Friday, October 24th, 2008
Biofuels may not be as bad as many of its critics believed.
Speculators were the principal cause for the rise in corn prices during the summer months, according to a new report by Global Insight, a Boston, Mass.-based consulting firm. In other words, biofuels are not to blame.
"The record high prices ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
The smoke created by burning wood or similar forms of biomass contains tiny particles that penetrate many of the most sensitive regions of a person's lungs. Long term exposure to those particles can cause acute lower respiratory disease, pulmonary disease, cancers and other illnesses. These dangerous air-borne particles are frequently ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
The Boreal forests sit in the extreme northern regions of the world and have migrated across the continents over the course of several millennia. During the same time period, the vegetation in the forests has also changed. NASA used paleoclimatological data gathered from everything from fossilized trees ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
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Land Where Maize Crops Can Be Grown
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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NASA generated this image from satellite data to show the amount of carbon consumed by plants in the United States through photosynthesis during the period March 26 - April 10, 2000. The map indicates how much carbon was absorbed out of the atmosphere and fixed within ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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Ranchers have used GPS technology to monitor cattle movements and location for years, but Daniela Rus, an MIT scientist and 2002 MacArthur Fellow, has set the stage for a revolution in animal husbandry by designing a new device similar to a headset that "whispers" wireless commands to cows (and potentially ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
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Biocapacity measures how biologically productive the world's croplands, pastures, forests and fisheries are. The ‘global hectare,' which equals the average biocapacity of all land in the world, is the basic unit of biocapacity. The more global hectares a particular piece of land is the more biocapacity it has. Brazil ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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The largest biodeisel refinery in the United States started production today. The new refinery, owned and operated by GreenHunter Energy, will produce 105 million gallons per year (mgpy) of biodiesel, which is about five gallons more than the Imperium Renewables biodiesel refinery in Washington.
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