The global PV market has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to renewable energy targets and CO2 EMISSION controls.
they were carbonized in the Mount vesuvius volcanic eruption of A d. 79 and later discovered as charred clumps in the Villa of the Papyri in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum beginning in 1752.
#Volcanic eruption on Cape verde Island A team from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is currently conducting research to support local partners
and Information system) the GFZ has started to observe the volcano eruption and to provide support on data acquisition and interpretation.
Thomas Walter. On one hand we are analysing data from the newest remote sensing satellites to develop models of the magma ascent path.
The satellite data which is acquired by the European space agency's Sentinel-1 satellite enables the measurement of ground movements associated with the volcano eruption.
and following the path of the magma from depth to its point of eruption. As a result the location of the ascent paths at depth explains well why the eruption site is off-centered with respect to the volcano summit.
which allows for regular updates on the ground movement and the magma ascent path beneath.
The magma's eruption rate has decreased but concerns have arisen about a recent increase of the explosive character of the eruption and related ash dispersion.
What Kerkhof is optimistic about is the potential for these bacteria to mitigate the specific groundwater pollution problem in Rifle.
#Risk of hepatitis E outbreak'very high'in earthquake-ravaged Nepal During the coming monsoon season, survivors of the recent earthquake that destroyed parts of Nepal face a"very high
which is primarily spread from feces to mouth via contaminated water. The researchers say that 500 pregnant women could die from the virus in the coming months
"Earthquake-affected areas are faced with a'perfect storm'of risk factors: large displaced populations with limited access to clean drinking water, lack of sanitary facilities, the approaching monsoon, overburdened healthcare infrastructure, large amounts of circulating HEV,
a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. As an alternative, scientists have been trying to develop a cheap and efficient way to extract pure hydrogen from water.
'green'approach that substantially reduces both cost and environmental impact.""Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts,
as well as their interactions with environmental cues. One canonical example is the ABE fermentation by Clostridium acetobutylicum, during
and environmental cues during clostridial ABE fermentation,"Lu said.""It also provides a quantitative tool for generating new hypotheses
#First-of-its-kind tornado panels installed in Montgomery Home in June, UAB's tornado panels designed to protect against flying debris were installed as an integral component of a safe room in a new construction home in the Montgomery, Alabama area.
Uday Vaidya, Ph d.,professor and chair of UAB's Department of Materials science and engineering, worked with Storm Resistant Systems
The UAB panels were approved by the National Storm Shelter Association to hold up against an EF5 tornado."
"This installation comes after four years of research, testing, approvals and manufacturing, following the 2011 Alabama tornado outbreak.
we saw had a lot of applications for tornado-related activities, "Vaidya said.""During a tornado or hurricane, you get a lot of two-by-fours flying in a home;
a lot of debris is picked up, and it can actually penetrate inside a house. People die from the debris that comes through the walls or other things,
"With an average of more than 1, 000 tornadoes recorded in the U s. each year, it was crucial that something be done to make homes more safe,
"Those tornadoes result in approximately 80 deaths and 1, 500 injuries each year. Our goal was to develop new technology that would help protect individuals against the impact of debris during natural disasters,
and I think with these panels, we've done just that.""The panels leave the assembly line looking like typical interior walls;
#Farming Now Worse for Climate Than Clearing Forests Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
particularly in Brazil, helped reduce deforestation annual toll on the climate by nearly a quarter between the 1990s and 2010.
A new study describes how this trend has seen agriculture overtake deforestation as the leading source of land-based greenhouse gas pollution during the past decade.
the researchers note that delegates to the talks ignore similar opportunities to reform farming. he decline in deforestation over the past decade
The deforestation slowdown has, n large part, he said, been driven by new forestry rules in Brazil, by the U n. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation (REDD) program,
which funds forest conservation, and similar policies elsewhere. The new study, led by the U n. Food and agriculture organization
quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests. Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture,
suggesting agriculture indirect climate impacts surpass the impacts of deforestation for timber and other commodities. The researchers aim to tally those indirect impacts later this year.
The study is also a reminder that the burning of fossil fuels remains the main cause of global warming.
Burning fuel produces about four times more climate pollution every year than forestry and agriculture combined figure that is growing.
Agricultural climate pollution is caused mostly by livestock. Cows and buffalo are the worst offendersheir ruminating guts
that livestock are blamed for two-thirds of agriculture climate pollution every year. ee seeing an expansion of agricultural lands in some areas because of the growing global population,
Although annual climate pollution from deforestation is declining, experts warn that recent gains could quickly be reversed.
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest spiked recently following nearly a decade of declines, for example, as farmers and loggers rushed to exploit loopholes in forest protection laws.
Some parts of Central africa are seeing deforestation in areas where it was not previously a problem.
The researchers drew on three global datasets to try to hone in on land changing contribution to global warming.
Such impacts are harder to quantify accurately than are the pollution impacts of burning fuel.
and reporting complex climate indicators for deforestation and agricultural activity than is the case for the energy sector.
The paper noted a gulf between global efforts to reduce the climate impacts of deforestation, and the dearth of a global response to the climate impacts of food production.
REDD is a major focus of U n. climate negotiations but agriculture is discussed barely during the talks. here been a lot of discussion back and forth,
and perhaps a good deal of polemic, about REDD, Steve Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental defense Fund, said. ut, over time,
I think all the major actors have come to the conclusion that reducing emissions from deforestation is a key piece of solving the climate change puzzle.
and just impose reductions in food production to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets, Schwartzman said. Doug Boucher, the director of climate research at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says agriculture climate impacts could be reduced without taking food off tables.
Reducing the overuse of fertilizers, protecting the organic content of soils by changing farming practices,
The biggest opportunities for reforming agriculture climate impacts can sometimes be found miles from where any food is grown.
whether climate change can be blamed for California's drought, a recent National oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA) reportfound climate change was not the cause.
Global warming has caused excessive heat that may have worsened the drought's effects, but it isn't necessarily to blame for the lack of rain.
It's true that recent years have yielded much less rain and snow than previous times in history,
but that's just a result of"natural variance"and not necessarily because of man-made pollution.
To the extent that climate change exacerbates the drought California's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions may eventually help.
In 2006 the state passed a law mandating that it buy less coal fired energy. The Los angeles Department of Water and Power is now also selling its stake in the Navajo Generating station to invest in clean energy alternatives,
although volcanic eruptions and forest fires have been known to cause the moon to appear blue. This effect is caused by particulates like dust and smoke,
More importantly, they reduce the manufacturing costs, skill requirements and environmental impacts of car manufacturing. The idea,
and clean up nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima event. We have demonstrated that it is possible for humanoid robots to do our human jobs.
Running on heavy fuel oil freighters contribute to pollution. The International maritime organization (IMO) wants to reduce the environmental impact of ocean liners.
One of the measures: Starting from 2020, ships will only be allowed to use fuel containing maximum 0. 1 percent sulfur in their fuel in certain areas.
including clinical medicine, food safety testing, environmental monitoring and biodefense o
#Nature Inspires First Artificial Molecular Pump Using nature for inspiration, a team of Northwestern University scientists is the first to develop an entirely artificial molecular pump, in
While the biodegradability of these materials will have a positive impact on the environment, Ma says the flexibility of the technology can lead to widespread adoption of these electronic chips. ass-producing current semiconductor chips is so cheap,
The exquisite sensitivity of RAPID is based on the avalanche effect. Every photon arriving into the detector is converted into many more than one electron,
The avalanche effect is obtained without having to cool the detector to extremely low temperatures avoiding the use of a complex cooling system,
the warmer the atmosphere becomes, exacerbating global climate change. Solving the problem is not so simple, especially with regards to aviation the source of two-percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges.
and the BP energy company. ee combined chemical catalysis with life-cycle greenhouse gas modeling to create a new process for producing bio-based aviation fuel as well as automotive lubricant base oils,
density and viscosity that could achieve net life-cycle greenhouse gas savings of up to 80-percent. Bell is one of three corresponding authors of a paper describing this research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS.
and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment. Corinne Scown, a research scientist with Berkeley Lab Energy Analysis and Environmental impacts Division,
and Dean Toste, a chemist with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, are the other two corresponding authors.
Biofuels synthesized from the sugars in plant biomass help mitigate climate change. However jet fuels have stringent requirements that must be met. et fuels must be oxygen-free,
but offer only modest greenhouse gas reduction benefits. Ours is the first process to generate true drop in aviation biofuels.
Lubricant base oils can produce even more greenhouse gas emissions on a per-mass basis than petroleum-derived fuels
In their PNAS paper the authors acknowledge that the commercial implementation of their proposed process would include financial implications that extend beyond greenhouse gas emission reductions
such as the ability to adapt their composition in response to environmental cues, said Neal Devaraj, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San diego who headed the research team,
One is that the exposure to environmental hazards, such as radiation, smoking or pollution, greatly increases the risk.
e have seen that acute telomere damage is sufficient to trigger pulmonary fibrosis, even in the absence of environmental damage.
The researchers therefore developed an animal model that combines premature shortening of the telomeres due to telomerase deficiency, with low doses of environmental damage.
The project results have important implications for desalination and energy conversion using salinity gradients. They can shed new light on the fundamental processes occurring in the nanoscale biological pores that funnel essential ingredients into cells. e also developed some key data processing methods
but there are lingering concerns about their environmental impact due to the long-term effects of the used metal nanoparticles released in the environment,
and minimized environmental impact. e expect this method to have a broad impact, Richter said. e may include less of the antimicrobial ingredient without losing effectiveness
#Tiny grains of rice hold big promise for greenhouse gas reductions, bioenergy Discovery delivers high starch content,
but it also the one of the largest manmade sources of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
and release carbon dioxide emissions andplastic material that gets better with age. Source: CSIR r
#Researchers demonstrate the world first white lasers While lasers were invented in 1960 and are used commonly in many applications,
for instance, a pollution sensor to keep tabs on asthma, or just a simple phone with basic capabilities.
#Synthetic coral could suck pollution out of the sea A team of Chinese researchers has developed a material that mimics the way corals suck industrial pollutants out of the water.
the pollutants build up in the food chain. Top predators-including humans-then end up with very high levels in their bodies.
Corals are particularly good at adsorbing pollutants due partially to their structure. So a team lead by Xianbiao Wang created plates of aluminium oxide
We need to get the carbon emissions of the country down, we need to ensure security of supply all those things affect people and affect the country as a whole.
The effort is an attempt to curb the greenhouse gas emissions produced by burning jet fuel in commercial aircraft.
devastated in 2013 by Typhoon haiyan, the strongest storm ever recorded on land. The journey took almost two days,
"Although Filipinos are accustomed to typhoons, Finette said Haiyan was different.""You could see it in their emotions
In fact, climate models suggest that El niño conditions may continue into next winter. Historical evidences indicate that the prediction of the ENSO has always been very difficult.
In 2010 Bachelet was criticized widely for her response to an earthquake. The emergency services agency known as the Onemi was reorganized then
Considered one of Latin america most active volcanoes, Villarica has erupted on average once every 10 years. A major eruption in 1971 created a cloud of poisonous gases that killed approximately a dozen people.
The map also shows rain from tropical cyclones such as Hurricane Arthur and Typhoon Rammasun. Gail Skofronick-Jackson, GPM project scientist said n India they encounter monsoons.
and the trend is expected to continue as an outcome of climate change. With the help of GPM data, scientists can obtain a greater estimate of how these events will possibly adjust in future.
the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.
#Flights Cancelled Due to Volcanic eruption in Japan According to the reports of the Japan Meteorological Agency Mount Aso blasted out lava debris along with plumes of ash shot into the sky up to
Although in the late August earthquakes and seismic activities were marked the increase in the scale of eruption was expected not by the observatory y
In the United states, it can lead to storms along the West Coast and affect hurricanes and other tropical storms.
One scenario being bandied about is using these CICADAS to monitor extreme weather situations, such as tornadoes. Within a few years,
but will also leave behind massive carbon footprints. TAML activators can thus be a cost-effective solution,
"Preliminary research suggests they would be equally effective against pollution caused by antimicrobials in personal care products and antibiotic pharmaceuticals.
and activated carbon treatment systems in pilot treatment plants to find out about the exact costs of purification and carbon footprint savings s
#MIT researcher develops solar-powered desalination technology A student at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) has designed a village-scale desalination technology that is powered by the sun
While similar desalination technologies have already been discovered, none of the available filters were able to remove the saltiness of the water post-treatment.
During her visits to rural India for the project, Wright found desalination devices were not much use to villagers.
"It's useful to install a small-scale desalination system where people are so spread out that it's more costly to pump in water from a municipal plant."
I write about climate change that atmospheric carbon isn't the problem. Instead it is the continuing hockey stick graph of human population growth
The process is energy intensive and a carbon polluter. June 24, 2015-When I was a child
for a total reduction in carbon emissions of 88 percent from using the AWS Cloud instead of operating their own data centers
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