Items tagged with Environment

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Obscure Fungus Produces Diesel Components Friday, November 7th, 2008 - 12:02:24 - Anuradha Menon A wild fungus has been found to produce a variety of hydrocarbon components of diesel fuel. The harmless, microscopic fungus, known as Gliocladium... read more

Proof That Humans Cause Polar Warming Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 10:14:09 - Anuradha Menon New research by the University of East Anglia has demonstrated for the first time that human activity is responsible for significant warming in both... read more

Global Warming Kills Yellowstone Amphibians Thursday, October 30th, 2008 - 10:19:20 - Anuradha Menon Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford... read more

3D Virtual Reality Helps Scientists Innovate Friday, September 19th, 2008 - 18:23:40 - Anuradha Menon Its name sounds like something out of science fiction, but the StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego is now a science fact. The... read more

Radioactive Waste No More a Pain in the Ash Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - 16:00:35 - Anuradha Menon A new recycling plant will soon recover uranium from the ashes of radioactive garbage to be recycled back into nuclear fuel using an efficient... read more

Ice Core Reveals Arctic's Pollution History Thursday, August 21st, 2008 - 10:25:09 - Anuradha Menon New research, reported this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that coal burning... read more

Driving using Biomass, As Soon as 2010? Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 - 21:14:19 - Anuradha Menon Turning everyday waste into gasoline may seem like a distant dream, but thanks to researchers with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)... read more

Mass Extinctions and the 'Rise of Slime' Saturday, August 16th, 2008 - 18:02:21 - Anuradha Menon Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world’s oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or... read more

Global Warming May Not Affect Hurricanes Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 - 16:08:08 - Anuradha Menon In a study published in the July 2008 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Drs. David S. Nolan and Eric D. Rappin from the University of Miami’s... read more

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