Friday, June 27th, 2008
The Bureau of Land Management said it will suspend all new solar energy projects on federal land for the next two years until it completes an environmental impact review. As discussed briefly in the preceding post, the BLM holds the country's most valuable sites in terms of solar energy ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
The language of conservation is getting a much needed overhaul courtesy of an international team of conservationists who are trying to standardize the discipline's language. The project plans to ground the discipline's problems and tools field in a framework of well defined concepts.
The new system applies at every level of ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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Phosphorus improves crop yields when added to fertilizers. The trouble is that phosphorous cannot be artificially produced. It needs to come from the ground. More specifically, it must be extracted from phosphate compounds buried in mines deep under earth. ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
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Scientists are studying obscure, self-sustaining, bacterial communities that live extreme environments. These bacteria have evolved to flourish in conditions previously thought incompatible with life. For instance, "chemoautogrophs" are bacteria that do not depend on light for life.
Humans and most other land-dwelling organisms ultimately get their energy from the Sun, with ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Mercury is toxic when drinking water contains high concentrations of it. The most dangerous form is methylmercury, which arises naturally in mercury contaminination under low oxygen conditions.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Map of Mercury-Contaminated Water in U.S.", url: "http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/306/map-of-mercury-contaminated-water-in-us/" });
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