming or not.
Wildfires are not b... |
15 September 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Starting from the hypothesis that humankind wants to live better and longer, a Stanford biologist says that scientists need to become more involved in the life of the community. They need to get down from their ivory tower, and become advocates of the results their studies are developing.The meaning of most advanced ... |
12 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States has recently demonstrated that it's possible to detect significant changes affecting ecosystems before they happen. This early detection method could be used to determine which habitats are the most likely to experience ecological catastrophes. University of Wisconsi... |
29 April 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Understanding ecosystems and landscapes is a critical part of ecology, the science of the relationships forming in our environments. Experts with the Purdue University are currently studying ways of using sounds for making more sense of the ecological characteristics of landscapes.Researchers are also seeking to reco... |
2 March 2011
09:26 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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A new scientific analysis, recently published in the journal Nature, concluded that loosing biodiversity in any kind of ecosystem, rises the risks of the transmission of infectious diseases in humans, other animals and plants.Until now, it's been quite difficult to quantify this relationship between the emerging... |
3 January 2011
05:15 GMT |
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A new method that replaces nearly all of the toxic chemicals necessary to make gold nanoparticles has been discovered, thanks to a new study carried out by a University of Missouri research team, led by MU scientist Kattesh Katti, curators' professor of radiology and physics in the School of Medicine and the Col... |
30 November 2010
08:17 GMT |
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Soy-based wood adhesives should replace the currently used petroleum-based glues in the production of plywood and other woods products, thus avoiding the leaching toxic formaldehyde fumes.Everybody knows what tofu is, and if not, here is a simple explanation: tofu is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating soy ... |
30 August 2010
02:46 GMT |
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Researchers have believed for a long time that species adapt, evolve, split, endure or disappear based on interactions with their ecosystems. In other words, the interaction between organisms and their environment, commonly known as ecology, shapes evolution. But many scientists have proposed over the years that the ... |
5 February 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, sightings of the Palouse earthworm (Driloleirus americanus) were so rare, that when the first specimen was seen in 2005, after more than seven years, scientists were convinced that it had not been extinct. Upon hearing that an exemplary had been found, naturalists and ecologists rushed to t... |
2 July 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has debuted a new, green initiative designed as a Cloud-based application labeled Hohm. To understand the new service, users have to think of another project from the Redmond company, namely HealthVault. Essentially, Hohm is designed to be to home energy consumption what HealthVault is to health. Microsoft ... |
24 June 2009
11:44 GMT |
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The citizens of Maryland are discontented by the US Army's constant failure to respect the timetable imposed last year by the Environmental Protection Agency for cleaning up the polluting mess. Although army officials claim they take care of it, they say they're doing it at their own pace. The Pentagon reso... |
17 October 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Ecological vehicles are celebrating the arrival of the youngest member of their family, the HyPower Nissan Almera. Developed by a group of experts from the Sunderland University, it is powered by hydrogen. Actually, it is not a completely new car. The scientist team, led by Dirk Kok of AMAP (the Institute of Aut... |
13 September 2008
05:02 GMT |
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Researchers from Timelink – an environmental design company based in Dubai – have come up with the idea of building these carbon-free cities in order to accommodate people on a surface that covers about 10% of the area they would otherwise need. The term "ziggurat," which comes from the Akkadian lang... |
8 September 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that Microsoft is nothing short of on the leading edge of "green" when it comes down to the strategy implemented to address environmental and sustainability problems. In the Q&A round of his keynote at Convergence 2008, on March 12, Ballmer stated that he consi... |
13 March 2008
11:38 GMT |
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The IT industry has been hit by a new obsession: environmental-friendly products. Every major hardware manufacturer has to design their components in such a way for everyone to see how they love old fellow Earth. Although there are no standard eco-friendly specifications, worldwide manufacturers outline their ecologi... |
26 November 2007
03:03 GMT |
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Do you want to save the planet? Do you want to lead a healthy life in a healthy environment? In this case, you must know that the way you have sex can ruin all these things. The answer: ecological sex!1. Lights off! If all sex magazines tell you to do this, ecological sex rules recommend you to do quite the opposite.... |
20 September 2007
15:36 GMT |
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For those who were never about to rock and don't have a clue what the Wall of Sound was, here's the ultra-short story: the Wall of Sound was Grateful Dead's (tell me you have at least heard of them, please) loudspeaker array with whose help they kept on rocking the entire world. It boasted 26,400W and ... |
21 July 2007
04:04 GMT |
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