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and produces water and electricity (plus a little ash). I have visited lots of similar sites, like power plants and paper mills,
and environmentally friendly technology, says Bugnicourt. t means better use of forest resources, longer lasting wood products,
Whether speaking of the lush Yammouneh Valley, the threatened bottlenose dolphin, pristine forestlands or Lake Qaraoun, Lebanon has a long list of treasures in need of preservation.
#Levi s M&s Other Brands Pledge Zero-Deforestation Fashion LLEVI Strauss & Co.,Marks & spencer, Portico Brands and ASOS have joined Canopy Fashion Loved by Forests initiative,
committing to ensure their fabric sourcing doesn harm endangered forests or contribute to deforestation. Most rayon, viscose, modal, lyocell and other trademarked cellulosic fabrics start their journey as trees.
Canopy research has found that ancient and endangered forests are increasingly making their way into clothing.
One Year of Fashion Loved by Forest, which highlights key endangered forest otspotsthat it says should be protected from the impacts of the dissolving pulp and viscose sectors.
As part of the Fashion Loved by Forest initiative, more than 25 brands, retailers and designers, representing more than $75 billion in annual sales,
including Zara/Inditex, H&m, Eileen Fisher, Patagonia and Stella Mccartney, have committed to eliminate their use of fabrics that contain endangered forest fiber;
engage their suppliers to shift away from any endangered forest sourcing, advance long-term conservation solutions and alternative fabric options that are more sustainable such as recycled fabrics
or non-wood fibers like straw i
#Google Facebook Others Launch Sustainability Platform Unilever Coca-cola Google Facebook Nike Pepsico and dozens of other major companies and nonprofits have launched a digital sustainability platform
##When they first started looking for reservoirs for Ebola they were crashing through the rainforest looking at everythingâ##mammals insects other organisms.
Analysis of the tree shows insects developed wings 400 million years ago long before any other animal and at nearly the same time land plants grew substantially to form forests. he questions that surround this study
and pathogens of honey bees. n addition to Ostiguy researchers from Acadia University Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Agriculture and Agrifood Canada Dalhousie University and University
The Agriculture and Agrifoods Research and development Program the Forestry and Agrifoods Agency the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the US Department of agriculture supported the study.
which they were extractedsays Robert J. Moon a researcher from the US Forest Service s Forest Products Laboratory
The Forest Products Laboratory through the US Department of agriculture the Purdue Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation funded the research h
Hickey teamed up with scientists from the Queensland Department of agriculture Fisheries and Forestry; the University of Sydne;
whether volcanic ash would be a good large-volume substitute in countries without easy access to fly ash an industrial waste product from the burning of coal that is commonly used to produce modern green concrete.#
The solution might be the Biolite stove-it's a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-found fuel
The Biolite stove is a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-fou...
and the vent open to allow oxygen flow before the fire is started using whatever forest fuels are available.
#NASA probe will reveal 3d architecture of forests from space NASA is developing a laser-based instrument for deployment on the International space station that will probe the depths of Earth's forests from space in a bid to reveal more about their role in the planet's carbon cycle.
"In particular, the GEDI data will provide us with global-scale insights into how much carbon is being stored in the forest biomass.
And the system will systematically canvas all land between 50 degrees latitude north and south enough to cover most of the tropical and temperate forests.
The lasers will send brief pulses of light around 16 billion of them in a year that are optimized to pass through the canopy of even very dense forests without causing harm to animals or vegetation,
"One of the most poorly quantified components of the carbon cycle is the net balance between forest disturbance
"GEDI will help scientists fill in this missing piece by revealing the vertical structure of the forest,
GEDI's 3d maps could be combined with maps from other satellites to examine the role forest architecture plays in biodiversity and land use,
Students on this scenic campus of stately oaks rarely meet classmates in these courses. Online education is known best for serving older,
#Student in Kenya Invents Solar Powered Forest fire Detector Efforts to curb forest loss around the world as a means of cutting carbon emissions just got a boost:
then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. he heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,
he said. nce the forest station receives the alert, the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire.
Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land. Thirty-five percent of the already heavily deforested Mau Forest Complex was lost to fire, according to Noor Hassan Noor, an administrator in Kenya Rift valley province.
Noor called the new fire reporting device a potentially useful part of Kenya effort to keep forest fires in check. his is an interesting invention
and Elm are gaining popularity for front-end development. Today, startups are even starting to apply these concepts to development of the backend,
Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries around the world.
Some of the planned uses are for forests, camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption.
Fundamental additions to the automated farm, these sensors would enable a real time understanding of current farm, forest or body of water conditions.
Natural carbon sinks like forests and oceans are critical for helping soak up some of these gases.
natural ash replaced half the foundation cement (production of which produces five percent of global CO2 EMISSIONS),
but sterile ash that can be used to fertilize crops. Referring to the Omniprocessor as a lean repository for human waste,
The work was based on 76 long-term forest studies, and is published in the journal Science1. Study co-leader Phillip van Mantgem of the Western Ecological Research center in Arcata
For example, a forest that is relatively young starts out with many small saplings, and as the forest grows it also naturally thins out,
until the same space is covered with many fewer, but much larger trees. For this reason, they only looked at plots where the forest was more than 200 years old parts of the forest spared from the axe
since large-scale logging began in the region in the nineteenth century. These trees are continuously dying
but the forest-wide thinning process has finished. Modern fire suppression was ruled also out by looking at the set of forests that have no history of frequent fires.
They too have seen an increase in mortality. So far, the correlation with increased temperature is just that:
could vary between different forests. Those in hot, arid regions may be losing trees because of drought stress.
and his team captured may be symptoms of climatic stress that make the forests more liable to such catastrophes."
"says Werner Kurz of the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British columbia. What the work means for the carbon balance of the Earth is also not as obvious as it may seem.
Recently, it was shown that old forests continue to suck away carbon into their third centuries and beyond2."
and mess around with the forests, you'd probably end up accelerating mortality rates, "says co-author Jerry Franklin of the University of Washington in Seattle.
He mentions control of any invasive species that might take over from stressed forest species, the transport of tree species to colder climes further north and more controlled burns to prepare the forests for more frequent wild fires.
But he adds, "No one really knows what to do. All the sudden we are uncharted off into territory. r
providing a quick and cost-effective snapshot of mammal diversity in otherwise inaccessible rainforests. Researchers stumbled on the grisly cataloguing technique while studying a form of anthrax that kills chimpanzees in C# te d'Ivoire.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania s Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory, the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative medicine and elsewhere are developing methods for bioengineering functional vessels that could someday be used to ferry blood around 3-D-printed organs.
there is a piecemeal approach, with the government"picking winners and providing new money to the automotive, aerospace, forestry and aquaculture sectors."
with several tropical hardwoods, including ebonies and rosewoods, added to appendix II.""At the last CITES conference in Qatar I felt we didn t get anything we wanted.
and hailed by some as the discovery of the century may have been caused by ashes from an exploding star.
Another possibility is that the stellar ashes could help bring the result in line with other cosmic observations.
In test scenarios, the group has flown physical quadrotors over projections of forests, shown from an aerial perspective to simulate a drone view as
Lou's lab built and tested solar cells with nanotube forests of varying lengths The shortest,
Using their nanotube forest they're able to get the devices to operate in pure ion mode
The molecules stand shoulder to shoulder like trees in a forest while a few jitter around sideways.
Then using a minuscule manipulator they break off a single nanowire from a forest of them grown by molecular beam epitaxy insert the wire into the hole and weld it in place.
Just imagine thousands of kilometers of farm without having to clear cut thousands of kilometers of forest or other habitat on earth...
Beyond that the coalition has promised to restore hundreds of millions of acres of former forestlands
and to halt global forest destruction entirely by 2030. Razing and burning forests accounts for about 10 percent of present global carbon emissions or 3. 6 billion tons of CO2 a year.
Currently eight football fields worth of forest is degraded or destroyed every ten seconds according to the World Wildlife Fund.
So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.
and plant species that call these forests home now and will need room to move as temperatures rise in coming decades.
Neither is the nation of Brazil home to roughly 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest
As part of the declaration Norway the U k. and Germany among others pledged $1 billion to developing countries such as Liberia and Peru for preserving forests.
As Popular Science reported live from the climate summit last week a coalition announced a new commitment to stop tropical forest and peatland loss related to the palm oil industry.
and conserve forests that have been cut down as a result of the palm oil industry. They have pledged also to stop buying palm oil from suppliers that destroy forests for the creation of plantations.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced that it is dropping all of its investments in fossil fuels-about $60. 2 million or 7 percent of the total $860 million endowment in favor of renewable energy.
#Hotel delivery robot debuts in Silicon valley Savioke a start-up headed by ex-Willow Garage CEO Steve Cousins has provided Aloft hotels with a roboticâ butler.
Although not one of the Willow Garage spin-off companies many ex-Willow Garage employees now work at Savioke m
Like Willow only double l
#Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key priority Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer hands within 30 minutes.
#OAK, a Kinect-based active support system for the severely disabled OAK which stands for bservation and Access with Kinectis a software application for use by people with severe disabilities.
"entomologist and science reporter Aaron Pomerantz wrote on his site last month after taking one to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest."
They include enhancing forests to make them absorb more CO2, building chemical plants that filter the air directly,
the new metasurfaces that the researchers created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.
the researchers grew forests of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on a conductive substrate. Atomic layer chemical vapour deposition was used to in sulate the nanotubes with a coating of aluminum oxide.
Optically transparent thin calcium layers were deposited then using physical vapor deposition over the nanotube forest.
#Sri lanka first to protect mangroves Sri lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests.
"No nation in history has protected ever all of its mangrove forests and Sri lanka is going to be the first one to do so,
""It is not only that mangroves sequester an order of magnitude more carbon than other types of forest,
mangrove forests are also not susceptible to forest fires. But mangroves also offer coastal communities a more direct and immediate form of protection,
It showed that two people died in the settlement with dense mangrove and scrub forest,
Healthy fish populations, sustained by healthy mangrove forests, have provided also livelihoods and nutrition for millions of small-scale fishermen and their families for generations, allowing coastal communities to sustain themselves.
A UN report published in November 2012 warned that the growing demand for prawns meant that valuable mangrove forests were still being felled
800 hectares (21,800 acres) of existing mangrove forests by providing alternative job training, funding microloans to people in exchange for protecting local mangroves forests.
The medical advisory board for the Celiac disease Foundation, a nonprofit based in Woodland Hills, California, could not reach a consensus on the viability of Miller's research.
and safeguard entire species. Researchers claim to have worked out how to accurately predict the eruption of'supervolcanoes'that blanket the earth in giant ash clouds triggering a'nuclear winter'.
They throw 100 times more superheated gas, ash and rock into the atmosphere than run-of-the-mill eruptions-enough to blanket continents and plunge the globe into decades-long volcanic winters.
ash and rock into the atmosphere than run-of-the-mill eruptions-enough to blanket continents and plunge the globe into decades-long volcanic winters.
it emitted huge amounts of sulfuric aerosols, ash and other gases. This caused'one of the most important climatic and socially repercussive events of the last millennium'
In Britain the summer of 1783 was known as the'sand summer'because of the ash fallout and an estimated 25
New york. The state has awarded the $40 million project a $1. 3 million grant through the Regional Greenhouse gas Initiative, a program that supports multiple clean energy projects, Forester Daily news reports.
according to a study published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
the new metasurfaces that the team created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.
as well as U s. Forest Service employees who have spotted the flying bots near wildfires, has led the FAA to take further action against rule-breaking drone operators.
the new metasurfaces that the team created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.
Researchers at USC and Wake Forest Baptist Medical center have developed a brain prosthesis that is designed to help individuals suffering from memory loss.
and tested at Wake Forest Baptist, the device builds on decades of research by Ted Berger and relies on a new algorithm created by Dong Song,
The development also builds on more than a decade of collaboration with Sam Deadwyler and Robert Hampson, of the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology of Wake Forest Baptist,
Accurate readings The effectiveness of the model was tested by the USC and Wake Forest Baptist teams.
So researchers used the rings of blue oaks trees to reconstruct the area's snowpack levels throughout the past 5 centuries.
The blue oak is a long-lived species that is sensitive to winter precipitation--blips and anomalies in its rings expose extreme drought events of the past.
There are really only two big patches of intact forest left On earth#A new study uncovers the ruinous consequences, to plant and animal species,
of our increasingly fragmented forests Can a forest that exists only in the spaces between roads
and agricultural development truly be called a forest? Not so much, say researchers studying the growing, global problem of forest fragmentation.
And the ersistent, deleterious and often unpredictedconsequences of human activity, finds a new study conducted by a team off 24 international scientists,
and animal life. here are really only two big patches of intact forest left On earth the Amazon
a professor at North carolina State university, told the New yorker. early 20 percent of the world remaining forests are the distance of a football field or about 100 meters away from forest edges,
he elaborated in a statement. eventy percent of forest lands are within a half-mile of forest edges.
That means almost no forests can really be considered wilderness. And the consequences of that forest loss, the researchers discovered, may be more profound than wee previously realized.
To figure that out, they looked at the results of seven experiments, which took place on five different continents,
that aimed to simulate the impacts of human activity on forests. Several of the studies have been going on for decades,
when patches of forest become smaller and more isolated, the abundance of birds, mammal, insects and plants decreases in kind those pressures,
Fragmented forests experienced a decline in their core ecosystem functions as well: they were less able to sequester carbon dioxide,
the harmful impacts of fragmentation on forest ecosystems only become apparent after many years. On average, they found,
fragmented forests lose more than half of their species within just 20 years; in the one experiment that still ongoing after more than two decades, the losses are continuing to compound.
and dicing of the forests has wrought. Appreciating the full extent of the damage, the authors argue,
standing upright like trees in a forest. The researchers used a rod to roll the"forest"flat,
creating a dense film of aligned carbon nanotubes. In experiments, Wardle and his team integrated the film into airplane wings via conventional,
"The system starts with an"artificial forest"of nanowire heterostructures, consisting of silicon and titanium oxide nanowires, developed earlier by Yang and his research group."
"Our artificial forest is similar to the chloroplasts in green plants, "Yang says.""When sunlight is absorbed, photo-excited electron?
"Once the forest of nanowire arrays is established, it is populated with microbial populations that produce enzymes known to selectively catalyze the reduction of carbon dioxide.
By analyzing the spectral signals captured by a special sensor they installed at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass."
Ecologists from UNSW Australia in Sydney have assessed now--for the first time--the impact of reintroducing Tasmanian devils to forest ecosystems in South Eastern parts of New south wales, Australia."
Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus. Image credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus.
Image credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons These developments are hugely important. The Amazon, most of which is in Brazil,
So people stopped cutting down rain forest. There could be something to that, but there is also reason to be skeptical.
Bolivia, and other countries with tropical forest should have responded to global economic changes with a big dip in deforestation
The other plausible cause involves Brazil forest policy. Brazil adopted a number of anti-deforestation measures,
and logging use of forests. These policies are being studied carefully in other countries with deforestation problems.
But Fearnsi also lays considerable blame on policy changes by the current government that have weakened forest protections in particular an amnesty that gives violators reasons to hope that there will be future episodes of forgiveness of their current sins.
and his research group. ur artificial forest is similar to the chloroplasts in green plants,
Once the forest of nanowire arrays is established, it is populated with microbial populations that produce enzymes known to selectively catalyze the reduction of carbon dioxide.
the new metasurfaces that the researchers created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.
Fabricating the rectennas begins with growing forests of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes on a conductive substrate.
Finally, physical vapor deposition is used to deposit optically-transparent thin layers of calcium then aluminum metals atop the nanotube forest.
when they are hidden in forests. Infrasound is produced when a volcano erupts resulting in the event being able to be tracked from remote locations.
#Discarded cigarette ashes could go to good use--removing arsenic from water Arsenic a well-known poison can be taken out of drinking water using sophisticated treatment methods.
Recognizing that the porous structure of cigarette ash could be suited better to this purpose Li's team decided to test it.
In a simple inexpensive one-step method the researchers prepared cigarette ash with a coating of aluminum oxide.
Because cigarette ashes are discarded in countries around the world and can be collected easily in places where public smoking is allowed it could be part of a low-cost solution for a serious public health issue they say.
Dating ash deposits from windward volcanoes The new finding is based on measurements of the magnetic field alignment in layers of ancient lake sediments now exposed in the Sulmona basin of the Apennine Mountains east of Rome Italy.
The lake sediments are interbedded with ash layers erupted from the Roman volcanic province a large area of volcanoes upwind of the former lake that includes periodically erupting volcanoes near Sabatini Vesuvius and the Alban Hills.
or billions of years old to determine the age of ash layers above and below the sediment layer recording the last reversal.
But there is hope that periodic flows will bring back willow, mesquite, and cottonwood trees, revive insects
Thus its application in agriculture horticulture forestry plants ornamental plants or any other plant with commercial interest would represent a significant environmental and economic saving.
The complete study and abstract are available on the ASHS Horttechnology electronic journal web site: http://horttech. ashspublications. org/content/23/6/770. abstractstory Source:
During his first year at Wake Forest he heard about a percussion-playing robot designed by Georgia Tech researchers
With the support of a grant from the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center Lee teamed up with Craig Hamilton an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center
At the Wake Forest Medical center doctors use replica bodies to help train surgeons to use the Da vinci system Lee said.
This April Lee will represent Wake Forest at the ACC Meeting of the Minds an event where outstanding undergraduate researchers from each ACC university gather at one member university to present their research either verbally or as a poster.
The above story is provided based on materials by Wake Forest University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length h
In forests there s a lot of fungi that are breaking down the compounds. So the mycelium from mushrooms you use that as a glue to hold together these agricultural byproducts?
detailed maps showing changes in forests over time. The platform, unveiled at the International Climate change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation in Developing Countries) program
which would require members to monitor the state of their forests and land use. Based largely on data from the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate change report,
the REDD program plans to offer money in exchange for the prevention of the destruction of forests deemed significant to curbing global climate change.
According to the Stern report, keeping forests intact is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut carbon emissions."
"We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world's rapidly-disappearing forests,
when forests and wetlands are destroyed to clear land to grow biofuel crops. And with ILUC added to the mix, it looks like some top biofuel crops are worse for the environment, in terms of carbon emissions, than crude oil.
May the forest be with you. According to Hit Flix, Twin peaks will return for nine episodes.
In the 26 may issue of Nature Communications, Ma and his colleague, materials scientist Shaoqin arahgong, plus collaborators at UW-Madison and the Madison-based U s. Dept of agriculture Forest Products
and security workers document events in the field. ash-cams really set precedent, Schaff says. hen it comes down to it,
and generally include major cities harbors farms and forests. Irina Overeem research scientist for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System at the University of Colorado says the proportion of world deltas vulnerable to flooding is expected to increase by 50 percent this century.
it is also eliminating the problem of unintended patterns that can be created from other materials due to polymer expansions or leftover ash and residue.
This opens up for incredibly exciting future opportunities for the regional forest and construction industry as well as for regional raw material. r
published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, estimated that about 339,000 deaths worldwide between 1997 and 2006 were associated with forest, grass and peat fires.
"he added. 3d-printed livers The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative medicine has pioneered the field of laboratory-grown and printed organs.
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