So if you're into environmental conservation--particularly curbing climate change--these agreements are worthy of some renewed optimism.
32 national and 20 local or regional governments 40 companies 16 indigenous peoples groups and 49 nonprofits have pledged all cooperation to halve current rates of deforestation by 2020.
Razing and burning forests accounts for about 10 percent of present global carbon emissions or 3. 6 billion tons of CO2 a year.
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.
In the U s. alone tailpipe emissions account for one-fifth of the nation's annual 5. 833 billion tons of greenhouse gas pollution according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
But so far Greenpeace International is not among them stating that the plan is neither ambitious enough nor firmly grounded in tangible action.
(although the government has stated it intends to cut deforestation roughly 25 percent by 2020). 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.
But the enormous demand also drives rampant deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia as growers clear land for palm oil plantations.
since 2009 that the U n. secretary general Ban Ki-moon had nestled a day full of climate change-centric programming into the yearly schedule of the U n. General assembly.
In 2009 official climate treaty talks were scheduled with the intention of producing a strong global climate treaty later that year--one featuring defined and legally binding commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by the U s. and other industrialized nations.
Five years later many negative impacts of climate change have become even more visible worldwide as Popular Science often reports.
They marched to demand climate change action and even the march's organizers claimed to be surprised by the heavy turnout.
Hundreds appeared again the next day September 22 for Flood Wall street using the tactics of the Occupy Wall street protests to keep media attention on climate change.
The science behind climate change is accepted well in most nations and the urgent need for action has been explained well to heads of state by the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (the U n.'s own climate science body).
So this latest unofficial climate summit was more about staking out positions on contentious issues ahead of official climate treaty negotiations that will occur over the next 14 months.
The GCF is intended also to help pay for resilience-related projects such as strengthening infrastructure to withstand global warming impacts like sea level rise--efforts that are termed adaptation.
What share of curbing present-day pollution will be taken by the world's poorer nations as well as the richest?
and other events) underlines that India will be hard to bring around on cutting its greenhouse gas emissions which are now the world's third-largest t
#How Tweets Can Save Lives Natural disasters and political unrest trigger torrents of tweets and posts chaotic snippets of what could be valuable information.
During Hurricane sandy there were more than 20 million tweets and several hundred thousand pictures. We re developing solutions to quickly identify needles in the haystack and chart them visually.
For example before Typhoon haiyan made landfall in the Philippines we got a request from the United nations to look for all tweets that said I need help
and waste and decreases the time it takes to construct an interior. Because of ICE we don't have separate teams of manufacturers trying to coordinate with ordered engineering says Jenkins.
Modeling all the way these structures can also interact with their environments is also very difficult he added.
and create lead pollution when they're incorrectly trashed. A team at MIT believes that this lead can be cut out of the waste stream entirely
The research Environmentally-responsible fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells from recycled car batteries was published recently online by the journal Energy and Environmental science.
Food waste from many Sainsbury's stores will get trucked to a central depot. One store doesn't make enough waste to power itself,
so running the Cannock Sainsbury's actually requires waste from several.)From the depot, a waste management company called Biffa will truck the waste to its Cannock plant.
What happens at Biffa's Cannock anaerobic digester is "what happens inside a cow's stomach after dinner,
Anaerobic digestion does have some drawbacks. It produces some solid and liquid wastes called the digestate.
Some of the digestate can be used as fertilizer, but then you have to make sure you have customers for fertilizers nearby (i e.,
Anaerobic digestion is considered also a less favored way of dealing with excess food. From an environmental standpoint, it's better to chop food up into deli salad,
anaerobic digestion is a great to take care of it. P. S. P. S. Popular Science Postscript:
a greenhouse gas, help reduce global warming? The explanation is a bit academic, but we love you for asking.
or stick'em in a digestersn't always considered as contributing to global warming. That's because in the natural cycle of things, the next generation of plants should take up the carbon dioxide released by the previous generation of dead plants,
such as possibly being able to biodegrade after it is done serving a useful purpose, which could help patients avoid additional surgeries.
'and expansion of the current treatment storage disposal facility such that it will be possible for 25 tonnes of waste to be incinerated daily.
Thus far, four of Alang's recycling yards have completed the first phase of an international standard certification process.
Once approved, the yards will officially meet the standards of the International Hong kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.'
'Japanese companies own 2000 out of the total 3000 major ships in the world'points out Keiji Tomoda, chairman of the Ship Recycling Subcommittee of the Japanese Ship Owners'Association.'
'Most of the Japanese-owned ships go to China for recycling after their life. But we want to sell end-of-life ships to India
In addition these platform kits cannot leave a controlled environment a huge problem for makers who aim for full home applications.
and this is a problem when developing robots for use in cluttered environments such as search and rescue or surveying.
This level of interaction creates a hands on learning environment that enables kids to gain experience responding to real world scenarios.
while adapting to a constantly changing environment.##Dyson is also planning a £250m expansion of one of its UK sites at Malmesbury
No GPS-like system was available for them to know their location in the environment.
They also enable the first steps towards creating artificial swarms for real-world applications including disaster relief environmental monitoring and maybe even art.
and females) to enable them to master control of an exoskeleton directly with their brain in a stressful environment like a stadium.
The hopeful volunteers have trained in a realistic virtual environment mimicking the real stadium while receiving feedback from the tactile sleeves for the past 8 months with the final decision on who would take the kick made only last week.
Thanks to Google previous experience with self-driving cars one can expect very good performance in real environments;
Modules also contain a latch-based connection mechanism that allows them to connect to each other or to connector ports in the environment.
One of its six Action Groups focuses on independent living while others deal with related topics like the prevention and early detection of falls and age-friendly communities and environments.
Through a device implanted in the skull the Braingate device interfaces with a computer allowing the individual to interact with their environment.
and size to fit variable environments and interact with living things without causing them harm. Possible applications include:
The Packbot was also the first remote controlled robot to enter the Fukushima nuclear facility after the East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
and also to provide a rewarding environment for learning to code. The Play-i team are parents who want to address the shortfall of computer scientists in an increasingly digital world. â##What makes Play-iâ#robots so unique and special is that they really connect with younger kids on an emotional level
 â##The technology will empower health care facilities to more effectively use their limited resources to deliver greater value in the increasingly resource-constrained U s. health care environment. â#SEDASYS will cost about $150 per procedure on a fee-peruse plan from J&j
the other will conduct commercial environmental monitoring in the Arctic circle assist emergency response teams in oil spill monitoring
when conducting experiments with our vehicle within the environment of a 3d motion capture system (needed for ground truth measurements)
As shown in the video below you could use these sensors to control small robots navigating an environment even in the dark
and includes neuromorphic photoreceptors that allow motion perception in a wide range of environments from a sunny day to moon light.
#Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls The Airburr a lightweight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my Phd lab) at EPFL was designed to fly in cluttered environments.
Unlike most flying robot which avoid contact at all cost the Airburr interacts with its environment to navigate.
As researchers at the European space agency Advanced Concepts Team, we wanted to study how visual cues could be used by robotic spacecraft to help them navigate unknown, extraterrestrial environments.
One of our main research goals was to explore how robots can share knowledge about their environments
factory environments isn easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to navigate.
Enter Rezero: a compact ballbot that can fluidly drive in any direction without prior orientation. Similar in size
making it ideal for navigating crowded environments like tradeshows, restaurants, offices and airports. It easy to imagine it one day being used to unobtrusively serve drinks at a cocktail event,
Its ability to quickly respond to a changing environment is what makes Rezero so suitable for human environments,
and according to Rezero creators, achieving this robustness was their most challenging task. Rezero controller is derived from a three-dimensional mathematical model of the system,
so that it can better manage obstacles in an everyday environment a
#Desktop PC-sized fully automatic genetic testing device The Genelead from Precision System Science (PSS) is a fully automatic genetic testing device that completely automates the genetic testing process that ordinarily would require manual intervention.
but PSS aims to create an environment where genetic testing devices can be used at more medium-sized hospitals emergency testing hospitals and even small clinics.
It maps its own environment and uses an array of sophisticated sensors to autonomously move about a busy space without interfering with people or other objects.
Researchers hope that in the future the DALER might be used to find victims in dangerous areas after a natural disaster
rather than using time to search for victims in a dangerous environment. Future development of the DALER will include the ability to hover
Welcome environment Recent research has shown also that the cells and proteins that surround a tumour play an important role in determining how it behaves.
recruiting their help in creating a micro-environment with suitable conditions for the cancer to spread.
A large proportion of the cells found in the tumour micro-environment are associated cancer fibroblasts (CAFS.
And world leaders agree a sustainable development goal just for energy was adopted last month. It emphasizes the role of renewable energy in getting us to the finish line of reaching sustainable energy for all by 2030.
#How One Business Approach Can Save The Environment And Bring $4. 5 Trillion To The World Economy Despite reports of a turbulent global economy,
For all industries, this growth will bring new challenges and pressures when meeting unprecedented demand in an environment of dwindling if not already scarce resources.
And because current manufacturing methods create massive waste, about 80%of $3. 2 trillion material value is lost irrecoverably each year in the consumer products industry alone.
because it inherently wastes resources that are becoming scarce. Right now, most serious businesspeople think sustainability is in conflict with earning a profit and becoming wealthy.
True sustainability, economic sustainability, is exactly the opposite. With this mindset, it becomes strategic to support practices that support a circular economy in the long run.
The circular economy: Good for business, good for the environment What if your business practices and operation can help save our planet?
Would you do it? Now, what if I said that this one business approach could put $4. 5 trillion up for grabs?
every company can redesign the future of the environment, the economy, and their overall business. ade possible by the digital economy, forward-thinking businesses are choosing to embrace this value to intentionally reimagine the economy around how we use resources,
Vivek Bapat revealed that 68%of consumers are interested in companies that bring social and environmental change.
business and economic growth does need not to happen at the cost of the environment and public health and safety.
or if students give feedback that a given topic isn't pertinent to the work environment,
"You need bacteria that can survive the harsh environment of concrete, "says Jonkers.""It's a rocklike, stonelike material, very dry."
so I think it's a really nice example of tying nature and the built environments together in one new concept
All stages need to happen inside a tightly controlled environment with set temperatures, humidity, ph, oxygen levels, and pressure.
#Second Deadly Quake Hits Nepal Near Everest At least 16 people were killed in a new earthquake that struck devastated Nepal on Tuesday, according to a bulletin from the country's disaster agency.
"According to local government, some houses damaged by the previous earthquake collapsed. Since residents were transferred to safe areas last time
and Bioinspiration. hen it is reaching in the underwater environment, the octopus uses a flexible structure.
Waves can be produced to mimic anything from rough waters to tsunamis. By generating choppy waters, enormous waves and the like, scientists hope to better test standards for dykes, dunes,
and Trade Program Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Friday that China will develop a carbon trading system as a way to reduce the country greenhouse gas emissions.
comes as both countries prepare to strike a global carbon emissions agreement at the Paris climate negotiations in December.
The U s. and China are the top greenhouse gas emitting nations in the world. China plans to launch the world largest emissions trading program in 2017,
creating a carbon market for electric power generation, steel, cement and other industries producing most of the country greenhouse gas emissions.
The program is meant to complement the Obama administration Clean Power Plan, which was finalized in August
and aims to slash carbon emissions from electric power plants by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. issued our Clean Power Plan to reduce America carbon emissions,
He said that the two nations are putting forth ur ambitious visionon climate change so that both the U s. and China can lead the way for other nations to come to a climate agreement in Paris in December.
Finally, China announced that it will use $3. 1 billion to help developing countries combat climate change. oday
China one of the largest providers of public financing for infrastructure worldwide agreed to work towards strictly controlling public investment flowing into projects with high pollution and carbon emissions both domestically and internationally,
In June, China submitted its pledge to the United nations to peak its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030,
president of the World Resources Institute, a global natural resources think tank, said in a statement that Friday announcement lays a cornerstone for a global climate agreement in Paris in December. hese two countries have found common ground
-and-trade program for carbon emissions will not begin to solve our climate crisis, Food and Water Watch Executive director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement. hrough a system of reditsand dubious and unverifiable offsets,
cap-and-trade programs essentially create a commodity out of pollution, allowing for financial corporations to profit from polluting industries. c
#Micromotors Could Help Reduce Ocean Pollution The buildup of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, is increasingly impacting oceans around the world, making waters more acidic and threatening sea life.
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San diego have made a splash in trying to overcome this obstacle.
and reused for future applications. f the micromotors can use the environment as fuel, they will be more scalable, environmentally friendly and less expensive, Kevin Kaufmann,
and purification processes that can also be harmful to the environment, according to the research team.
While that all sounds sustainable, BBC reports that some environmentalists are worried because the company will take the salt removed to create the caverns
#Sucking carbon from the sky may not slow climate change As U s. President Barack Obama finalizes plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions today,
if even more extreme measures will be neededuch as using machines to suck carbon dioxide from the environment.
"You hear CDR mentioned as an option to maybe avoid dangerous climate change, but when we did the simulations you see the effect of this technique is quite small,
"says lead author Sabine Mathesius, a climate modeler at the Potsdam Institute for Climate impact Research in Germany.
CDR technologies belong to a class of climate change-fighting techniques known as geoengineering. They include enhancing forests to make them absorb more CO2,
but the Intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded last year that reaching a key emissions goaloughly equivalent to limiting warming to 2°C by 2100ould rely on the deployment of one or several CDR technologies.
Yet the scientists found the environmental benefits of such a massive technological campaign were surprisingly small, especially in terms of protecting the ocean from the impacts of climate change.
with CDR the acidification was reduced 0. 7 units, the team reports online today in Nature climate change.
to the problems of global warming and ocean acidification are no substitute for reducing carbon emissions.""The study could discourage investment in CDR technologies, such as carbon-sucking machines under development by Carbon Engineering in Calgary, Canada.
where collecting CO2 pollution from each car is infeasible. c
#Tapeworms may be good for your brain Tapeworms get a bad rap. Theye voracious parasites that burrow into gut walls and devour nutrients like a nightmarish version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Williamson and colleagues exposed the rats to a new environment that the rodents soon came to recognize.
the team concludes online today in the Journal of Applied Ecology. And the insects proved superior to other pest control methods in four of the six studies that evaluated cost-effectiveness.
such as viruses or single molecules. ultimode mass sensing has previously been limited to air or vacuum environments,
They also provide an environment tailored to their needs, according to Dan Gold, a postdoc who led the research in the laboratory of Jeroen Saeij, the Robert A. Swanson Career development Associate professor of Life sciences in MIT Department of biology.
He also points to potential applications in other harsh environments and in components created on very small scales.
Other programmable materials could pay off in improved building environments. e want materials that transform themselves, depending on sunlight, moisture, humidity levels,
and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.
First, it scans 3-D space to capture wireless reflections off objects in the environment,
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
who is the Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
which reduces coal plants'negative environmental impacts. Pratson and Haerer published their study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy policy.
"Unfortunately, growth of cells in these oversimplified environments has been shown not to correlate well with human cell responses in the body.
The International space station is an international science laboratory in low Earth orbit where astronauts conduct scientific research in biology, human biology, astronomy, meteorology and other fields in a gravity-free environment.
the right-wing government proposed to"introduce a new criterion to exclude companies whose conduct to an unacceptable degree entail greenhouse gas emissions."
though its conclusions had left environmentalists and the political opposition disappointed. They had wanted to see the fundhich is valued at 835 billion euros ($885 billion),
the tobacco industry and companies that are found guilty of violating human rights, causing serious environmental damage, or corruption.
whose business models were deemed no longer tenable because of climate change or environmental costs. The white book also proposed an increase in the share of earmarked"green"investments
Therefore, his breakthrough has a significant economic impact as well as an impact on the energy industry and environment.
electronics and the environment,"said Michael L. Cherry, chair and professor, LSU Department of physics and Astronomy."
to understand how the particles evolve in reactive environments. Explore further: New nanomaterials will boost renewable energy More information:"
"Our findings highlight one of the amazing mechanisms that bacteria have evolved to provide protection from changes in their environment.
Data on 50,000 systems reveal they stand up to hurricanes, hail Kurtz and NREL's Dirk Jordan have analyzed data from 50,000 solar energy systems installed between 2009 and 2013 and discovered that just 0. 1%of all PV systems reported being affected by damaged or underperforming modules per year,
Despite hurricanes hail, shading, vandalism, and hookup delays, approximately 85%of all systems each year produced 90%or more of the electricity predicted,
Wells fargo Environmental finance Banker Jon Previtali told the international gathering that 3. 7 gigawatts of utility-scale solar were installed in the United states in 2014.
"It's not always a smooth ride operating electronics in such a harsh environment, "said Jingbo Ye,
Digital imaging is expected to enable many emerging fields including wearable devices, sensor networks, smart environments, personalized medicine,
"Michopoulos wants to offer design engineers a simulation environment based on actual data.""Instead of asking the question,
and a significant amount of waste is generated. Professor Kobayashi's application of flow chemistry techniques to the production of fine chemicals using heterogeneous catalysts has resulted in simple method to synthesize (R)
The thefts have caused other environmental disasters in the past and a deadly explosion in December 2010, when an illegal tap caused a blast that killed 29 people in the central town of San martin Texmelucan.
#New software analyses the effect of climate change on buildings from the cloud Large Spanish construction companies have begun to use a simulation software package,
enabling the effect of global warming on constructions to be identified. Brothers Pau and Antoni Fonseca, Inlab FIB researchers from the Centre for Innovation
"Another of the software's most original features is the ability to simulate models to show how global warming may affect construction.
and engineering work using online mixed-reality environments. The technology, using a large screen to enhance the sense of reality and interactive avatars,
It means they work together in the virtual environment but manipulate the equipment in the real environment.
Working together on an intelligent home prototype, the project meant the scientists at Instituto Tecnológico de León in Mexico could immediately see the effect of their actions on the equipment at Essex.
if this is a good platform for people working together across the world in this mixed-reality environment."
will react to a warming climate, said JPL glaciologist Eric Rignot, a coauthor of the paper.
It is stable in the acidic stomach environment but dissolves in the small intestine near-neutral ph,
because it is both safe and stable in the stomach environment. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of a paper in the July 27 issue of Nature Materials that describes the application
Park. e know that asthma is related to genes, environment, and the interaction between the two,
By coupling the bulk gel with a small eptidederived from the extracellular environment of genuine stem cell niches,
and less effective waste accumulates, forming deposits. ifferentiating RPE cells is quite easy. But in order to undertake a complete therapy,
and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.
of how nanomaterials interact with molecules in their environment by looking at the individual nanoparticle as opposed to looking at many of them at the same time,
so that it is possible to study nanoparticles one at a time in their actual environments. This ability to observe nanoparticles outside the lab could prove to be a key development for studies on the impact of nanoparticles in the environment e
#An Electric car Heater Can't Be Too Thin or Too Economical Just about every electrical device seems to want to slim down to a thin filmf possible,
longer battery life or lower power consumption in data centers to reduce their costs and greenhouse gas emissions, and ultra-sensitive and low-power biosensors and gas sensors to enhance the Internet of things.
cleantech ($2 billion. Why now? According to data from the Cleantech Group, investment in Agtech was relatively flat before 2013.
Most tech innovation in agriculture was concentrated narrowly in biotechnology and seed genetics, and both investment and innovation was limited to players with close ties to the ag sector.
Outside of seed genetics and crop inputs, most other Agtech was bundled typically with Cleantech. Then, in 2013, there was a shift.
and the Green revolution from 1940-1960 have largely been exhausted. Rates of yield increases for major crops have been trending negatively on a 10-year curve at the very time that global forces of population growth, prosperity,
and more concerned about the impact that agriculture has on the environment. Agriculture now accounts for about 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions
a 75 percent increase since 1990, which makes agriculture a huge target for disruption. In addition, informed consumers are demanding locally grown, sustainable food with fewer chemicals,
and have not fostered a robust environment of entrepreneurship and innovation. Big hairy audacious goals Like cleantech before it
many Agtech companies are have set their sights on Big Hairy Audacious Goals. This is also a lure for investors who are attracted to companies looking to solve big problems with big market potential.
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