News tagged with environmental monitors
Environmental index could save rural communities
A new approach to environmental monitoring could avert ruin for some of the world's poorest communities.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Making surveillance cameras more efficient
A University of California, Riverside professor has recently co-authored a book about his surveillance camera research that has applications in everything from homeland security, environmental monitoring and home monitoring.
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Female sex hormones can weaken the ability of fish to protect themselves against environmental toxins
It is well known that female sex hormones (oestrogens) that end up in rivers and lakes, primarily via spillage from sewers and livestock farming, pose a threat to the environment.
Feb 23, 2012 |
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New web tool to improve accuracy of global land cover maps
An interactive web tool has been developed to improve the accuracy and extent of global land use and forest cover information. The new 'Geo-Wiki' uses Google Earth and information provided by a global network of volunteers ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Studying butterfly flight to help build bug-size flying robots
To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how butterflies ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Beijing releases pollution data; US figures higher
(AP) -- Caving to public pressure, Beijing environmental authorities started releasing more detailed air quality data Saturday that may better reflect how bad the Chinese capital's air pollution is. But one ...
Jan 21, 2012 |
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Bowing to pressure, Beijing begins hourly smog data
Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater government transparency over pollution in China's capital.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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An enzyme in fish can demonstrate environmental toxins
The level of the enzyme carbonyl reductase (CBR) is elevated in the livers of fish that have been exposed to cleaned wastewater. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg can show that CBR has properties that may make it ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Bees are good informers
Honeybees can do far more than simply pollinate plants or make honey. The busy creatures also make excellent environmental monitors. This has been demonstrated by Wageningen UR bee researcher Sjef van der Steen. He used ...
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Pocket chemistry: DNA helps glucose meters measure more than sugar
Glucose meters aren't just for diabetics anymore. Thanks to University of Illinois chemists, they can be used as simple, portable, inexpensive meters for a number of target molecules in blood, serum, water ...
Jul 24, 2011 |
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Greener disaster alerts
New software allows wireless sensor networks to run at much lower energy, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Sensor Networks. The technology could improve efficiency for hurricane and other ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Alert after BP oil refinery in US loses power
Residents of a US Gulf town have been told to stay indoors and turn off their air conditioners after power failures at a nearby BP refinery and Dow Chemical plant, officials have said.
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Hydrogels used to make precise new sensor
Researchers are developing a new type of biological and chemical sensor that has few moving parts, is low-cost and yet highly sensitive, sturdy and long-lasting.
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Long-lasting chemicals threaten the environment and human health: study
Every hour, an enormous quantity and variety of manmade chemicals, having reached the end of their useful lifespan, flood into wastewater treatment plants. These large-scale processing facilities, however, ...
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Assessing the environmental effects of tidal turbines
Harnessing the power of ocean tides has long been imagined, but countries are only now putting it into practice. A demonstration project planned for Puget Sound will be the first tidal energy project on the ...
Dec 13, 2010 |
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