He said the Education Foundation is working with local teachers on classroom pilots to try out startup products in a realistic environment.
The Zumwalt also boasts what Raytheon calls a Total Ship Computing Environment, which allows it to be controlled from any of a couple dozen consoles around the ship.
These are used to reduce energy and water consumption and pollution. Dubai, United arab emirates Although in the early stages yet, Dubai announced plans last year to turn itself into a smart city.
and aims to use smart technologies to reduce they city CO2 EMISSIONS by 40 per cent by 2020.
Robotic sensing technology can only barely identify big, obvious targets in clutter-free environments. For that reason, the open ocean is the first place robots are firing on targets.
In more cluttered environments like the cities where most recent wars have been fought, the sensing becomes less accurate.
which is much larger than the tiny capillaries that exchange nutrients and waste throughout the body.
Blau team found that the environment inside the muscle becomes less conducive for stem cells
the report co-author. he next stage is small-scale deployment of low-speed L5 self-driving vehicles in campus-like environments
optimized for IO-intensive environments, enables rapid, efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg,
Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
Use of cover crops can also help farms survive the droughts expected to become more common in the era of climate change.
#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
and carbon dioxide are driving climate change. Natural carbon sinks like forests and oceans are critical for helping soak up some of these gases.
and in the razor clam's natural environment in the mudflats off the coast of Gloucester, Mass.
After long focusing on fuel economy and energy production environmentalists and scientists are now promoting a diet of more plants and less meat to slow climate change but why?
The scope of animal agriculture s impact on climate change has for decades been underestimated. The raising and slaughtering of farm animals is just one component.
The total process for bringing such vast quantities of meat egg and dairy products to our plates comes at a substantial cost to the environment.
As a result of animal agriculture's impact on climate change organizations like the Natural resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club support eating more plant-based meals.
though mistakenly think leads to a major environmental impact due to the reduced travel miles to transport the food).
As an environmentalist I think our global consumption of meat is far too high. And former George w bush and Sarah Palin speechwriter Matthew Scully is vegan writing in his book Dominion regarding farm animal production
and corporate policy work to be done to address global climate change it's heartening to see leaders
With more people sharing our mutual responsibility to reduce carbon footprints by shifting to plant-based meals we have reason to be hopeful for our planet's future.
I"(for University of Illinois). Systems like this one could lead to adaptive camouflage technology that can be tuned to its environment,
and disappear back into Earth s environment. But bug parts break down in only a year or two.
but work on Shrilk continues in the lab exploring ways to use the material in moist environments (it becomes flexible
In addition, Germany environment ministry is set to support the project with interest subsidies and consultancy for the build as part of its global development policies.
German Environment minister Barbara Hendricks said. ecause it can store energy, this technology is suited also for basic electricity supply and therefore highly innovative.
which is subject to interference from electrical oisefrom nearby devices and the environment. The only alternative technology,
It is therefore able to be deployed in harsh environments such as down a drill hole or inside the cylinder shaft of a car engine,
#Imergy Power systems develops high-performance flow batteries Imergy Power systems has achieved a milestone in energy storage by developing a process for producing high-performance flow batteries with recycled vanadium from mining slag oil field sludge fly ash and other forms of environmental waste.
The technology is also more sustainable for the environment by using an existing waste product with little or no market value.
and complicated chemistry to treat the waste, he said. f required, the treated water can be purified much more efficiently via reverse osmosis
and either released to the environment or recycled back into the plant, so it has huge benefits for mining operators in arid regions such as Australia
and 240-ton mining truck to a large open-pit mining operation in the western United states. The mine recently experienced a series of landslides.
The resulting debris derailed production as the avalanche created numerous hazardous areas where humans could no longer venture.
they may eventually understand their environments better, he said. For example, instead of moving a camera image onto a computer to process it,
or hazardous environment exploration,"Wood said. But before these tiny bots travel into space or other harsh environments, the researchers will need to experiment with stiffer and more-durable materials.
The engineers also said they're looking into the use of materials that can also unfold themselves, something shape-memory polymers,
and scrubs the air of pollutants and excess carbon dioxide, and helps to regulate the planet's climate.
the Silk Leaf could also be used as building material to produce clean air for buildings. Melchiorri has developed even some simple home uses for the material,
and thus help regulate Earth's climate and combat global warming. Deforested land could potentially be offset with buildings
"It makes for a very colorful environment, like working in a disco. We take an approach where we actually make the luminescent active layer itself transparent."
#Billboard sucks in pollution and turns it into purified air Billboards often line busy roads
and highways where there's lots of traffic and by association lots of air pollution. But what if those billboards could be transformed into giant air purifiers scrubbing the air and turning polluted areas into fresh ones?
This new billboard is arguably even better for the environment. It can purify 100000 cubic meters of urban air per day
The billboard's air filtration system is also capable of scrubbing the air of some pretty heavy-duty pollutants such as the dust metal and stone particles common around construction zones.
According to the World Meteorological Association Lima has the highest air pollution levels in all of South america most of it related to transportation and factories.
Hills surrounding the city also trap in the pollution making a bad situation worse. Overall the city pollution levels are triple the maximum recommended by the World health organization.
The billboard works on the basis of simple thermodynamic principles. It makes use of shifts in temperature pressure
Aside from separating pollutants from the air UTEC claims that the technology can also eliminate 99 percent of airborne bacteria.
Researchers also hope that by analyzing the pollutants collected by the billboard they can better understand air circulation around the city.
This could lead to other methods for reducing the accumulation of pollution. If these early prototypes are successful one can imagine similar billboards being erected in urban areas around the world.
Michael Koenig, Honda Smart Home project leader, said that converting DC to AC wastes energy,
of which produces five percent of global CO2 EMISSIONS), and certified lumber was used throughout. Over a year, the house is expected to generate a 2. 6-megawatt-hour surplus (compared to the average home consumption of 13.3 megawatts.
and biofilms with enzymes that catalyze the breakdown of cellulose could be used for the conversion of agricultural waste into biofuels.
"Devices constructed from these materials could adjust to their environments in ways that traditional nonliving materials cannot."
The latest initiative in England that's transforming landfill-bound organic waste and excreta into bio-based fuel?
That is the conversion of waste n this case both locally sourced food waste and human sewage nto a methane-rich biogas.
(or biomethane as they might say across the pond) gas which requires the annual waste of five people to produce according to the operator of the Bristol sewage treatment works GENECO.
A single person annual waste both edible and flushable would fuel the bus for 37 miles.
The annual waste generated by an entire busload of passengers would provide enough fuel for a return trip across Great britain from Land's End in the extreme southwest of England to John O'Groats in the extreme northeast of Scotland.
Roughly 75 million cubic meters of sewage and 35000 metric tons of food waste collected from households along with local grocery stores and food manufacturers is treated annually at Bristol sewage treatment works located in the suburb of Avonmouth.
The facility is capable of producing an estimated 17 million cubic meters of biomethane from this waste each year.
Bio-Bus which boasts CO2 EMISSIONS that are 30 percent less than buses with conventional diesel engines couldn hit the road at a better time.
240 kilograms) designed for ocean depths down to 1000 feet (305 meters) another extreme environment where no one can hear you scream.
As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
and other whiskered animals to develop a new technology that could make devices capable of interfacing with the environment.
as researchers can use Summit to model everything from climate change and weather behavior to materials science and nuclear-weapons performance.
Natural systems, such as Earth's climate, are extremely difficult to model because of their immense complexity.""There is a real importance of having the larger systems,
and clean up nuclear disasters.""By having flexible robots, we're contributing to the next phase of automation.
or 2g connections) the Oneweb network would also give much-needed global emergency and first responder access for natural disasters refugee camps and other humanitarian needs.
instead there are hard data on how much it will cost to treat the asthma cases that are caused by the extra pollution.
what have traditionally been considered intangible benefits such as air pollution property values and recreational space. It plugs right in to the Autocad that many civil engineers use.
and concrete costs but that now can also produce real data on social value pollution health and yes even happiness a
a large machine/small waste treatment plant developed by Janicki Bioenergy (an offshoot of Sedro-Woolley-based Janicki Industries)
The small amount of solid waste that comes out on the other end is no longer poop
Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.
that machine will be able to handle the waste of 100, 000 people and, from that, produce 86,000 liters of clean water on a daily basis while also generating a net 250 kilowatts of electricity.
This subtle trend correlates with climate change in the region, which has warmed by between 0. 3 and 0. 4 degrees Celsius every decade since the 1970s.
and the Enviropig, engineered to produce waste that is less polluting than that of normal pigs.
'As such, the agency will investigate the safety of the'drug'as well as possible environmental impacts if, for example,
president of the Alliance for a Green revolution in Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya, a partnership to promote sustainable agriculture in Africa.
More than 140 nations decided to begin negotiations for the mercury-limiting treaty at a 20 february meeting in Nairobi of the governing council of the United nations environment programme (UNEP.
and positive, surprise,"adds John Munthe, an expert on mercury emissions and international environmental policy at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute in Stockholm.
Mercury is a global pollutant, he notes, and"to solve problems in any country we need a global strategy".
adapted to their environment and evolved to fight disease. Despite previous reports that the German group's Neanderthal samples may have been contaminated with DNA from modern humans1,
The government agencies Environment Canada and Health Canada will use the data to make risk assessments for the materials
The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs (DEFRA) ran a two-year voluntary reporting programme from September 2006,
Anne Mitchell, executive director of the Canadian Institute for Environmental law and Policy in Toronto expects a mandatory scheme to work more effectively than voluntary programmes,
#Rising air pollution clouds climate debate: Nature News Air pollution that is harmful to human health has increased over all populated continents except Europe since 1973, according to an extensive survey.
The results play into a longstanding debate over whether the Earth's skies are dimming
or brightening, how this affects the amount of sunlight reaching the planet's surface and what that means for climate change.
Two studies published in Science in 2005 concluded that a global dimming trend that began in the 1950s has been replaced since 1990 by global brightening1,
2. The likely effect of all that extra solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface would be faster global warming.
and his colleagues based their conclusions on visibility measurements, a good proxy for aerosol pollution, from 3, 250 meteorological stations around the world.
now that air pollution is a serious health risk, "says Wang.""But attempts, such as China's, to regulate air quality have not yet borne fruit."
"Significant questions remain about what these results means for climate change, because soot and different kinds of aerosols can affect cloud formation in very different ways.
meaning that the net effect of aerosol pollution on global temperatures is worryingly uncertain. Another complication is that soot from burning biofuels,
"The issue of global dimming versus global brightening is not just a question of aerosols, "agrees Martin Wild, an atmospheric scientist at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich,
I wanted to found a prize to reflect the new challenges faced by humanity#such as climate change, energy shortages, emerging diseases, clashes of cultures and ideas,
Bawa speculates that other factors may also be contributing to the decline of the fungus#in particular, rising temperatures and less snow in the eastern Himalayas as a result of climate change.
researchers analysed air samples from a six-week hurricane-research mission by NASA in 2010.
"This is clearly a harsh environment.""One of the next challenges is to figure out the role of these organisms,
and after two hurricanes also allowed researchers to study the effects of extreme weather on the atmospheric microbiome.
Fierer says that understanding more about the bacterial ecology of the sky represents an exciting new frontier for natural history."
as is evident from the recovery of readable DNA from long-extinct animals.""The experiment was done 60,000 years ago
a satellite that will monitor natural disasters and measure atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The extra cash will keep it on schedule for launch before April next year.
He adds that he believes South korea should spend its resources on technologies that have the potential to provide a nearer-term impact on carbon emissions and climate change.
But they quickly wear away in harsh environments, such as the insides of power-station turbines, where condensation reduces efficiency.
burning to leave behind only water vapour as waste. It cannot be mined in large amounts, but proponents of a hydrogen economy say that it could be produced in vast quantities from water using excess electricity from wind turbines and solar plants.
keeping carbon emissions from the process low. Despite the drawbacks, says Tsang, the conversion from methanol to hydrogen is worth pursuing:
#Tagged seals help find missing piece in global climate puzzle By tracking the voyages of elephant seals off Antarctica,
and with the help of satellite imaging and undersea sensors, researchers have discovered a long-elusive source for the deep ocean streams of cold water that help to regulate the Earth's climate.
In particular, water samples from an area called the Weddell gyre contain atmospheric pollutants known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS),
The new finding fills a gap in researchers understanding of the Southern ocean s role in global climate,
the resulting changes in cold-water circulation could have important effects on global climate, letting the ocean depths warm
if the cells had encountered two environments and in what order. Voigt says that there is another advantage to this system."
"To manage the environmental impacts well we really need excellent information. Cindy Van Dover, director of the Duke university Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North carolina, has worked on assessments of deep-sea mining impacts.
the shortening does support the idea that the birds are adapting to disturbed environments, as other organisms presumably are.
The White house has argued that energy innovation is not only good for cutting carbon emissions to tame global warming,
The oceanic crust is formed at ridges between tectonic plates, where rising lava meets sea water and cools.
#Wildlife trade meeting endorses DNA TESTING of seized ivory If you go into a bar in Bangkok tonight,
the states party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) took the unprecedented step of granting protection to sharks and various species of tropical timber tree in their final vote today.
Tom Milliken, who works for the wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC, which is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and has been involved heavily in the debates about elephant poaching,
so harder implants that don bend with their surrounding biological environment can easily shift and move to a different area than they were implanted,
On this platform, the researchers reconstructed a large-scale simulation of human brain activity in a 3d virtual reality environment.
Researchers surveying Lake Neuchâtel for evidence of past earthquakes spotted the craters near the lake northwestern shore near the Jura Mountains.
The team was using ship-based sonar to search for sediment that had been disturbed by earthquakes.
The swiss Alps occasionally shake from earthquakes of up to magnitude 6, studies have shown. Scientists are also investigating the risk of earthquake
-and landslide-triggered tsunamis in Alpine lakes. In the past decade researchers have discovered that tsunamis wiped out villages along the shores of both Lake Geneva and Lake Lucerne in the past 1, 500 years.
But instead of ancient quake or tsunami deposits, Reusch and her colleagues stumbled upon an enormous feature they dubbed Chez-le-Bart crater (razy crater. never expected anything like this,
Reusch said. he craters were so interesting that we simply had to take a closer look at this phenomenon,
she added. No one knows for sure how the craters formed, but the pits appear to occasionally spill over, perhaps violently, the researchers reported.
At least one crater directly overlies a major earthquake fault. For instance, water inside Crazy crater is 47 degrees Fahrenheit (8. 4 degrees Celsius),
and pollution particles in the sky left behind by jet aircraftctually are signs of a clandestine government effort to modify the weather.
and designed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Pivac new company, Fastbrick Robotics, recently posted an animated video of Hadrian in action n
Late last year, hi-tech waste management company Bigbelly upgraded two of its waste recycling stations in downtown Manhattan with Wireless internet hubs.
#Smog Harvested from Tower Made into Jewelry A Smog Free Tower that stands 23 feet tall is being built to scrub pollution out of the air in parks and other public outdoor spaces in Rotterdam, The netherlands.
plans to transform the pollution comprised mostly of carbon into rings and cufflinks. Inspired by the idea that diamonds are made of carbon that has been subjected to high pressure,
the company believes that transforming pollution into jewelry will prove desirable to many. Each accessory will be made from scrubbing 35
One tower alone is capable of cleaning 123 million cubic feet of clean air per day.
says he woke up one day obsessed with the idea of pollution. Holding up a bag of pollution particles in this video, he explains that it hard to believe that we accept this pollution as waste
when it can take on other forms. After its Netherlands debut, the company hopes to set up towers in other cities as well, including India, Mexico city and Beijing i
It part of a strategy to access an untapped source of new antibioticshe estimated 99%of microbes in the environment that refuse to grow in laboratories.
#In surprise, Dutch court orders government to do more to fight climate change In a ruling that came as a surprise to many legal experts,
a court in The netherlands today ordered the Dutch government to dramatically intensify its fight against climate change.
The district court in The hague ruled that by 2020, The netherlands must cut CO2 EMISSIONS by 25%from 1990 levels.
The case framed global warming as a human rights violation that the Dutch government must do more to prevent.
The Dutch government did not dispute the international scientific consensus on climate change. The verdict (in Dutch) relies heavily on quotes, tables,
and graphics from reports by the Intergovernmental panel on climate change and other international bodies. The court adopted the growing consensus that drastic reductions in CO2 EMISSIONS are necessary to prevent a temperature rise of more than 2°Ctarting with a reduction between 25%and 40%by 2020.
The government had argued that The netherlands cannot make such major cuts on its own, a line of reasoning that the court did not accept.
That The netherlands is responsible for less than 0. 5%of global greenhouse gas emissions isn a valid argument either
a lawyer, argued that the legal community should become much more active in the fight against climate change,
Purdy for instance advised on a case in which illegal waste incineration had ruined a large chunk of pristine land.
#Spot ET's waste heat for chance to find alien life RATHER than searching for aliens phoning home scientists are looking for signs of the homes themselves.
This article appeared in print under the headline Spot ET's waste heat for chance to find alien lif f
This caused the gold to emit an avalanche of X-rays that bombarded the stone triggering powerful compression waves inside it.
or deforestation he says. And with an open software interface anyone will be able to develop apps that use the imagery.
But it did not yet have an ozone layer to shield the surface from the sun's harshest ultraviolet rays.
if any of these cells would remain viable in that type of environment. Asteroid and comet impacts are ubiquitous in the solar system
Established in the 1960s India's space programme has focused so far on aiding the country's development building satellites to spot potential sources of groundwater and monitor deforestation.
A study published this week suggests a form of natural geoengineering was partially responsible for the red planet's global cooling.
#Dust devils around stars may help planets grow A dusty tornado around a young star could help solve a lingering conundrum:
We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably
#Rover finds first life-friendly environment on Mars Microbes could have lived on Mars . Though we don't know yet
This is probably the only definitively habitable environment that we've described and recorded said David Blake principal investigator for the rover's Chemistry
a non-acidic environment; enough water for microbes to thrive in; and minerals that could act like batteries allowing electrons to flow
More importantly they found calcium sulphate salts which form in non-acidic water. They also found sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide two forms of sulphur that have lost respectively
We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably
. But now that they've found a habitable environment the team will keep the rover in place a
Color IQ also has a positive environmental impact, which earned the company the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U s. Environmental protection agency in October.
000 gallons of toxic solvents and 100 kilograms of toxic cadmium waste in U s. production each year.
As an analogy Weitzner says imagine trying to shape environmental policy without any way of measuring carbon levels in the atmosphere
andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.
The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education the environment global development and population performing arts and philanthropy as well as grants to support disadvantaged communities in the San francisco bay Area.
Such particles could help scientists to track specific molecules produced in the body monitor a tumor s environment
We think we may be able to reveal information about the tumor environment with these kinds of probes
and a company can use that to help set up an environment where everybody s going to succeed.
Bacterial sensorsenvironmental applications for this type of sensor include monitoring the ocean for carbon dioxide levels acidity or pollutants.
Spielberg even sees the technology as a potential tool in military environments. t totally a convenience thing,
the researchers can also project landscapes to simulate an outdoor environment. In test scenarios, the group has flown physical quadrotors over projections of forests,
Toward this end, the researchers will simulate urban environments by creating street view projections of cities,
you can look at the environment from different angles, and what it sees will be quite similar to
Omidshafiei points out that testing such robots in a virtual environment may be the next best thing.
In fact, the sky the limit as far as the types of virtual environments that the new system may project. ith this system,
you can design any environment you want, and can test and prototype your vehicles as if theye fully outdoors,
and validation in the real environment, says Alberto Speranzon, staff research scientist at United technologies Research center,
he says testing autonomous systems in virtual environments could ready such designs for outdoor testing.
and testing in closer-to-reality environments, says Speranzon, who was involved not in the research. t will also enable the testing of decision-making algorithms in very harsh environments that are not readily available to scientists.
For example, with this technology, we could simulate clouds above an environment monitored by a high-flying vehicle
and have the video processing system dealing with semitransparent obstructions
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