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Environment - Nov 26
Marine species in St.Lawrence Estuary endangered by rapid drop in levels of oxygen
Marine species in St.Lawrence Estuary endangered by rapid drop in levels of oxygen
Career - Nov 26
'Workers and Robots': University of Toronto researcher focuses on Amazon's warehouses in new book
'Workers and Robots': University of Toronto researcher focuses on Amazon's warehouses in new book
Life Sciences - Nov 26
Hybrid species like the 'coywolf' could hold clues about human evolutionary history
Hybrid species like the 'coywolf' could hold clues about human evolutionary history
Research Management - Nov 25
State Secretary Hirayama attends Science Europe High-Level Workshop on Research Culture in the European Research Area
State Secretary Hirayama attends Science Europe High-Level Workshop on Research Culture in the European Research Area
Health - Nov 25
Through quilting, PhD candidate accepts her sleeplessness and challenges the 'sleep industrial complex'
Through quilting, PhD candidate accepts her sleeplessness and challenges the 'sleep industrial complex'
Social Sciences - Nov 24
Expert insights: Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' casts Canada as a racial utopia
Expert insights: Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' casts Canada as a racial utopia
Environment - Nov 24
Robust approach needed to reduce risk of disease transmission between humans and wild animals
Robust approach needed to reduce risk of disease transmission between humans and wild animals
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Environment - Economics / Business - 27.07.2010
Environment - Earth Sciences - 27.07.2010
Environment - Physics - 27.07.2010 
New lab to study fuel cell hybrid vehicles
An old laboratory within UCL Mechanical Engineering is set to be converted into a state-of-the-art facility to study fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles.
Environment - 27.07.2010 
Waste chip fat fuels hydrogen economy
Hydrogen has been tipped as a cleaner, greener alternative to fossil fuels. But scientists have struggled to find a way to make it that doesn't consume vast amounts of energy, use up scarce natural resources, or spew out high levels of greenhouse gas.
Health - Environment - 26.07.2010
Environment - Life Sciences - 26.07.2010 
Restoring the UK’s peat bogs as a carbon sink
Working with colleagues from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Open University the researchers will look at how blanket peatlands can be restored in a way that minimises greenhouse gas emissions. Northern-hemisphere peatlands, such as the blanket peatlands of north Wales and the north Pennines, contain three times as much carbon as the Amazon rainforest.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 26.07.2010
Economics / Business - Environment - 25.07.2010
Environment - 25.07.2010
Environment - Chemistry - 25.07.2010
Environment - Architecture - 23.07.2010
Environment - Economics / Business - 22.07.2010
Environment - Life Sciences - 22.07.2010
Health - Environment - 22.07.2010
Economics / Business - Environment - 21.07.2010
Environment - Life Sciences - 21.07.2010 
Your chance to live forever in spider form
A University of Manchester scientist is offering the public the chance to name two new species of spider, which have been fossilised in amber for millions of years.
Environment - Health - 21.07.2010 
Mountain marmots made bigger by climate change
21 July 2010 Mountain marmots made bigger by climate change Longer summers are causing mountain rodents called marmots to grow bigger and be more likely to survive the winter, according to a 33-year study published today (21 July 2010) in Nature.
Economics / Business - Environment - 21.07.2010
Environment - Law - 19.07.2010
Environment - 19.07.2010 
UK climbs to third in global league of green building
A global index to measure the progress of countries towards creating a zero carbon built environment in terms of energy consumption and production has put Norway at the top, with Brazil second and the UK in third place.
Environment - Chemistry - 19.07.2010 
Global grassroots lake science network has roots in Wisconsin
by David Tenenbaum Inspired and led by freshwater scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers eager to understand global ecosystems from end to end are now monitoring a series of buoys in lakes on every continent except Africa.
Environment - 19.07.2010 
Beyond the Spin: Federal Election Discussion Series
With Rudd gone, is the path now clear for the Gillard Government to return a Labor Party or will Abbott pull off a political upset?
Environment - Physics - 19.07.2010
Physics - Environment - 15.07.2010 
Scientists Measure Changing Lake Depths on Titan
PASADENA, Calif.—On Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time, scientists have found compelling evidence for similar lake-level changes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan—the only other place in the solar system seen to have a hydrological cycle with standing liquid on the surface.
Environment - Social Sciences - 14.07.2010
Environment - 14.07.2010
Environment - 14.07.2010 
Film explores attitudes to climate change ‘tipping points’
A provocative new film asks internationally renowned climate experts, global campaigners and environmental activists to assess the value of issuing climate change deadlines, ultimatums and points of no return.
Environment - 13.07.2010
Economics / Business - Environment - 13.07.2010 
The story of invention: event to showcase University of Nottingham research
Groundbreaking inventions born from the intellectual endeavour of researchers at The University of Nottingham will be in the spotlight at a showcase event being held later this week.
Environment - Economics / Business - 13.07.2010
Environment - Mechanical Engineering - 13.07.2010
Economics / Business - Environment - 13.07.2010 
China confronts turning period
If China is to continue its remarkable economic growth it will need to adapt nimbly to huge internal and external changes, according to experts from The Australian National University.
Environment - 12.07.2010
Environment - Earth Sciences - 12.07.2010 
CU researchers listen for whales amid undersea oil clouds
Out of sight, whales cruise the Gulf of Mexico depths - their hidden world threatened by huge clots of drifting oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well.
Economics / Business - Environment - 12.07.2010 
Researchers test green shopping scheme
Experts at The University of Manchester are to assess if ride-sharing could be a key weapon in the fight to make shopping more environmentally friendly.
Economics / Business - Environment - 11.07.2010 
Agents of change
An international summit which aims to give young Muslims the skills, ideas and inspiration to become "agents of change" in their own communities begins in Cambridge this weekend.
Environment - Health - 09.07.2010
Physics - Environment - 09.07.2010 
Superconductor breakthrough could power new advances
The first batch of a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionise the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid has been developed by scientists. Engineers at the University of Cambridge used new techniques to manufacture high-temperature superconducting materials, producing samples that can carry record quantities of electrical current for their type and size.
Economics / Business - Environment - 08.07.2010
Environment - 08.07.2010 
New kids on the block
The negotiating styles of the world's biggest rising powers - China, India and Brazil - could offer important clues about any future challenge they may pose to international stability, a new study suggests. Writing in the book New Powers, University of Cambridge researcher Dr. Amrita Narlikar argues that the negotiation behaviour of these three emerging giants could act as an early warning system for diplomats, enabling countries like the US to better understand and handle them.
Administration - Environment - 08.07.2010
Environment - History / Archeology - 07.07.2010
Environment - Physics - 07.07.2010 
Stanford study: Heat waves could be common in U.S. by 2039
Exceptionally long heat waves and other hot events could become commonplace in the United States in the next 30 years, according to a new study by Stanford University climate scientists.
Environment - 07.07.2010
Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 07.07.2010
History / Archeology - Environment - 06.07.2010 
Philosophies of water and land
We just don't all come from Adam and Eve. We come from the simple dirt that we walk upon. And out spirits, and our Baiame, our makers, it's all interconnected there.
Environment - Economics / Business - 06.07.2010
Environment - Economics / Business - 06.07.2010 
Eco-friendly black cab joins green technologies in Brighton to London rally
Eco-friendly black cab joins green technologies in Brighton to London rally Hybrid electric black cab, all electric superbike and hybrid fuel cell go-cart feature in Eco Rally to raise awareness about low carbon technologies ?
Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.07.2010
Environment - Chemistry - 06.07.2010
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Local action key to meeting UK green energy target, report says
The government needs to focus on local projects and allow a greater role for communities if the UK is to meet its target to produce 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, says a report out today (Tuesday 27 July) by Sussex academics.
The government needs to focus on local projects and allow a greater role for communities if the UK is to meet its target to produce 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, says a report out today (Tuesday 27 July) by Sussex academics.
Beijing Olympics Pollution Clampdown Study Reveals Importance of Climate- Neutral Air Quality Laws
News Release Ramanathan Research Group Nature Geoscience Scripps Homepage ScrippsNews Home Scripps researchers find marked differences between east and south Asian black carbon emissions, enhanced by 2008 games July 27, 2010 By Robert Monroe Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researchers say carefully balanced mitigation of air pollution is necessary to keep greenhouse effects in check after an analysis of east Asian air sampled during and after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
News Release Ramanathan Research Group Nature Geoscience Scripps Homepage ScrippsNews Home Scripps researchers find marked differences between east and south Asian black carbon emissions, enhanced by 2008 games July 27, 2010 By Robert Monroe Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researchers say carefully balanced mitigation of air pollution is necessary to keep greenhouse effects in check after an analysis of east Asian air sampled during and after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
An old laboratory within UCL Mechanical Engineering is set to be converted into a state-of-the-art facility to study fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles.
Hydrogen has been tipped as a cleaner, greener alternative to fossil fuels. But scientists have struggled to find a way to make it that doesn't consume vast amounts of energy, use up scarce natural resources, or spew out high levels of greenhouse gas.
Spread of malaria still a looming problem
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—There are hundreds of millions of new cases of malaria annually, but much of what scientists believe about preventing the spread of malaria in urban settings is mistaken, a new University of Michigan study suggests. Factors such as house construction and use of anti-mosquito coils aren't as important as where someone spends the night, says study co-author Mark Wilson, professor of epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—There are hundreds of millions of new cases of malaria annually, but much of what scientists believe about preventing the spread of malaria in urban settings is mistaken, a new University of Michigan study suggests. Factors such as house construction and use of anti-mosquito coils aren't as important as where someone spends the night, says study co-author Mark Wilson, professor of epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health.
Working with colleagues from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Open University the researchers will look at how blanket peatlands can be restored in a way that minimises greenhouse gas emissions. Northern-hemisphere peatlands, such as the blanket peatlands of north Wales and the north Pennines, contain three times as much carbon as the Amazon rainforest.
Predictions of coal, CO2 production flawed
AUSTIN, Texas — The CO2 emission estimates used for government policy decisions assume unlimited coal and fossil fuel production for the next 100 years, an unrealistic premise which skews climate change models and proposed solutions, according to new research published by Tad Patzek , chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas — The CO2 emission estimates used for government policy decisions assume unlimited coal and fossil fuel production for the next 100 years, an unrealistic premise which skews climate change models and proposed solutions, according to new research published by Tad Patzek , chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin.
Risk of even greater climate change
The impact that emissions have on the climate partly depends on the land carbon cycle, i.e. how carbon dioxide is absorbed by the biosphere.
The impact that emissions have on the climate partly depends on the land carbon cycle, i.e. how carbon dioxide is absorbed by the biosphere.
University of Minnesota to lead initiative on home energy efficiency in cold climates
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (07/23/2010) —A public-private partnership led by University of Minnesota researchers has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to help develo
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (07/23/2010) —A public-private partnership led by University of Minnesota researchers has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to help develo
Center to study community organizations’ role in infant mortality issue
The University of Wisconsin Center for Nonprofits will study the role nonprofit/community-based health and social service organizations played in reducing disparities in infant mortality.
The University of Wisconsin Center for Nonprofits will study the role nonprofit/community-based health and social service organizations played in reducing disparities in infant mortality.
A University of Manchester scientist is offering the public the chance to name two new species of spider, which have been fossilised in amber for millions of years.
21 July 2010 Mountain marmots made bigger by climate change Longer summers are causing mountain rodents called marmots to grow bigger and be more likely to survive the winter, according to a 33-year study published today (21 July 2010) in Nature.
Strauss Center partners with African organization
AUSTIN, Texas — The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin has formed a partnership with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Africa's leading applied policy research institute, it was announced today. The Institute for Security Studies has a reputation as the premier think tank on security issues in Africa.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin has formed a partnership with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Africa's leading applied policy research institute, it was announced today. The Institute for Security Studies has a reputation as the premier think tank on security issues in Africa.
A global index to measure the progress of countries towards creating a zero carbon built environment in terms of energy consumption and production has put Norway at the top, with Brazil second and the UK in third place.
by David Tenenbaum Inspired and led by freshwater scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers eager to understand global ecosystems from end to end are now monitoring a series of buoys in lakes on every continent except Africa.
With Rudd gone, is the path now clear for the Gillard Government to return a Labor Party or will Abbott pull off a political upset?
Research for the world’s climate
The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) is investing in research in the field of energy and environment.
The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) is investing in research in the field of energy and environment.
PASADENA, Calif.—On Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time, scientists have found compelling evidence for similar lake-level changes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan—the only other place in the solar system seen to have a hydrological cycle with standing liquid on the surface.
Politics and social will; key obstacles to a zero emissions reality
As the Federal Government formulates its climate policy, a new analysis released today, shows that political and social will, rather than technical feasibility and cost, are the key obstacles standin
As the Federal Government formulates its climate policy, a new analysis released today, shows that political and social will, rather than technical feasibility and cost, are the key obstacles standin
A provocative new film asks internationally renowned climate experts, global campaigners and environmental activists to assess the value of issuing climate change deadlines, ultimatums and points of no return.
NASA Supporting Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Recovery
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA's Kennedy Space Center is helping with the unprecedented effort to save wildlife from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA's Kennedy Space Center is helping with the unprecedented effort to save wildlife from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Groundbreaking inventions born from the intellectual endeavour of researchers at The University of Nottingham will be in the spotlight at a showcase event being held later this week.
Socolow honored for environmental achievement
Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering , has received the Keystone Award for Leadership in the Environment, which recognizes contributions to solving society's environmental problems.
Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering , has received the Keystone Award for Leadership in the Environment, which recognizes contributions to solving society's environmental problems.
If China is to continue its remarkable economic growth it will need to adapt nimbly to huge internal and external changes, according to experts from The Australian National University.
Faculty brief Congressional staff on carbon sequestration
Two Cornell professors will brief Congressional staff in Washington, DC on carbon sequestration and how it can enhance Earth's environment.
Two Cornell professors will brief Congressional staff in Washington, DC on carbon sequestration and how it can enhance Earth's environment.
Out of sight, whales cruise the Gulf of Mexico depths - their hidden world threatened by huge clots of drifting oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well.
Experts at The University of Manchester are to assess if ride-sharing could be a key weapon in the fight to make shopping more environmentally friendly.
An international summit which aims to give young Muslims the skills, ideas and inspiration to become "agents of change" in their own communities begins in Cambridge this weekend.
The first batch of a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionise the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid has been developed by scientists. Engineers at the University of Cambridge used new techniques to manufacture high-temperature superconducting materials, producing samples that can carry record quantities of electrical current for their type and size.
The negotiating styles of the world's biggest rising powers - China, India and Brazil - could offer important clues about any future challenge they may pose to international stability, a new study suggests. Writing in the book New Powers, University of Cambridge researcher Dr. Amrita Narlikar argues that the negotiation behaviour of these three emerging giants could act as an early warning system for diplomats, enabling countries like the US to better understand and handle them.
Exceptionally long heat waves and other hot events could become commonplace in the United States in the next 30 years, according to a new study by Stanford University climate scientists.
Calling all inland birders: Help monitor nests for signs of oil
As oil washes ashore along the Gulf Coast, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is asking birders to keep an eye on nesting birds - not just near water, but hundreds of miles inland.
As oil washes ashore along the Gulf Coast, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is asking birders to keep an eye on nesting birds - not just near water, but hundreds of miles inland.
We just don't all come from Adam and Eve. We come from the simple dirt that we walk upon. And out spirits, and our Baiame, our makers, it's all interconnected there.
Eco-friendly black cab joins green technologies in Brighton to London rally Hybrid electric black cab, all electric superbike and hybrid fuel cell go-cart feature in Eco Rally to raise awareness about low carbon technologies ?
Lone whales shout to overcome noise pollution
University Park, Pa.
University Park, Pa.
Academics from the University of Melbourne recognised among Australia’s best
A biologist working to protect threatened ecosystems and a physical chemist exploring the applications of quantum materials are both recipients of Australian Laureate Fellowships, administered by the Australian Research Council.
A biologist working to protect threatened ecosystems and a physical chemist exploring the applications of quantum materials are both recipients of Australian Laureate Fellowships, administered by the Australian Research Council.
News in Brief
Environment - Nov 26
Marine species in St.Lawrence Estuary endangered by rapid drop in levels of oxygen
Marine species in St.Lawrence Estuary endangered by rapid drop in levels of oxygen
Career - Nov 26
'Workers and Robots': University of Toronto researcher focuses on Amazon's warehouses in new book
'Workers and Robots': University of Toronto researcher focuses on Amazon's warehouses in new book
Life Sciences - Nov 26
Hybrid species like the 'coywolf' could hold clues about human evolutionary history
Hybrid species like the 'coywolf' could hold clues about human evolutionary history
Research Management - Nov 25
State Secretary Hirayama attends Science Europe High-Level Workshop on Research Culture in the European Research Area
State Secretary Hirayama attends Science Europe High-Level Workshop on Research Culture in the European Research Area
Health - Nov 25
Through quilting, PhD candidate accepts her sleeplessness and challenges the 'sleep industrial complex'
Through quilting, PhD candidate accepts her sleeplessness and challenges the 'sleep industrial complex'
Social Sciences - Nov 24
Expert insights: Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' casts Canada as a racial utopia
Expert insights: Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' casts Canada as a racial utopia
Environment - Nov 24
Robust approach needed to reduce risk of disease transmission between humans and wild animals
Robust approach needed to reduce risk of disease transmission between humans and wild animals