that's equal to 6. 4 billion pounds or as much as the weight of 1. 4 million new Ford F150 pickup trucks.
Top down studies take air samples from aircraft or towers. These types of studies offer an accurate measurement of overall methane emissions
Car-mounted devices sample the air and can locate leaks and estimate their magnitude from a distance which avoids the challenge of acquiring property owner permission that bedevils direct on-site measurement.
#Equipment Megaloads"on Roads Add Twist to Tar Sands Debate (Op-Ed)" Bobby Mcenaney is senior lands analyst at the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC) and deputy director
For several years now NRDC has helped local groups fight the transport of massive truckloads of tar sands mining equipment through one of the nation's most remote and scenic parts of the United states shipments
To put that in perspective one could place five typical diesel semitrailers lengthwise and three deep to approximate the relative footprint of a typical megaload truck shipment.
So instead the company came up with a plan to send hundreds of these megaload trucks up U s. Route 12 through the Clearwater Wild
which travels along a no-less-pristine and isolated 7000-foot Lost Trail Pass that intersects the borders of Idaho and Montana.
10 Least Visited National parks In the last few months oil-industry equipment truckers have committed between eight to ten megaloads to test out Route 93.
and allowed further transportation of the loads with the Forest Service ultimately backing down. But on the behest of business owners the Nez Perce and regionally environmental organizations U s. Chief District Judge Winmill ruled that the Forest Service acted unlawfully by not managing for the potential impacts to federal resources caused by these shipments
Now 70 days from Umatilla Oregon the mega-load has traveled 900 miles averaging 13 miles per day.
and then in 600 more its tar sands destination. In November Omega Morgan predicted 20 days for the entire trip.
As these megaloads make their way up Highway 93 I remember a popular bumper sticker in Montana that morosely joked Pray for me I drive Hwy 93!
This was such a common catchphrase even the Montana Department of transportation played off 93's reputation by highlighting the bumper sticker on its website the same agency now in charge of permitting megaload shipments.
These are extremely dangerous roads where snowstorms and icy weather can turn nasty at the drop of a hat.
This is no place for megaloads of truckloads of oil-processing equipment to travel in the first place. It is yet another example of why we need to reign in the climate-threatening operations of the tar sands industry not shipments of oil equipment through our nation's environmental treasures.
Reports from the Edge a companion series to This American Land on PBS produced the video about the megaloads fight along a scenic road in Idaho.
#Most Interesting Science News articles of the Week From a melted road at Yellowstone to growling seahorses a medieval case of downs syndrome to Nikola Tesla's birthday here are some of the coolest stories in Science this week.
Not the polar ice caps but a road. A much-travelled route at Yellowstone national park has been closed
Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening. Researchers believe these are the beginning signs of the flipping of the magnetic poles yet it is weakening faster than expected.
took on the features we see today with galaxies full of stars surrounded by planetary system.
or 9 billion stars in our galaxy with Earthlike planets about 5 percent of stars making the odds very high for intelligent life elsewhere.
and traveling about 10000 mph (16100 kph) when it hit triggering large fires a global winter
This Nordic grog predates the Vikings. It was found buried in tombs alongside warriors and priestesses and is now available at liquor stores across the United states thanks to a reconstruction effort by Patrick Mcgovern a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Delaware-based Dogfish Head Craft
How Off-road Tech Aids Conservation Google earth and Google street view have made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to explore some of the world's most spectacular destinations right from their computer tablet or smartphone.
Now homebodies and wannabe globetrotters can dive into the Great Barrier reef uncover the history of the Roman Colosseum and even climb Mount everest for free and without the airport hassles.
But the search-engine giant's mapping and imaging technology has uses beyond navigation and armchair travel.
Google usually uses camera-equipped cars to take images for its Street view but because the Rio Negro region is inaccessible by car the researchers had to come up with an alternative method.
To capture the images the teams strapped a camera onto a bicycle and pedaled it down dirt paths through the forests
and they even mounted it onto a boat to collect images of a section of the Rio Negro the Amazon's largest tributary Google explained on one of its Outreach pages.
and more portable than the camera used on the bike. This will enable us to run Street view to farther places and show more about our largest natural asset:
Blebbing is like blowing up little balloons on the edges of cells which often precede cell death.
Amazing Dinosaur Illustrations Last of the diplodocids Gallina and his collagues excavated the fossil during three trips to Patagonia in 2010 2012 and 2013.
She then got mud stuck in her airways and tried to blow it out of her trunk.
and couldn't clear her airway Fisher told Live Science. It was just a matter of minutes before she would have lost consciousness Fast-flowing river Khroma was also healthy
Although a less-frequent cause of spread lice can travel from one person to another via shared clothing and accessories such as hats brushes and hair accessories.
Last week we piled onto snowmobiles and bright-red Pisten Bullies (vehicles and gear in Antarctica tend to be red
or orange to make them easier to find in a rescue) and headed out with the divers to collect more juvenile fish samples.
More than an hour later we arrived at our destination: a tiny heated shed plopped on top of a large hole drilled in the middle of the Ross Sea ice.
On previous trips the divers had carefully spatulaed up batches of dragonfish eggs extraordinary pearlescent orbs laid on a single rock.
On this trip the dive team gathered about 200 juvenile emerald rock cod primarily using little green fishing nets the kind you d use in a child s aquarium.
#Bizarre Dinosaur Had 4'Wings, 'Long Tail Feathers The largest four-winged dinosaur known has been found
as if it had two pairs of wings. Its fossil was unearthed in 2012 in Liaoning province in northeastern China
whether a four-wing body is something unique to microraptorines or something the common ancestor of birds and microraptorines had that was lost later in the bird lineage.
It's surprising to think of Changyuraptor flying because it's so large maybe the size of a peacock Chiappe said.
The tail tells us Changyuraptor could have generated a fair amount of lift to slow its flying
If more specimens are found in the future they may add to researchers understanding of the animal's flying capabilities Chiappe said.
#Capturing a Comet-Galaxy Conjunction Victor Rogus is an amateur astronomer and this is the eighth in his series of exclusive Space. com posts about amateur astronomy.
the conjunction of comet Pan STARRS (C/2011 L4) and the great galaxy Andromeda (M-31.
That meant tearing around the backwoods gravel roads in a pickup truck with a chainsaw and a compass searching out the required azimuth readings on a standard compass.
Because the comet and galaxy were circumpolar (continually visible throughout the evening or in this case dipping below the western horizon to re appear in the east before dawn.)
The Andromeda Galaxy can be seen many nights out of the year but those special times when this galaxy is adorned by a comet just about as bright as itself makes the effort well worth it and
I was pleased very with my results. Indeed the skies provide wondrous sights a lot of planning and preparation will allow you to see them
The Only Venus Transits I'll Ever See. The views expressed are those of the author
Supplement makers market Vitamin b12 as an energy and endurance booster particularly for athletes. People also take Vitamin b12 to improve their mood and concentration as well as their immune system.
I was fortunate to lead a few nature hikes during my trip and the attendees found more millipedes than I did.
though mistakenly think leads to a major environmental impact due to the reduced travel miles to transport the food).
Examinations of airborne scans of three New england towns revealed networks of old stone walls building foundations old roads dams and other features many of which long were forgotten.
despite for example the fact that wolves commonly travel near and among livestock while completely ignoring them.
and jellyfish were on the menu here at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Saturday night (March 15).
former NASA astronaut Mike LÃ pez-Alegrã a told Live Science last week ahead of the party.
retired NASA astronaut Franklin Chang DÃ az; and planetary scientist Maria Zuber. Physicist Stephen Hawking even addressed the crowd via telecast.
and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have followed the chimpanzees in the study for years.
Liturgusa fossetti honors James Stephen Fossett an aviator and explorer who died in an air crash in 2007.
Longtime growers are even pulling in new talent with rã sumã s featuring university professorships and stints at NASA.
Denver Relief just hired a former NASA scientist Neil Yorio who worked on lighting technology for long-duration space missions to develop new options for marijuana growers.
Claire Mccaskill D-Mo. chairwoman of the U s. Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation's Subcommittee on Consumer Protection Product Safety and Insurance led a panel on Tuesday (June 17
Sussman's art practice really came into focus however after a serendipitous moment during a trip to Japan.
The literal journey was this trip to Japan that I took 10 years ago. It was 2004...
#When you re traveling you have these expectations of what a place is going to be like before you get there.
But I pull in on the train station and there's Starbucks and Kinkos and I'm like Oh this just isn't what
I took the train down there. And then it was a 3 -or 4-hour ferry ride to get to the island of Yakushima.
It ended up being one of the most rewarding travel experiences I'd ever had in part because
but the idea was probably a couple of years in the making considering the time both before and after the trip.
I was hanging out at Spacex NASA JPL and Caltech talking to astrophysicists and engineers and just trying to get some ideas about our human perspective
When I was discussing the idea with an astrophysicist at JPL he upped the ante
and said What about dead galaxies? I was like Wow I hadn't thought about that.
and demand across source transit and destination countries. The study was published today (Aug 18) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The flight response and escape suggests a predator-prey relationship between the two beasts the researchers said.
Farther north the Carlton Complex the largest fire in Washington state's history is still smoldering behind containment lines.
and recreation-based jobs the tourist dollars that ultimately flowed elsewhere the drop in property values and the deflation of tax collections.
Deborah Herlax Enos is certified a nutritionist and a coach and weight loss expert in the Seattle area with more than 20 years of experience.
Original Cheerios used to provide 25 percent of the daily value of riboflavin or Vitamin b2 per serving according to the trade publication Food Navigator.
The companies declined to explain the vitamin loss to Food Navigator but the reason likely has to do with the difficulty of sourcing vitamins from non-genetically modified sources.
Vitamins are tough to certify as GMO-free however according to Food Navigator. They may be manufactured from genetically modified organisms
These ridges far from Antarctic research stations could only be reached by air in this case a helicopter launched from the icebreaker R/V Polarstern.
As flaming balls of lava and ash rain down on the streets of Pompeii the renegade gladiator Milo gallops on horseback after a chariot ridden by his beloved Cassia who has been kidnapped by an evil Roman senator.
and its residents according to Rosaly Lopes a volcanologist at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Lopes was not a consultant on the film.)
The aerial shots of Pompeii in the movie were real helicopter shots with computer graphics projected over them Anderson told Live Science.
The new Global Forest Watch will update monthly at a medium resolution with data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra and Aqua satellites.
but every year the map updates with much finer-grained imagery from NASA's Landsat program.
Lead study author Fernando Espã rito-Santo a research scientist at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena Calif. combined satellite data airborne lidar (laser surface imagery)
We found that large natural disturbances the sort not captured by plots have only a tiny effect on carbon cycling throughout the Amazon study co-author Sassan Saatchi of JPL said in a statement.
and lining them up like parked cars the industry's trajectory is clear if it wants to remain a competitive American enterprise.
and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to defecate providing a breeding ground for moths that live in the animals'fur
#Straw Could Power Jets Straw is thought often of as a fuel for horses but if a French research project pans out passenger jets could soon fuel up with biofuels derived from this agricultural byproduct.
The Probio3 project began last July with financing from a French economic stimulus program. The effort aims to use straw to create a biofuel that can be mixed with kerosene in a 50/50 blend.
The program will also look at using sawdust and wood shavings to power aviation. Biofuels have developed in response to the high costs of oil production
Meanwhile spikes in food prices over the past few years have tampered government enthusiasm for biofuels that divert food crops even as the European union intends to reach an annual output of 2 million tons of aviation biofuels by 2020.
In order to make agricultural waste into a suitable fuel for jet engines manufacturers would first need to break it down into sugars mixed with yeast
When mixed with kerosene theses hydrocarbons can be burned in jet engines. The hard part will be finding the most suitable microorganisms
and the dependability of the fuel source could insulate airlines from spikes in fuel prices c
If just 10 percent of Chinese families making more than $16000 per year buy one two-ounce ivory carving about the size of a piece of hotel soap 32600 elephants must die.
The larger global community has credible evidence that where national park rangers and community ecoguards are out patrolling
Western nations warned their nationals against all but essential travel to Madagascar and tourism to the world s fourth largest island plummeted overnight.
There are currently 106 species of lemurs in Madagascar (new species continue to be discovered) and their natural forest habitats especially suffered from this political turmoil.
This vast forest is rich in biodiversity including no fewer than 13 lemur species. With good transport links to the capital
Figuring out where insects spend their time how far they travel and what they are doing has traditionally been very difficult to do in real time.
The sensors are tiny radio frequency identification sensors that work in a similar way to a vehicle s e-tag recording
We hypothesize that isolation of the prehistoric Tiburã n bighorn sheep population resulting from sea level rise combined with subsequent drivers that act on small populations including inbreeding overharvesting by hunters
and increase inflammation of the airways in people who have asthma. Similarly people with sensitive sinuses can be irritated by pollens.
and cool in temperatures from 60 to 70 F 16 to 21 C). Chinchillas do not get along well
The researchers also discovered that the trees with thin layers of bark have lots of lenticular channels small airways that allow gas exchange between the bark and the outside air.
and congested airways that accompanies it. Hay fever or seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis to give it its official name is caused
and sore eyes that make hay fever a misery In the longer term airways can become inflamed and blocked causing permanent nasal stuffiness snoring lack of sleep and susceptibility to infections and sinusitis.
Because the susceptible cells line the lower airways as well as the nose patients with hay fever and asthma often find that their asthma is worse during the pollen months
because histamine release in the airways causes them to constrict. This seasonal#or pollen#asthma can be quite severe.
and allows more pollens and other irritants into the airways which my make asthma more difficult to control.
*More people die every year from smoking than from murder AIDS suicide drugs car crashes and alcohol combined.
while piloting remotely operated underwater vehicles beneath the ice sheet: The underside of the ice looked fuzzy.
A world away but seemingly from the same tale is Tinkerbella nana an unbelievably small parasitoid wasp with feathery delicate wings.
Electronics and spacecraft parts are manufactured in clean rooms the latter because scientists would rather not find life on mars only to learn humans put it there.
and destroy some of the state's most coveted recreational tourist attractions and they didn't. They are the fires that didn't make the headlines.
Half of them are strict conservation areas some appropriate for tourists others only for biological research.
But we are confident that the government will be able to fully take on the responsibility down the road.
But when the weather gets warm it's tempting to let fresh air and cool breezes into your home or car.
#Bumble Inn: New england Gets New'Hotel'for Pollinators An unusual hotel in New england is generating a lot of buzz in scientific circles.
The newly constructed bee hotel at the University of New hampshire's Woodman Farm isn't much to look at with its cinder block floors
and pine cone-littered suites but for the region's pollinators it's as appealing as any five-star resort.
The bee hotel is at the center of the first-ever comprehensive study of New england's bee population.
The bee hotel at Woodman Farm represents one part of this project with other monitoring sites at NHAES facilities also contributing much-needed data.
The researchers plan to use genomic screening on the winged guests of the bee hotel to identify which species suffer low genetic variability.
or even extinction of a species. John Wraith NHAES director and dean of the College of Life sciences and Agriculture expressed enthusiasm for the bee hotel project and its related studies noting the impact that pollinators
because it can contribute to high ozone levels near the ground said NASA's Earth Observatory.
These effects have lent sometimes themselves to misconceptions perhaps most famously President Ronald Reagan's 1981 statement that trees pollute more than cars. 6 Politicians Who Got the Science Wrong
when gasoline and coal are burned Bryan Duncan an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told Earth Observatory.
During a recent trip to Utah I came across an iconic gnarly tree clinging to the top of the canyon wall at Dead Horse Point State Park and
#Three Foods That Help Prevent Slippery Roads This article was provided by Accuweather. com. Government agencies in the United states spend $2. 3 billion every year to battle winter weather conditions according to a study sponsored by the New york state Department of transportation.
In their responsibility to keep roads open and safe during snowfall transportation departments continue to investigate
and implement new sometimes unusual strategies. Unconventional sources of salt brines such as beet juice potato and cheese byproducts are decreasing costs lowering environmental impacts
These agricultural-based brines were rated highly by many states surveyed noting the high ice melting capabilities and the overall safety impacts on wintry roads.
Accuweather. com spoke with several transportation department officials about their seemingly offbeat solutions for winter weather conditions.
Is Winter Driving Safer With Four-Wheel All-Wheel Drive Vehicles? Winter Weather Center Beet juice As an agricultural byproduct created through the sugar beet process beet juice brine is a useful tool for many highway departments.
and technology to provide cost effective tools to reach our goal of providing safe passable roadways and bridges for the traveling public.
Jerry Hatcher maintenance director for the Tennessee Department of transportation (TDOT) said That's when someone realized it could be used as a deicing agent.
Clearing snow and ice from roadways is of the utmost importance to provide the highest level of safety for travelers.
Unconventionality aside these innovative brines are lowering costs lessening environmental impacts and providing safer roads.
In recent years the international community has recognized that Vietnamese citizens have emerged as key players in global illegal wildlife trade as traders transporters traffickers
In February France pulverized more than 15000 pieces of ivory mostly trinkets seized at airports over a 20-year span.
I guard your property a vineyard near the village Panoouei from the present day until vintage and transport so that there be no negligence and on the condition that
One 2010 experiment by Consumer Reports tested 15 protein drinks purchased online or from stores in the New york metro area.
The Hadley circulation features air rising near the equator and traveling toward higher latitudes where it sinks
The more intense flow tends to fence off cold Arctic air keeping incursions like last winter s Polar Vortex episodesfrom impacting the northern parts of the country.
The tendency toward cooler conditions in the Pacific over the past couple of decades could be the main driver of the slowdown in the rate of warming over the same time period as such conditions cause the ocean to store more of that building heat.#
I would shovel my car out and make it to work only to shovel some more to ensure the animals were fed
As Liu Bei consolidated his position becoming the King of Shu Guan was promoted to the position of General of the Van#something that he was unhappy about
The EPA could also consider requiring safety zones free of herbicides in and around farms to protect monarch-friendly habitat.
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and working to save the world's threatened elephants Sonja Van Tichelen European Regional Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in a statement.
and enriching organized crime syndicates the slaughter of elephants must be stopped Van Tichelen said. Belgium is set to join several other countries that recently destroyed their stockpiles of ivory.
Even many of the larger companies such as Fiat and Benetton are controlled still primarily by single families.
But after all of these years Mitchell's commitment to bald eagles is staying Alive with the beginning of the 2014 flight season in early March Byrd began the 38th year of his involvement in the aerial survey.
but the census flights remain a primary tool for keeping tabs on the population. The annual bald eagle assessment involves two rounds of flights.
The first the survey round begins in early March and involves systematically flying over all tributaries to check nests that we've recorded from previous years.
and breeding success. Three of us have been doing these flights together for 23 years. We make a good team.
An ex-fighter pilot flies the plane. Named Caton Alexander Shermer he goes by Capt. Fuzzzo.
Byrd sits in the copilot seat keeping the log and marking each nest. I'm the spotter.
and a supply of no. 2 pencils Byrd travels through eight hours of banks dives
Those lazy flying days of the'70s when nests were rare and a day's flying could be recorded on a single sheet are gone long.
The tremendous population recovery has made for intense flying days when we set goals of checking on 100 nests before breaking for lunch.
The census surveys have gotten pretty intense since the bald eagle population has recovered. Eagles mostly eat fish
These flights involve more than just keeping track of the numbers of breeding eagles in our territory.
and that's why it's so important to continue the research especially these annual census flights.
Still fresh are the memories of undertaking long heartbreaking flights without finding a single nest.
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