Lyuba's full-body CT scan which used an industrial scanner at a Ford testing facility in Michigan was the first of its kind for any mammoth.
They finally succeeded in October 2010 at Ford motor Co.'s Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory in Livonia Mich. using a scanner designed for finding flaws in vehicle transmissions.
and parking lots have lowered the amount of recharge thus contributing to the decline in water levels. There is a brighter note Ale said.
Produced by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) the position statement will be presented on July 9th 2014 at a meeting hosted by FIRS and the NCD Noncommunicable Disease Alliance Shared Drivers Shared Solutions:
In their new system a Remotely Operated Gardening Rover or ROGR travels around the habitat tending to a fleet of Smartpots or SPOTS
The findings of the study led by Edwin van Leeuwen of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in The netherlands are published in Springer's journal Animal Cognition.
In 2010 van Leeuwen first noticed how a female chimp named Julie repeatedly put a stiff strawlike blade of grass for no apparent reason in one or both of her ears.
On subsequent visits van Leeuwen saw that other chimpanzees in her group had started to do the same.
Van Leeuwen suggests that those animals that find a specific behavior somehow rewarding will continue to do
in order to obtain biologically relevant information says van Leeuwen. The fact that these behaviors can be arbitrary
what drivers make the fish come and go from Palmyra's lagoons. Very heavily used by mobile animals as breeding grounds
and bamboo researchers have found that by gradually changing the internal structure of metals they can make stronger tougher materials that can be customized for a wide variety of applications--from body armor to automobile parts.
and sea urchin--the area's two main grazers--has in fact been the key driver of coral decline in the region.
In a paper published recently in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical systems authors Kristen Harley Peter van Heijster Robert Marangell Graeme Pettet
Pests and pathogens currently not in the United states could be imported with Dracaena plant materials said Ariena H. C. van Bruggen corresponding author of the study published in Hortscience.
It is led by principal investigator Irva Hertz-Picciotto a MIND Institute researcher and professor and vice chair of the Department of public health Sciences at UC Davis. The majority of study participants live in the Sacramento Valley Central Valley and the greater San francisco bay Area.
and how much was applied Hertz-Picciotto said. What we saw were several classes of pesticides more commonly applied near residences of mothers
and may well be where these pesticides are operating and affecting neurotransmission Hertz-Picciotto said.
While it's impossible to entirely eliminate risks due to environmental exposures Hertz-Picciotto said that finding ways to reduce exposures to chemical pesticides particularly for the very young is important.
A team of computer scientists from the University of Lincoln UK is co-organising an international workshop on recent advances in agricultural robotics.
The above story is provided based on materials by University of Lincoln. The original article was written by Marie Daniels. Note:
and West Nile virus. One approach to controlling mosquitoes is to apply pesticides by spraying from planes or trucks over a large area.
In some cases different drivers reinforce one another increasing their impacts on forests. A big implication is that it's going to be harder to predict future changes to ecosystems
if they're being affected by several environmental drivers said Lovejoy. The researchers expect such changes to increase in the future.
In this case meeting climate and energy targets would be the main driver. The negative environmental effects of intensified use of forest resources would be weighed against
The structure has been created by academics from the University of Lincoln UK taking its inspiration from the University's Digital Capabilities garden which won Gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013.
#Decomposing logs show local factors undervalued in climate change predictionsa new Yale-led study challenges the long-held assumption that climate is the primary driver of how quickly organic matter decomposes in different regions
Since those local factors likely are the primary drivers of decomposition rates Bradford said they should be documented better
Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models--one that captures the main drivers of crop supply
Income is also set to eclipse population as the dominant driver of food security a historical first said Baldos.
We expect that the population driver will diminish relative to per capita income in the coming decades especially in the developing world he said.
The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income population
The original article was written by Natalie van Hoose. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Somewhere between 2003 and 2010 the upward trend in childhood obesity started to stall leveling off around 2007 said lead study author Christopher Ford M p h. of the department of nutrition at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill.
Ford and his co-authors examined food and beverage purchase data between 2000 and 2011 from nearly 43000 U s. households with a preschool-age child.
which there might have been less waste notes Ford the team identified the top 20 foods and beverages purchased per capita during that 11-year period.
and child-care centers Ford said. Hispanic households saw the smallest decrease in total calories purchased possibly due to less access to stores with bar-coded products and greater proportional spending on fruits and vegetables.
nut cropscalifornia's winter tule fog--hated by drivers but needed by fruit and nut trees--has declined dramatically over the past three decades raising a red flag for the state's multibillion dollar agricultural industry according to researchers at UC Berkeley.
or solid particles that come from hundreds of sources including trees volcanoes cars trucks and wood fires.
The role of methane as a driver of global warming is even more critical than this 40 percent value might indicate Howarth notes.
Chemical compounds containing reactive nitrogen are major drivers of air and water pollution worldwide and hence of diseases like asthma or cancer.
what techniques were effective in getting the non-users to consider adding Tofu to their shopping carts.
The study took place in the form of focus groups in areas of metro Phoenix with high WIC enrollment.
Other contributors are Naoko Yagishita and Toshihiro Nakajima of St. Marianna University School of medicine in Kawasaki Japan and Pak K. Wong of the UA College of Engineering.
Another possible alternative is to develop more fuel-efficient automobiles and significantly reduce the nation's demand for fuel as required by the 2012 CAFE standards.
(30 percent) Lincoln's sparrow (23 percent) and yellow palm warbler (20 percent) detected most often
two appeared stable and only Lincoln's sparrow and palm warbler appeared to be increasing in the Adirondack landscape.
To reach these locations we occasionally had to drive for two days then continue on motorbikes for several hours before embarking on a 20 to 30 kilometres hike during
There's only so much research you can do speed at the of a bicycle. Oceanographers have made up some of the observational deficit by contracting with shipping lines to gather data along commercial routes.
While they are a major economic driver for the U s. economy the legume is also crucial to the diets and livelihoods of millions of small farmers in Asia and Africa many of
and afternoon hours) â#¢Keep windows in the car and home closed â#¢Wash hair after working
. 5%Lee County AR 0. 5%Lincoln County AR 0. 4%For women which counties had the fastest declines and the biggest annual increases in total cigarette smoking
but also farms orchards and even your car and your car insurance rate Kalisz says. Story Source:
#Researchers take on fighting disastrous consequences of extreme changes in climate before they occurhow can communities dodge future disasters from Mother Nature before she has dealt the blow?
or in the car) to keep pollen out. â#¢Installing your air conditioners early since they're ideal for filtering the outside air that comes into your home. â#¢Washing your hair after coming indoors. â#¢Refraining from mowing lawns
and genetic data providing new insight into the drivers of viral diversity and the emergence of disease that can ultimately impact human health and livelihoods.
The use of bioethanol instead of gasoline reduces the CO2 emissions from cars and fossil fuel consumption.
because there were no horses to pull the pump wagons. Out here in the West the U s. Cavalry was fighting the Apaches on foot
and more powerful batteries for products like cell phones tablets and electric cars said Yi Cui an associate professor at Stanford
because price is an important driver of purchase behavior. Researchers tend to assume food is going to be purchased safe
but overall they aren't the major drivers that lead the average consumer to purchase a particular product.
A driver who has eaten recently spinach or eggs will stop faster thanks to the amino acid tyrosine found in these and other food products.
According to their findings the increase in global vegetation was the dominant driver of emissions during the Pliocene--and the subsequent effects on climate.
#Uncovering the drivers of honey bee colony declines and lossesscientists have announced the results of research conducted on honey bee colony declines
and are researched under and poorly understood drivers. Honey bees provide ecosystem services through pollination of crops worth $215 billion annually worldwide.
Many scientists have proposed new drivers such as pollution from pesticides as the cause of these declines.
At the Wake Forest Medical center doctors use replica bodies to help train surgeons to use the Da vinci system Lee said.
In fact moistening a pound of dry spores would generate enough force to lift a car one meter off the ground.
The key word is appear said Talbot Trotter the study's lead author and a research ecologist with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station.
Tittel said smaller QEPAS device will be added this year to the mobile monitoring van currently carrying out a Rice university of Houston survey of pollutants in the city.
or in the car dramatically increases the odds of children being readmitted to the hospital within a year of being admitted for asthma.
are trained the truckers to properly transport these animals? How long do they wait at the slaughter facility?
Saint louis University research has even found links between driving and increased skin cancer with drivers in the U s. developing more skin cancer on the left side of their faces due to exposure while in the car.
#Temperature most significant driver of worlds tallest treesunderstanding forest biodiversity and how carbon dioxide is stored within trees is an important area of ecological research.
Dominated by emissions from cars trucks and other forms of transportation suburbs account for about 50 percent of all household emissions--largely carbon dioxide--in United states. The study
The goal of the project is to help cities better understand the primary drivers of household carbon footprints in each location said Daniel Kammen Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group
Taking into account the impact of all urban and suburban residents large metropolitan areas have a slightly higher average carbon footprint than smaller metro areas.
The UC Berkeley researchers found that the primary drivers of carbon footprints are household income vehicle ownership
CART analysis indicated that the highest shrub cover in 1929 was in areas having four
and consumption as the main driver of the elephant poaching crisis. In addition the story highlighted the links between'blood ivory'as a source of funds for terrorist organizations and rebel groups in Africa.
for 100 days) and greenhouse gas emission equivalent of 800,000 car trips from one end of the U s. to the other, Â according to the Natural resources Defense Council.
Ride a bike, take public transportation, or walk. The more you can get along without oil and natural gas, the better.
Apps, like the parking app Streetline that helps drivers find available parking spots, use this sensor technology too.
or riding bike on a sidewalk only to be tripped up by a tree root bursting through the concrete.
and gasoline shortages and the trains weren't running to Kasama. Radiation levels were said to be high in the area
and trucks that haul mountains of agribusiness cabbages and cucumbers and whatnot around the country trounce local vans in ton-miles per gallon-the jargon of freight fuel efficiency.
A train gets 480-ton miles per gallon; the best case that Boisvert found in New york city's Union square Greenmarket got 28 ton-miles.
Electric buses, electric light rail, and electric taxis or Zipcars could eventually displace the majority of their liquid fuel consumption at a far lower cost per mile traveled.
The vehicles themselves could be funded likewise by a municipal bond which could be retired fairly quickly, or perhaps by a tax assessment on merchants,
The city, long tied to the auto industry, has lost most of its manufacturing base, and close to a third of the 139-square mile cityscape is abandoned land and buildings.
every five to 10 minutes there was only one car coming from either side of the road.
Our farting microbes are farting methane to power our generator which in turn feeds into the distillery's electrical distribution network this also fuels Reynier's electric car.
A Scottish university has entertained even the possibility for whisky-powered cars by converting pot ale and draff to a butanol additive for gasoline.
11 trucks pulled up with 7, 000 milk crates. Half are filled with soil and half go on the bottom because they re elevated.
Startup brings farmers markets to your doorgood Eggs delivers from farm to table Online services are delivering groceries, takeout and even ice cream trucks.
Good Eggs works with local farms and food makers in some U s. metro areas to help them sell directly to the consumer.
Bakers, beekeepers, farmers and commercial fishermen sell goods at farmers markets throughout the United states. There's a weekly market by my subway stop every Friday.
commercial scale rooftop produce Uber hales ice cream trucks
Stone eyeglasses? Unusual materials get attention at Pitti Uomoflorence, ITALY--They wore seersucker suits, harem pants and chambray shirts.
Style meets function in Mick Peel's bespoke bike saddlesflat streets, good biking infrastructure and temperate weather make Melbourne, Australia, a hot spot for cycling.
a fashion designer that has worked up a large following for his bespoke bike saddles and bar tape.
Adventure Journal featured Peel, who works under the moniker Busyman Bicycles, in a Q&a this week.
Why would one need advanced degrees to make bike saddles you might ask? One doesn't, obviously.
Busyman Bicycles came into being some time in 2008 and also has become very much what my Phd is based on.
Peel says interest in custom bike saddles, bar tape and toe straps, like the type he makes,
such as their bikes, and to move away from mass-produced commodities. For some of his clients, fabric selection has become an issue.
is a hi-tech mobile trailer used for cultivating medicinal marijuana. The aptly-named Big Bud is a fully functional weed farm that features programmable lights,
So about this trailer designed to grow marijuana, where did the idea come from? Oddly enough, it's something that's been done for about 30 years.
and buried the crops in the ground before they eventually switched to using trailers. This is pretty rudimentary,
so what we did was just take it to the next level by implementing hydroponic technology and developing it into a full line of trailers for not only the medical marijuana community,
Giving them the marijuana from a sterilized environment like our trailers is a huge benefit to this industry.
So what kind of customers do you get who express interest in owning a Big Bud trailer?
This means more cars, more traffic, more noise, more neighbors above and below you, and more pollution of all kinds.
On a sunny day, this 2, 200-acre reserve in the 16th arrondissement is full of cyclists,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Highlights include Wissahickon Valley Park with 50 miles of rugged terrain for mountain bikers and hikers, plus trout fishing in Wissahickon creek;
how good corn-based ethanol is for the environment, cars, and food prices is highly questionable.
The future of the parking lotthe prominence of the parking lot in the United states is undeniable.
It's estimated that parking lots cover anywhere from 800 million to 2 billion square miles of land in the United states
. And if we parked all the cars in the U s. in nonresidential parking spaces there would be plenty left over.
If we're going to pave over our country with parking lots shouldn't we give them a little more attention?
what this reimagined parking lot would look like. The first is a redesign of the Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin, Italy, in
which the architect Renzo Piano eliminated islands and curbs and instead added a grid of trees.
Now, the parking lot is hardly recognizable (see the image above. The other example comes from the Dia art museum (see below) in Beacon,
N y. and pays closer attention to the look of the parking lot to make it more inviting.
But it is a step in the right direction toward a better parking lot. Ben-Joseph takes a look at what else can be done
so that future parking lots are more sustainable and better integrated into communities. Ben-Joseph writes: A better parking lot might be covered with solar canopies
so that it could produce energy while lowering heat. Or perhaps it would be surfaced with a permeable material like porous asphalt
The ubiquity of parking lots has led also to an overlooked social dimension: In the United states, parking lots may be the most regularly used outdoor space.
They are public places that people interact with and use on a daily basis, whether working, shopping, running errands, eating,
even walking parking lots are one of the few places where cars and pedestrians coexist. Better parking lots would embrace
and expand this role...Planned with greater intent, parking lots could actually become significant public spaces,
contributing as much to their communities as great boulevards, parks or plazas. I like that idea.
parking lots will continue to be a reality unless we completely stop driving. That's not likely to happen anytime soon.
So lets discuss the transformation of parking lots the way we discuss the transformation of streets.
Ignoring parking lots in our cities won't make them go away. When A Parking lot Is So much More The New york times Top image:
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The iphone 5 could have changed everythingprotestors dressed up to represent Foxconn workers outside an Apple retail outlet in Hong Hong on May 7th, 2011..
With diesel at $4 a gallon, just 50 miles'worth of trucking costs to get feedstock to mills
An estimated 15,000 to 30,000 rail cars a year could transit the line when finished, creating thousands of permanent jobs all along an economically depressed corridor.
Unfortunately, our governmental bodies remain in legislative capture by the automobile and oil industries and haven't shown much leadership on freight rail
instead a box of band-aids for roads and bridges and an unwavering commitment to keeping 240 million cars
and trucks running on them. They would rather socialize an unlimited amount of private losses than wrestle an out-of-control financial system back onto solid ground.
Consider the sales of new cars and trucks versus sales of new bicycles with 20 or larger wheels:
US Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the National Bicycle Dealers Association Both fell sharply in the economic crash of 2008,
but bicycle sales held up considerably better, and actually exceeded vehicle sales in 2009. What the data still can't tell us are traveled the miles by bicycle or on foot,
and how much of that traffic constitutes an enduring shift away from fuel-burning transportation. Anecdotally, I have seen many more people in my own social circles biking more and driving less,
we should see bicycle sales hold firm around 11 million per year, if not rise above vehicle sales again as we move into the era of net oil supply decline circa 2014.
Instead, I would argue that millions of people simply can't afford a new car payment anymore
but to try to keep their old cars running. I would argue that the 276 percent increase in Autozone's stock (AZO)
Top companies include Japan's Toyota, followed distantly by Nissan and Honda. In fact, GM was the only U s. company to crack the alternative top 10, at number seven.
Computers & Peripherals Despite a drop from 2009, computers remains the most innovative technology area in 2010.
Toyota led the pack by far in this category. Pharmaceuticals If you're wondering what Big Pharma is up to,
While I can t calculate my carbon footprint for the short cab ride to the airport (less than 10 miles),
In terms of car usage I recently went car-lite and outfitted my bicycle with a rear rack
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,
000 lbs. of carbon dioxide can be offset for $35. 70. I can afford $35. 70 to balance my greenhouse gas emissions.
Electric cars can save the economy and strengthen national security. Yet we re producing more polluting cars now than ever
and deforestation continues at unprecedented rates. I m focused on Copenhagen because there is information there that needs to be brought back to the people.
which operates Hong kong s subway system, announced the proposal of a new train station in an area called Kennedy Town.
the company had conceded to move the subway exit to another location so as not to interfere with the so-called stone-wall trees.
It will sort of work like a garbage truck where it takes the trash from your house and transports it to a landfill.
Tomorrow's truck loses weight, but at what environmental cost? Ford'S f-150 pickup truck is the best-selling vehicle in the United states it has been for 32 years.
The automaker sold 760,000 F-150s last year, far outpacing the top car in retail sales, the Toyota camry,
of which just under 408,500 units rolled off lots. So when Ford revealed at the Detroit Auto Show in January that it would make the body of future F-150 models mostly from aluminum rather than steel starting in 2015,
the news spread quickly across the automotive supply chain. The move to aluminum is all about fuel efficiency.
the new F-150 truck will drop 700 pounds by replacing steel with aluminum in its body panels.
With the most efficient option, the 2. 7-liter Ecoboost engine with start-stop technology, Ford estimates the truck could get close to 30 miles per gallon (mpg.
But stepping back and looking at the move to aluminum not just in the F-150 but also across the luxury car segment,
researchers at University of Michigan found that for a car using 23 percent aluminum for lightweighting,
Gregory Keoleian, a coauthor of the 2010 University of Michigan research and the director of the school's Center for Sustainable Systems, notes that his research focused on a baseline car that gets 33 mpg.
taking weight off the less efficient Ford f-150 will result in a greater reduction in energy,
Another lifecycle assessment to be published at a Society of Automotive engineers meeting in April suggests that aluminum-intensive vehicle design has a greater potential to reduce emissions
The aluminum industry is likely gearing up for growth based both on the trend toward more aluminum in cars generally,
but certainly because of Ford's move, specifically. Looking just at the F-150's first full year on the market,
A Ford spokesperson told me it's too soon to talk specifics with regard to the lifecycle energy picture
and stricter fuel-efficiency requirements are forcing automotive industry suppliers to constantly innovate to make ever lighter high-strength steel to address automakers'lightweighting goals.
Any competition is good for automakers it provides alternatives, it's good for suppliers, it forces us to be our best,
what impact Ford's move will have on the steel industry, he was a bit less diplomatic. We're just really nervous about it,
I feel Ford has thrown down the gauntlet. Still, like Kavanagh, Krupitzer sees the uptick in automotive aluminum applications keeping the steel industry innovative,
So why would Ford invest so heavily in what seems like an incremental improvement? Because the boost in mpg performance, combined with F-150's huge sales volume will improve Ford's fleetwide average fuel efficiency,
Gott says. Increasing fuel efficiency is vitally important for reducing the overall transportation sector's overall greenhouse gas emissions.
If federal policies accounted for each vehicle's lifecycle emissions from mining ore to recycling auto components automakers would have many more trade-offs to consider.
composites, carbon fiber and other cutting-edge automobile materials would welcome. Unfortunately, federal policy only regulates the driving cycle, not the full cycle.
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