He divided a flight cage into two compartments. One was naturally dark and the other was illuminated by a sodium street lamp the most common form of street lighting in the world.
'when defecating seeds while flying. By reducing foraging of fruit-eating bats in lit areas light pollution is likely to reduce seed rain he commented.
The technology could also supply a source of renewable jet fuel required by recent European union aviation emission regulations.
Commercialization will lead to the widespread use of proprietary Vertimass technology for low cost production of sustainable transportation fuels for aircraft and heavy and light duty vehicles from multiple sources of biomass on a large scale.
but new crevassing of the ice prevented the team landing by plane at many planned locations.
This powerful analytical method using mass spectrometric detection is called CI-API-TOF (chemical ionization--atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
#Drone shows new view of energy coal ash spillaerial images captured by a drone aircraft provide a new look at the extent of contaminants leaked into a North carolina river from a Duke energy coal ash dump as concerns about water pollution grow
A drone aircraft operated by researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Energy Environment
and biology graduate student Max Messinger attached a camera to their unmanned aircraft and flew a grid-like pattern over the ash pond taking pictures at regular intervals.
or a busy airport where cold viruses and other germs circulate freely flowers are common gathering places where pollinators such as bees
The discovery of hyperuniformity in a biological system could mean that the state is more common than previously thought said Remi Dreyfus a researcher at the Pennsylvania-based Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter lab (COMPASS) co-run by the University of Pennsylvania
and converted the data into probabilities--balloon-shaped areas where the valence electrons were most likely to be found.
That it's revealing a consistent picture of our neighborhood in the galaxy with what IBEX has revealed gives us vastly more confidence that
How magnetic fields of galaxies order 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.
and it was only with the arrival of the Vikings that fish became a significant part of our diet.
Correcting for this artifact in the data Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md
The above story is provided based on materials by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Traffickers are slashing down forests often within protected areas to make way for clandestine landing strips and roads to move drugs
and landing strips that traffickers create in the remote forests. The infusion of drug cash into these areas helps embolden resident ranchers land speculators
The technology is a low-cost version of the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) systems that are a standard feature of most neonatal units in the developed world.
The findings are based on weather information collected at the regional airport and by researchers in the field as well as from penguin counts.
Local Cumbrian folklore speaks of connections between the Herdwicks and Viking settlers. The coming together of the genetic evidence with historical evidence of Viking raiders and traders in the Wadden islands and adjacent coastal regions suggests the folklore is right
but extends the connection to Rough Fells. One outcome of the scientific study united the three hill breeds.
and helicopters have been known to explode if they discharge suddenly when landing. Everything that moves through the air develops static charge
and elsewhere in Massachusetts including flowering dates butterfly flight times and migratory bird arrivals. Founded in 1839 Boston University is recognized an internationally institution of higher education and research.
We knew that vultures use efficient soaring flight keen eyesight and even used information from each other to find food
At transport nodes such as airports and border crossings we work with governments to help detect
eschewing plastic for aircraft-grade aluminum. Inside, the team replaced  step tracking with goal tracking.
Large towers that use  aquaponic growing systems--I'm imagining a larger version of this already functional aeroponic garden at O'hare airport in Chicago--grow food in various micro-climates at different
Airports'newest groundskeepers: farm animalshave trouble napping on planes? Fly out of Atlanta and you may soon be able to lull yourself into a slumber by counting sheep.
At airports such as Atlanta â¢s Hartsfield-Jackson International, officials have added the animals to their grounds crew as a low-cost way to cut down on weeds
and other hard-to-mow grasses on airport property. After just two days of testing the sheep â¢s weed-whacking abilities in a test acre lot near Atlanta's airport,
the animals had eaten through nearly half of the high-flying weeds in the area. Since the airport has about 3
000 acres of land to maintain, the sheep could prove extremely useful in making sure vegetation doesn â¢t grow into habitats for birds
and other animals that might endanger airport activities, WXIA of Atlanta notes. Hartsfield-Jackson isn â¢t the only airport catching on to the idea of animals as lawnmowers.
Seattle and San francisco have tried similar methods in the past and officials at Chicago O â¢Hare are currently contemplating the use of goats to cut down on weeds.
The Chicago Department of Aviation recently put out a bid calling for someone to supply goats to eat up some weeds surrounding O â¢Hare
a practice that could potentially cut down on the use of high-polluting, heavy machinery in hard-to-mow areas.
In Atlanta, airport officials are crunching numbers to see if the sheep can keep the land tidy more efficiently
You get to the airport, you need to check in, and you don't have any bags to check.
were modeled these after airport or ATM kiosks, or was this different enough that it had to be built from the ground up?
Borrowing the kiosk to create the same type of efficiency the airlines and banking industries use.
We survive without a ticket agent at the airport, a cashier at the grocery store and a teller at the bank.
Briggo will open a kiosk at Austin Bergstrom International airport this fall. To be fair Briggo executives are hardly out to eradicate the human barista.
and retail outlets in more than 25 airports around the globe, saw the Briggo kiosk on the University of Texas campus
and envisioned it at the local airport. It â¢s a good fit in Austin, with all the innovation and high-tech there,
The kiosk is slated for a central location across from Gate 13 in the American airlines terminal.
the airport has five other coffee shop options. We're going to promote Briggo pre-security, Mahlum said.
Smithsonian tracks bird strikes for military, airline industrydr. Carla Dove using a comparison microscope to study feather structure in the Birds Division at the Museum of Natural history.
It didn t take her long to realize that the work performed in this little lab is a big help to the military, the aviation industry and of course, the birds.
if we know the birds on the airfield, Dove said, they can change the habitat.
Not only can bird strikes threaten the safety of a flight, but they can cause millions of dollars in damage to the aircraft.
So the Federal Aviation Administration and the military fund the Smithsonian lab in order to learn more about the strikes
and how to prevent them. The two groups have separate databases where Dove team logs each incident.
Commercial airlines report strikes on a voluntary basis; for the military, it mandatory. What we do know about strikes is that most happen at takeoff and landing, typically at the engine,
the record for the highest strike goes to a Griffon vulture flying over Africa. But there a lot that we don t know
In fact pilots don t necessarily know that a strike even happens; it often those cleaning the jet engines who find the debris, called snarge.
and sent to the airfield where the strike occurred. This information helps biologists build airfield habitats that are unfriendly to the types of birds causing problems.
If you let the grass grow, that will deter some birds, Dove said. But that may not work at another airfield.
You might have long grasses that attract mice and a bird that eats mice. You have to know how to manage it.
Dove and her team worked on the remains of the geese from the 2009 US AIRWAYS landing in the Hudson river.
trying to determine from DNA samples exactly how many geese hit the plane. The remains of the geese were hand-delivered to the Smithsonian within two days of the accident,
the public became more aware of the danger that birds can pose to aviation safety.
and Kennedy airports â some residents were appalled. I asked Dove, who goes birding in her spare time,
but when it comes to the airports, they have got to control these geese, she said.
Airplane engines â which go through bird tests â are designed to handle strikes with certain weights of birds
if that largely because more airfields are reporting, or because there are more strikes. She arrived at the lab in 1989,
Turns out it was remained all that from a Brazilian freetail bat from a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento, a Boeing 737 that departed at dusk.
So what does Dove do when she boards a commercial jet? Naturally: We re always looking out the window for birds,
Southwest Airlines unveils first'green plane';'saves 9, 500 gallons of fuel per yearsouthwest Airlines has announced the world's first green plane, a Boeing 737-700 that's 472 lbs. lighter than a conventional model and saves
9, 500 gallons of jet fuel per year. It's no secret that the airplanes are some of the worst polluting transportation methods available.
According to Outside. com, airlines account for about two percent of all glacier-melting, polar bear-killing emissions released into our carbon-choked friendly skies.
That article cites Southwest as the leading U s. airline for carbon footprint awareness, and notes that the company spent $175 million to retrofit the navigation systems on its planes to calculate tighter flight paths
and thus reduce jet fuel consumption by six percent or about 90 million gallons a year.
So it's no surprise that Southwest is again at the forefront of an industry that, in the U s.,lags behind the world in efficiency.
Seat covers-two new products that will be tested on the aircraft seats, offering more than twice the durability than the current leather seats as well as a weight savings of almost two pounds per seat.
when the plane would take flight
Spreading holiday cheer around Parisian gardensparis This year 100 drop of points will be available citywide to residents looking to recycle their Christmas trees.
How sustainable is it to fly by airplane to Copenhagen, Denmark for the United nations conference on climate change?
According to Terrapass. com, a flight from Los angeles (LAX) to Copenhagen (CPH) making two stops is 11,213 miles
I m choosing a flight with two stops because as of yet, I still don t have enough funds to make the trip.
The absolute cheapest flight I ve been able to find is on LOT (Polish airlines) and has stops in Chicago and Warsaw,
Even if I have to fly LOT Airlines. Terrapass is a great website which allows you to calculate your carbon footprint and purchase carbon offsets,
While I can t calculate my carbon footprint for the short cab ride to the airport (less than 10 miles),
and paneers (bags that clip onto the bike s rear rack) and now use my bike almost exclusively for local errands within a 5-mile radius. Terrapass says a flight emitting approximately 6,
My flight to Copenhagen will be green. But will it be sustainable?(Is it even achievable?
Imagine a plane on a search and rescue mission, finding its way perfectly over unchartered terrain and back home.
to build a putative pilot that can make decisions about what it senses rather than just carry out preprogrammed task,
To cut fire risk, San francisco airport hires 400 goatsshrubs and small trees around airports could become fire hazards for nearby homes
and should be removed every spring. San francisco International airport (SFO) has an additional problem: they can t use humans
or machines for the job because two vulnerable critters live there. AP reports. Populations of the endangered San francisco garter snake and the threatened California red-legged frog have made airport land their home.
That's why for the last five years, SFO has hired a herd from Goats R Us to clear brush in a remote corner of the airport.
After traveling 30 miles from their home in Orinda, California, Mr. Fuzzy, Cookie, Mable, Alice, and nearly 400 other goats spent two weeks in June cutting away a 20-foot firebreak on the west side of the airport.
We're pleased with our organic process for weed abatement airport spokesman Doug Yakel said. The airport paid $14, 900 for the service this year.
Chicago's O'hare International airport (ORD) has requested bids for goats to clear brush in an out of the way area of a 7, 000-acre property.
They're expecting them sometime this summer. Goats R Us has about 4, 000 active goats on their payroll.
These employees can also be found working away on the side of California freeways, at state parks, under long-distance electric lines,
but planes have very long life cycles. The aluminum industry is likely gearing up for growth based both on the trend toward more aluminum in cars generally,
and those who said such homes will still remain a marketing mirage. Some 51%agreed with the statement that by 2020
most of their comments suggest that many still see the well-connected home of the future as a marketing mirage.
When the Finn missed his flight connection he asked Baltzley to choose the products they would use.
including thermal stability specification tests conducted under some conditions where conventional jet fuels would fail,
and walk by the plants every day would be encouraged to act as stewards for the plants and ensure they remain healthy.
This week, Lockheed martin is debuting an unmanned military drone that could be useful for information-gathering based on these silent, strong, one-winged, helicopter-like flyers.
and flies with a cyclic lift motion like a helicopter. It has two moving parts
Reducing the pressure above the wing's surface like this creates a mini sideways tornado
Troops could also use them to get ground-level images from airplanes in addition to the aerial images typically used now.
They improve upon drones currently used by the military in that they can hover in place like helicopters
Watch robots climb trees, helicopter in and sniff bugsrobots do the darndest things. For your pre-long-weekend amusement,
Second is a rolling robot that can helicopter in at a moment's notice. Yes, the idea of transformers is not new,
but a roller/chopper hybrid is. The robot s researchers, Alex Kossett and IEEE Fellow Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos of the University of Minnesota's Center for Distributed Robotics, are working on an upgraded version in
because we have night hawks flying overhead. They're a key species that makes sounds at night in Midwestern urban areas.
The monkeys will wearing radiation-measuring collars as they go deep into forests oe an area that has only been studied from the air via helicopters
Five Virginia schools and one school in Hawaii are currently participating in the pilot with planned expansions to include schools collaborating with Hofstra University in New york
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For the next year, Amtrak's Heartland Flyer passenger train will make the 206-mile trip between Fort worth
however, I'd rather Americans just choose trains over planes and cars when they can.
Heartland Flyer
Beijing invests millions in laser writing scheme for pork productsbeijing-Â With a few days left before Chinese New Year,
and designs and develops space flight hardware. It currently has two piece of its hardware on the International Space station and two on the Space shuttle mission.
and spiders in space and why she wouldnt be a good candidate for space flight.
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Developments in the rail industry furthered along more in the shipping and aviation industries, which in turn impacted other markets,
Trains and planes and ships revolutionized the food market, he said. It really transformed the way people move
'After inventing aviation, the U s. was able to recover to lead the aviation industry once again,
Chu said. The same ought to happen in energy. We can become us again, he said.
That s more than the airline industry generates. With 2 billion more people expected to inhabit cities where tall buildings are jammed together for more housing in the next 20 years,
one of the two logging companies involved in the pilot test. With the closest mill 180 miles away, it's too costly to do much with the harvested timber except sell it as firewood in grocery stores,
cooling, use of company vehicles and a huge reduction in employee air travel. HP's update about its energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions goals sees it setting new goals for its consumption reduction goals,
which just published a new study that predicts the drone aircraft industry may potentially create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into U s. skies.
For example, one industry that has taken the lead in reducing paper consumption is the airline industry.
E-tickets have replaced quickly paper tickets for many airlines, including Delta and United. The concert industry has started also to use e-tickets,
Sydney to London on the Plastic Fantastic powered flight Move over graphene: Bamboo is the next wonder material Friends of Earth rain on Lufthansa biofuels parade Biofuels fly mainstream:
Lufthansa passenger flights taking off Airbus and Europe map jet biofuel goal Will the real biofuel Lindbergh please stand up?
Honeywell: The Lindbergh of aviation biofuels
Food of the future: can'Frankenfish'survive politics? Sometime this summer or soon after, the federal Food and Drug Administration may finally approve the first-ever genetically modified animal for human consumption--a fast-growing Atlantic salmon that has taken 17 years to reach the threshold of American consensus. The man to thank
--or blame, depending on how you feel about these things--is a former Soviet biologist who is bankrolling the endeavor with an eye on becoming a U s. salmon farmer.
looking for a non-food feedstock to produce fuel for jets and automobiles. In the Pacific Northwest, forest biofuel has been touted as a potential job creator,
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Friends of Earth rains on Lufthansa biofuel paradefriends of the Earth today condemned Lufthansa s use of biofuels on commercial flights as greenwashing that makes an environmentally destructive practice appear eco-friendly.
Lufthansa is painting itself green with biofuels ââ oe but these flights are anything
but environmentally friendly, said Robbie Blake, biofuels campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe. Biofuels exacerbate poverty and hunger,
He issued his statement prior to the scheduled 11:15 a m. take off of Lufthansa flight LH013 from Hamburg-to-Frankfurt.
Lufthansa plans to use the fuel for 6 months on 8 daily trips between the two cities, for a total of 1200 flights.
Likewise, KLM-Air france plans to fly 200 regular flights between Amsterdam and Paris using biofuels in September.
Yesterday, Finnair announced that it plans to test biofuels on at least 3 passenger flights between Helsinki and Amsterdam.
Airlines say biofuels can shrink the industry s carbon footprint because they do not emit CO2 the way conventional hydrocarbon jet fuels ââ oetypically kerosene-do.
Lufthansa says the 1200 flights will save 1500 tons o CO2. But Foe points out that jet biofuels can actually increase carbon emissions
With partial funding from the German government, Lufthansa has purchased 800 tons of blend from Finland s Neste Oil for the 6-month, â 6. 6 million biofuel program.
Foe claims that the jatropha in Neste s Lufthansa mix comes from Mozambique, and that it signals a land grab there and in other African countries.
Foe biofuel campaigner Kenneth Richter added that airlines overstate the environmental friendliness of jatropha. Although the crop can grow on degraded soil
By one estimate, jatropha would use up the equivalent of 35%of Germany s arable land to meet Lufthansa s 2025 biofuel target, Foe noted.
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Our aircraft engines plant in Cincinnati. A healthcare facility in Europe. Now we have a cool in-house system where we track
and are greater than those of all  cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.
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Those pilots will be combined and expanded with the objective of breaking ground on a commercial scale project by 2016.
Fortunately, a friend loaned Ned an airplane. Unfortunately, the motor exploded. Fortunately, there was a parachute in the airplane.
Unfortunately, there was a hole in the parachute. And so on. Such it is with high oil prices.
even as air travel has become less convenient and more unpleasant. Transit-hub based bus service enjoyed 6 percent growth in 2010,
on an airline, tickets for the same trip start at $360. Smaller operators offering more deluxe accommodations, such as Limoliner, Lux Bus America and New york Shuttle also expanded service in 2011.
Scheduled airline departures shrank slightly in 2011 while passenger seat-miles increased a modest 1. 5 percent.
as is done for intercity rail and airplane travel. Airlines As ever, high oil prices hurt the airlines most of All the last time global oil prices were this high was in the first half of 2008,
when I detailed the carnage in the airline sector. By October of that year, when I heard airline industry expert Michael Boyd explain at an energy conference that every airline in the world is obsolete at $100 a barrel,
30 small carriers had gone bust. Now we are seeing the next tranche of air carriers being wiped out by intolerably high fuel prices.
Southwest Airlines, one of the few carriers who hedged their oil price risks properly in 2008
and avoided heavy losses, said yesterday that it will not earn a profit in the first quarter of this year.
Air france-KLM reported a $1 billion loss for 2011, saying that it had not been able to offset the rising cost of jet fuel.
Australia's Qantas Airways reported last month that high fuel costs had halved its profit in the first half of 2011
Also this week, Israel's El al airlines announced higher fuel surcharges, eliminated its service to Brazil
and iced its plan to expand service to the U s. Of the six major airlines in India,
and the Indian airline industry as a whole is expected to realize a $2. 5 to $3 billion loss for the 2011 fiscal year.
South carolina-based public charter airline Direct Air suspended its operations yesterday without notice when it ran out of money to pay for fuel,
Unfortunately, there is little that the airlines can do to accommodate an era of permanently higher fuel prices, other than raising their own prices accordingly.
we can easily imagine air travel returning to its roots as a mode of travel that only the wealthy can afford.
Indeed, Simon Fraser University urban studies professor Anthony Perl, the author of the 2008 book Transport Revolutions, predicts that no more than 25 airports will be functional worldwide by 2025.
Trucking and delivery services Next to airlines, long-haul trucking companies are arguably the most vulnerable to fuel price shocks.
German airports use honeybees to sniff out air quality
Hong kong cracks down on trade in baby formulamilk formula is sold alongside Chinese herbs. HONG KONG--Hong kong parents have been contending with a frustrating shortage of infant milk formula.
The San francisco start-up expects to install a similar array at Sicily's Pantelleria Airport by the end of 2011.
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