Energy and Environment
Slow-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source.
Tributyltin, a ubiquitous pollutant that has a potent effect on gene activity, could be promoting obesity, according to an article in the December issue of BioScience.
The objective is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of natural resource.
Introduction:
To support the National Water Quality Management Strategy, though the adoption of a package of market-based and regulatory measures including the establishment of appropriate water quality monitoring and catchments management policies and community consultation and awareness.
The COAG (1994), ARMCANZ (1996), ANZECC (1996), NWQMS (1995) refers to a number of approaches to groundwater protection, often expressed in broad terms, the degree to which these have been taken up by States1 is very limited and inconsistent. Moreover, the Guidelines are focused mainly on the broad-scale protection of groundwater quality and make only limited reference to the management of groundwater near contaminated sites or to the remediation of contaminated groundwater.
There is concern among groundwater resource managers that groundwater quality protection is not being adequately addressed at the policy level. Therefore, here some works prepared with the aim of promoting improved protection, and where necessary enhancement, of groundwater quality.
Animals worldwide are threatened by global warming, but Bush tries to deny that fact.
Balikpapan has decided to take its carbon footprint as seriously as " 'til death do you part".
New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth -- global warming actually changes the molecular structure of organic matter in soil.
I'm still on hiatus, but I had to take time to add this to my blog, especially since my old posting on peak oil continues to get enough hits to stay on the most popular list--though it is not as popular as "Old men chasing young women: A good thing."
Today, a daily science news update that I enjoy reading pointed to an upsurge of interest in old-new form of renewable energy: OTEC, or ocean thermal energy conversion.
Findings in several wildlife raids across the globe indicate China's involvement in strengthening illegal activities and hurting conservation goals.
A detailed analysis of black carbon -- the residue of burned organic matter -- in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating global warming predictions.
An inoculation program may just be the answer to the prayers of those seeking to save the Tasmanian devil, Australia's largest marsupial carnivore.
Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated.
An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems.
Here in Arkansas with way above normal cancer rates, the survivors linked to radiation induced cancers ask me to find the source of radiation that caused their cancers. Radioactive fallout from the 1950's nuclear weapons tests in Nevada spread throughout most of the nation, but the hottest spots were in the Midwest and Northwest, according to government projections.
Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and contiguous habitats. This finding can make preservation of important ecological functions possible even in urban and other heavily exploited areas.
The Census of Marine Life is a 10 year science initiative to study our world's oceans. Recent findings from the 4th update include new discoveries in evolution, populations and behavior.
