Oldani and other student team members recently traveled to Washington D c. to showcase their project at the EPA's 10th annual National Sustainable Design Expo for the People Prosperity and the Planet competition.
and protect the planet. It is important that Kansas State university students pursue sustainable projects because it is not only good for the environment
a miniscule skeleton shrimp from Santa catalina Island in California a single-celled protist that does a credible imitation of a sponge a clean room microbe that could be a hazard during space travel and a teensy fringed fairyfly named Tinkerbell.
Florida U s a. and French guiana There are some things we don't want to send into space and the newly discovered clean room microbes are among them.
Found in rooms where spacecraft are assembled this microbial species could potentially contaminate other planets that the spacecraft visit.
Valdecasas concluded by conjuring an image of a human who had arrived on Mars with a one-way ticket.
At some point that space traveler would begin pining for the flowers and animals of home the smell of spring and the sound of running water.
Now think how fortunate we are to have at hand such a universe. Members of the international selection committee in addition to Valdecasas are Dr. Cristina Damborenea Divisiã n Zoologia Invertebrados Museo de La plata Argentina;
or a valley wall heated by the sun and the fluid was the air passing over it;
As a result fog is important in shielding the buds from the sun and helping them accumulate winter chill.
large teams of scientists confronting the dilemma of a changing climate on a shrinking planet.
Each mature tree after all needs sufficient space and nutrition for its development and will therefore be able to survive only at an appropriate distance to its neighbour.
If society aggressively controlled carbon dioxide emissions but ignored methane emissions the planet would warm to the dangerous 1. 5 to 2. 0 Degree celsius threshold within 15 to 35 years.
It is important to understand the other 99 percent of biodiversity that once inhabited the planet
and stabilize a space while natural tissue grows to replace it. The new material detailed in the American Chemical Society journal Biomacromolecules takes the state of the art a few steps further Rice scientists said.
That process known as syneresis defeats the purpose of defining the space doctors hope to fill with new tissue.
and potentially cool a warming planet. The tree-ring study suggests that Arctic trees might not grow as much
A fern that can take sun or shade in a continually wet area is the Sensitive fern.
While climate change certainly is a global challenge as greenhouses-gases from the use of fossil fuels disturb ecosystems worldwide the impacts vary widely over space and time.
From the perspective of the birds these things are from Mars. Knutie says the flies now infest all land birds there including most of the 14 species of Darwin's finches two
Existing satellite maps of the area have estimated trees'carbon content based largely on their height
Satellites can't see species but species really matter for carbon. This is the big challenge for the next generation of satellite and field scientists.
New satellites will be launched soon that will be more sensitive to forest structure and biomass but we must ensure we have sufficient ecological ground data to correctly interpret
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NASA satellites showa new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness
Scientists use the satellite-derived greenness of forest regions as one indicator of a forest's health.
These changes in available water were detected in part with NASA satellites including the NASA/JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission NASA's Quick Scatterometer (Quikscat) and NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
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and distribution limiting the types of products sold restricting marketing efforts and restricting consumption in public spaces.
Until the next asteroid slams into Earth the future of all known life hinges on people more than on any other force Daily said.
when the first President bush signed with other countries that climate change was an issue for the planet said Rice who added that this latest report is one of a series that has come out every seven years.
and space said Fiona Marshall Phd professor of anthropology at Washington University in St louis. It is not representative of the practices of the Neolithic herders who first domesticated animals nor--for that matter--of contemporary herders in nonindustrial societies.
and switching to a variety of coffee called Robusta that tolerates full sun. Robusta is a lower-quality coffee than the other major variety sold around the world Arabica.
Full sun coffee plantations often result in deforestation loss of biodiversity and soil depletion while leaving communities more vulnerable to flooding and landslides.
but these same types of changes in immune response are found to occur in healthy crew members during spaceflight.
Based upon anecdotal evidence crews report that having plants around from previous space studies was very comforting
This study will emphasize the focus on human habitability in space since growing food in space may greatly improve long-duration spaceflight.
Veggie can support a variety of studies used to determine how plants sense and respond to gravity.
or to an asteroid or Mars. The Veggie unit's growth volume will be the largest volume available to date for plant growth on the space station
The cameras are enclosed in a temperature-specific case and exposed to the harsh radiation of the space environment.
Analysis of the effect of space on the video quality during the HDEV operational period may help engineers determine the best types of commercially available cameras to use on future missions.
Some investigations will be enjoyed for years to come like the fresh veggies that one day will be grown in space for future crews to eat as they explore beyond Earth's orbit.
The new study includes both those factors as well as nitrogen availability in an analysis synthesizing data from 92 forests in different climate zones on the planet.
#Cool climate, clean planet: Research suggests cooling action will clean airever-rising greenhouse gas emissions
If we take action to cool the planet we can also expect the added benefit of cleaner air particularly in China says Professor Edgar Hertwich from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
And as an industrial ecologist like Hertwich will tell you price is everything in determining the kinds of choices we will make to either protect the planet's climate
so save the planet. A menu for actionin its own words the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change.
The world's scientists have calculated a carbon budget for the planet which tells us how much CO2 we can put into the atmosphere before we reach concentrations above which we will unacceptably warm the planet.
#Green space keeps you from feeling blueif you start feeling better as spring begins pushing up its tender shoots you might be living proof of a trend discovered in data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin:
The more green space in the neighborhood the happier people reported feeling. Across neighborhoods of Wisconsin from the North Woods to the cities the results are striking says Dr. Kristen Malecki assistant professor of population health sciences at the UW School of medicine and Public health.
Higher levels of green space were associated with lower symptoms of anxiety depression and stress. The study published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research
The hollow spaces are filled with one of two chemicals: hydrogen peroxide or manganese dioxide. The two separate films are stuck then on top of each another.
The result is a snapshot of how the entire Tree of Life of birds is distributed on the planet
Mapping where distinct species are on the planet also gives insight into which areas and countries steward disproportionate amounts of bird evolution.
#Mercury contamination threatens Antarctic birdsmercury contamination in the Antarctic and Subantarctic affects bird populations reveal researchers from the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizã and from the'Littoral Environnement et Sociã tã s'Laboratory (CNRS/Universitã de
Ultimately Kanan would like to see a scaled-up version of the catalytic cell powered by electricity from the sun wind or other renewable resource.
The recent rains coupled with the sun has caused a huge growth spurt in the trees
and joint space width was measured by x-ray to evaluate OA progression. Subjects included 888 men and 1260 women who had follow-up at 12 24 36 and 48 months As the intake of milk increased from none to less than 3 4-6
and more than 7 (8 oz) glasses per week the joint space width in women also decreased by 0. 38mm 0. 29mm0. 29mm and 0. 26mm respectively.
No association between milk consumption and joint space width decrease was reported in men. Our findings indicate that women who frequently drink milk may reduce the progression of OA concludes Dr. Lu.
and in space as the proportion of vegetation diminishes from upstream of the study area where flooded forests dominate to downstream where the majority of the lakes are found.
#NASAS OCO-2 brings sharp focus on global carbonsimply by breathing humans have played a small part in the planet-wide balancing act called the carbon cycle throughout our existence.
OCO-2 will not be the first satellite to measure carbon dioxide but it's the first with the observational strategy precision resolution
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
and computer analysis tools to see better how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community
and protecting our home planet. For more information about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014 visit:
but using 13 percent less water and reflecting 34 percent more radiation back into space by breeding for slightly different leaf distribution angles and reflectivity.
and colleagues found preferring a sagebrush steppe environment featuring very little human development and dwarf sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula A. nova or A. tripartita) but not cheatgrass or other nonnative plants.
and at the University of California Davis. The project was funded by the peanut industry through the Peanut Foundation and by MARS Inc. and three Chinese academies (Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences Chinese Academy of Agricultural
and use photographs from the field and satellites. Two other Amazon resources--fisheries and forests--are important to the livelihood of the people of the region.
Observatory and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Even if precipitation changes in the future are uncertain there are good reasons to be concerned about water resources.
and supporting urban green spaces it is critical to protect the viability of urban community gardens
Research in 2013 led by Joanna Joiner of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. demonstrated that fluorescence from plants could be teased out of data from existing satellites
Guanter Joiner and Frankenberg launched their collaboration at a 2012 workshop hosted by the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena to explore measurements of photosynthesis from space.
Challenges remain in estimating the productivity of fragmented agricultural areas not properly sampled by current space-borne instruments.
and in combination with data from other upcoming satellites such as NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive scheduled for launch later this year.
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By 2070 there will be many more of us on this planet. Diets high in meat milk cheese
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It is important day to remind us to save our planet as it is the only one we know which has trees says Tony Simons the Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF.
or trying to fall pregnant and taking a folic acid supplement may be at risk of reducing their folate benefit through sun exposure a new QUT study has warned.
of sun exposure accounted up to a 20 per cent reduction in folate levels. This is concerning as the benefits of folic acid are well-known with health professionals urging young women to take a folic acid supplement prior to
Professor Kimlin said the study which was the first to investigate the effects of sun exposure on folate levels in women of childbearing age found women who had high levels of sun exposure had folate levels below those recommended for women considering pregnancy.
and 3pm with little sun protection Professor Kimlin said. These were the women who had the highest levels of sun exposure
and the lowest levels of folate whilst not deficient in folate they were on the lower side of normal.
The expansion of the Lone Star State's distilleries is limited not to vodka either. Right now there are more than 25 distilleries in the state of Texas
And more than 273 wineries have cropped up in the Lone Star State according to Stephens. In their vodka-tasting study 50 men
or other green spaces a combination of commonly-grown garden plants from all around the globe will help support our urban bumblebees for future generations.
and dead wood changes the colors in a satellite optical image. The researchers then scaled up their techniques so they could be applied to satellite and airborne data for parts of the Amazon with no corresponding ground data.
EMBRAPA Satellite Monitoring Center Campinas Brazil; National Institute for Research in Amazonia Manaus Brazil; EMBRAPA Eastern Amazonia Santarã m Brazil;
National Institute for Space Research (INPE) SãO Josã dos Campos Brazil; the Missouri Botanical garden Oxapampa Peru;
and the Carnegie Institute for Science Stanford Calif. NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community
and protecting our home planet. For more information about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014 visit:
#Astronomers complete cosmic dust censusan international team of astronomers has completed a benchmark study of more than 300 galaxies producing the largest census of dust in the local Universe the Herschel Reference Survey.
Led by Dr Luca Cortese from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne Australia the team used the Herschel Space Observatory to observe galaxies at far-infrared
These dust grains are believed to be fundamental ingredients for the formation of stars and planets but until now very little was known about their abundance
and physical properties in galaxies other than our own Milky way said Dr Cortese'Cosmic dust is heated by starlight to temperatures of only a few tens of degrees above absolute zero
This affects our ability to accurately estimate how much dust is in the Universe. It is particularly an issue for the most distant galaxies
Although the Herschel Space Telescope completed its mission in April 2013 the combination of data in the Herschel archive with future observations from the newly commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile
#Innovative solar-powered toilet ready for India unveilinga revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2. 5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable
The energy generated by the sun and transferred to the fiber-optic cable system--similar in some ways to a data transmission line--can heat up the reaction chamber to over 600 degrees Fahrenheit to treat the waste material disinfect pathogens in both feces and urine and produce char.
and because it is facing the sun for more of the year it's slightly warmer and slightly drier.
-Ching Chu entomology research associate Weilin Sun Illinois Natural history Survey insect behaviorist Joseph Spencer and U. of I. entomology professor Barry Pittendrigh.
The U n. Food and Agricultural organization estimates that grasslands cover between one-fifth and two-fifths of the planet's land area
and bacteria to clean up some of the worst soils on the planet while increasing their fertility.
and figure out how to keep livestock in ways that work best for individuals communities and the planet.
#Save money and the planet: Turn your old milk jugs into 3-D printer filamentmaking your own stuff with a 3d printer is vastly cheaper than
Besides a recent multidisciplinary study published in Nature Climate Change journal reveals that global warming is also accelerating deforestation of the planet.
Moisture data are derived from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES GOES data are inputted into the Atmosphere-Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI) model previously developed by Dr. Mecikalski and others.
Vegetation cover is estimated using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999 on board Terra (EOS AM) and in 2002 on board the Aqua (EOS PM) satellites.
This setup is inexpensive and much more compact than previous systems allowing for the production of smaller volumes of smoke solution within a small space such as a fume hood.
This system can be constructed in a relatively small space and will allow future researchers to produce smoke solutions from a wide range of plant species found in the habitats they are investigating says Coons.
It is our hope that several satellite herds of Yellowstone bison can be assembled from the animals that graduate through this quarantine process.
and what role they will play in the planet's response. In related work Thornton's group was part of a campaign last summer to study air chemistry over the Southeastern United states where aerosols formed by reforested areas
Thinking that perhaps it had something to do with how the cones are packed into such a small space Corbo approached Torquato
forest recovery at a finer scale than can be observed from satellites and getting a better handle on the nuances of tree species height and soil conditions.
and the Carnegie Institution for Science have developed a new mathematical model that predicts how trees compete for space in the canopy.
If you think of the trees as competing for access to space in the canopy and we can infer what those rules are by analyzing data like these.
whereby tiny sulfate-based aerosols are released into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight and cool the planet.
The tree's surface area and the volume of space it occupies are nearly the same said physicist Jayanth Banavar dean of the UMD College of Computer Mathematical and Natural sciences.
Some have proposed that the missing part of the equation has to do with the space occupied by internal organs.
and particles at the edge of our solar system that appears to be a directional roadmap in the sky of the local interstellar magnetic field.
Unknown until now the direction of the galactic magnetic field may be a missing key to understanding how the heliosphere--the gigantic bubble that surrounds our solar system--is shaped by the interstellar magnetic field
Operations center at the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space. Schwadron and IBEX colleagues published their findings online today in Science.
and direct galactic cosmic rays is a crucial component to understanding the environment of our galaxy which in turn influences the environment of our entire solar system
and our own environment here On earth including how that played into the evolution of life on our planet.
To date the only other direct information gathered from the heart of this complex boundary region is from NASA's Voyager satellites.
Voyager 1 is believed to have crossed into interstellar space in 2012. Interestingly when scientists compared the IBEX
what was just beyond near-Earth space. Now a whole new realm of science is opening up as we try to understand the physics all the way outside the heliosphere.
and to cross moderately open spaces in mosaic landscapes although the extent of this versatility remains to be investigated.
or sun. The presence of chocolate bloom does not mean that the chocolate is unsafe to eat.
and technologies to further our understanding of the dynamic forces that continue to shape our planet
and Technology who started her career creating a viable Mars colony food system for NASA.
The most traditional form of cultivation can be found in the gardens of the Chagga people Hhere the sun-shy coffee trees
which rely on shade by varieties that tolerate lots of sun and are more resistant to fungiâ#explains Professor Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter a tropical ecologist at the University of WÃ rzburg's Biocenter.
The tropical experts conducted experiments in twelve areas on the slopes of Mount kilimanjaro in Tanzania located in all three cultivation systems (Chagga gardens shade plantations and sun plantations.
Shaky foundations in sun plantationsâ#oehowever it is likely that these seemingly stable ecosystem services rest on shaky foundations in the sun plantationsâ#believe the WÃ rzburg scientists.
So if honey bee numbers were to decrease as they might in climatically unfavorable years this could reduce the harvest in the sun plantations.
Correcting for this artifact in the data Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md
or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites make daily observations over the huge expanse of Amazon forests.
They culled satellite observations from MODIS and NASA's Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESAT) Geosciences Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
Only one of the hypothesized mechanisms for the green-up changes in sun-sensor geometry was consistent with the satellite observations.
when the sun is as low and far north as it will get shadows are abundant.
because the sun is directly behind the sensor at the equinox. This seasonal change in MODIS greenness has nothing to do with how forests are changing.
In fact accounting for the changing geometry between the sun and satellite sensor paints a picture of the Amazon that as a whole doesn't change much through the dry season.
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and cools the planet. The researchers say this theory suggests that mountainous ecosystems have acted like Earth's thermostat addressing the risk of'catastrophic'overheating or cooling over millions of years.
In the past this natural process may have prevented the planet from reaching temperatures that are catastrophic for life. Co-author Yadvinder Malhi Professor of Ecosystem Science at Oxford University said:
because so much more of the planet was covered in forest. Those reactive compounds altered Earth's radiation balance contributing a net global warming as much as two to three times greater than the effect of carbon dioxide according to the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
and by altering the color of the planet's surface thus influencing the albedo effect.
The albedo effect refers to the amount of radiation reflected by the surface of the planet.
and heat back into space than darker forests. Climate scientists have suggested that the Pliocene epoch might provide a glimpse of the planet's future
if humankind is unable to curb carbon dioxide emissions. During the Pliocene the two main factors believed to influence the climate--atmospheric CO2 concentrations
The answer might be found in highly reactive compounds that existed long before humans lived on the planet Unger says.
Using the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Model-E2 global Earth system model the researchers were able to simulate the terrestrial ecosystem emissions and atmospheric chemical composition of the Pliocene and the preindustrial era.
At first I'd tell it to go five spaces to the left or five spaces to the right and things typically wouldn't go as planned.
After weeks of programming I eventually got to the point where the robot could paint shapes and lines in a particular color.
These cities lack areas that could be converted into conventional green spaces and thus there is an increasing interest in green roof systems.
and scholars to understand urban green spaces as not only providers of services but also providers of material products.
to green spaces beyond the boundaries of urban settlements. These planners argued that public spaces with large amounts of vegetation were essential elements of healthy functional cities.
 These new landscapes emphasized aesthetics relaxation recreation and refuge reinforcing emerging notions about which humanâ#ature interactions belonged in the city and which in the country.
They began to experiment with green space policies that explicitly seek to integrate social economic and ecological concerns in urban environments recognizing
and other vegetation that characterize these spaces are important for meeting the community and ecosystem needs of low income urban neighborhoods that do not have large expanses of undeveloped land
or existing parks These shifts in the conceptualization of urban nature and human roles in it have to some extent created openings for the return of productive practices such as farming horticulture and beekeeping to public green spaces.
Of the four cities Seattle and Philadelphia are the furthest along in rethinking the role of foraging in urban green spaces.
and scholars to understand urban green spaces as not only providers of services but also providers of material products.
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