News tagged with environmental revolution
French IT company aspires to be email-free within a year
How many work emails do you get a day? 80? 200? 500? More than 1,000?
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Friend and foe: Nitrogen pollution's little-known environmental and human health threats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Billions of people owe their lives to nitrogen fertilizers -- a pillar of the fabled Green Revolution in agriculture that averted global famine in the 20th century -- but few are aware that ...
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Obama unveils historic power grid reform
President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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Today's environment influences behavior generations later: research
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Washington State University have seen an increased reaction to stress in animals whose ancestors were exposed to an environmental compound generations earlier. The findings, ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Coconuts, wind and sun to power Pacific nations
Tiny Pacific nations which are most at threat from rising seas have vowed to dump diesel and other dirty expensive fuels blamed for causing global warming and replace them with clean sources.
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May 10, 2012 |
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Virtual power plants for renewable energies
Siemens recently put two virtual power plants into operation. Virtual power plants are networks of several small power stations that are run like a single system. One of the new virtual power plants enables ...
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Apr 27, 2012 |
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'No-till farming' revolution grows in Indiana
Indiana farmer Mike Starkey does not plow his fields and uses fertilizer only sparingly, but he is on the cutting edge of a growing trend in American agriculture.
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Technology transforms energy outlook
The U.S. energy picture has changed significantly in recent years, with vast, new natural gas supplies coming to market, revived solar and wind power industries, and new extraction techniques opening supplies ...
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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Greening up the blue dye in jeans, police uniforms and the red, white and blue
Efforts are underway to develop a more environmentally friendly process for dyeing denim with indigo, the storied "king of dyes," used to the tune of 50,000 tons annually to color cotton blue jeans and hundreds of other products. ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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NASA's astrobiology research sparks 'GreenTech' revolution
NASA’s astrobiologists study microbial life to understand how it transformed a rocky Earth into the thriving, diverse, life-sustaining planet we inhabit today. These studies of photosynthetic ‘green’ ...
Mar 13, 2012 |
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GPM microwave imager instrument for NASA and JAXA mission arrives at Goddard
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) instrument has arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for integration into NASA's upcoming Earth science ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Developing sustainable power
The invention of a long-lasting incandescent light bulb in the 19th century spurred on the second wave of the industrial revolution, illuminating homes, extending leisure time and bringing us to the point today where many ...
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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Time for a rethink on climate change, say top environmental economists
Governments have done so little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they should consider investing into the Rand D of large scale geo-engineering projects and their governance, according to 26 of the world’s leading ...
Feb 27, 2012 |
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