Causes of deforestation Deforestation is done typically to make more land available for housing and urbanization timber large scale cash crops such as soy and palm oil and cattle ranching.
The World Wildlife Fund reports that much of the logging industry that contributes to deforestation is done illegally (about half of it used for firewood.
and palm oil can actually exacerbate soil erosion because their roots cannot hold onto the soil the way trees can.
With so many dead trees available as fuel forest fires are a concern. And so are changes to the quality of drinking water.
If you put all your energy into reproduction then you will have a low survival. 5 Mysterious Animal Die offs No matter how healthy
Conversely the researchers found no association between Vitamin e an antioxidantâ found in high levels in oils made from safflower sunflower and wheat germ as well as nuts and nut oils.
because higher air temperatures coupled with lower humidity makes forests drier and better fuel for wildfires.
and hominins leaving Africa for Eurasia said study co-author Joseph Ferraro an archaeologist at Baylor University in Waco Texas. The meaty meals may have provided the energy for those transformations he said.
and then cracked open the skulls to access the fatty nutritious energy-rich brains. That might have fueled the body changes seen later in modern-human ancestors such as Homo erectus.
As a result they do not have to expend energy to keep themselves warm and can use it to grow instead.
and sells energy bars made of cricket flour. Â Humans aren't the only ones who could stand to eat more insects.
1 Sautã 1/4 sweet onion and a smashed garlic clove over medium-high heat in 1 teaspoon canola or olive oil until almost soft.
Preventing the build up of biological matter on a ship's hull for example could increase the efficiency of the ship's movement ultimately leading to more efficient fuel usage.
#Environmental law Fuels Black market Trade in Cat Skins Fluffy hold on to your fur: Some scoundrels may want a piece of you.
and cramped trees providing the perfect fuel for blazing hot fires. Hot fires scorch the earth burning seeds in the ground
so in order to be preserved it must be placed in a mineral oil such as kerosene. See Periodic table of the Elements As with other metals of the alkali group potassium decomposes in water with the evolution of hydrogen.
and has enjoyed an economic boom based on exports of minerals oil and agricultural products successfully weathering recent financial storms.
But the decades spent earnestly masticating (mechanically removing potential fire fuel) devil-red manzanitas with trunks as thick as thighs
and fuel before fire season does help control fires in Western conifer forests like the tall giants of Sequoia National park in Northern California.
When chaparral erupts in flames every few years native species burn through their energy stores
and nearly torching Los alamos National Laboratory one of the nation's nuclear testing labs. The Santa monica mountains national recreation area had prescribed their last burn in 2005 said Marti Witter a fire ecologist with the park.
Fighting fires with fuel Clearing chaparral for firebreaks a gap meant to slow spreading flames also does little to help fire fighters battle the chaotic infernos driven by California's Santa ana winds Fotheringham told Ouramazingplanet.
Raging Western Wildfires in Photos That's because clearing land encourages the growth of weeds flashy fuels that easily ignite from embers.
They're investing an enormous amount of energy into that one baby. Killing Steller's jays won't help the murrelets;
and wind speed the team's model considered energy coming from the sun at different times of the year
In places where temperatures are already close to water's melting point the infrared energy can accelerate the melting of snow.
 On a north-facing slope where sunlight is less of a factor the energy from trees may have a stronger effect Dickerson-Lange said.
These chases cost the cheetah an enormous amount of energy and they're usually all over in less than a minute.
but a hippo's sedentary lifestyle doesn t require much energy so it can get by on less food.
Kangaroos burn less energy the faster they hop at least up to their cruising speed of 20 mph (32 kph.
Much of a moose's energy is maintained by eating flowering plants and fresh shoots from trees such as willow and birch.
While much lower in energy these plants provide the moose with sodium and as much as half of their diet usually consists of marsh or river plants.
The male will drop its antlers after the mating season to conserve energy for the winter.
and a half 0. 6 kg when he was examined first 23 days after his birth he is now just over 41 pounds 18.5 kg of pure energy the zoo said in a statement.
logging increased collection of firewood and non-timber forest products by outside enterprises and other commercial development activities Russell Mittermeier president of environmental organization Conservation International said in a statement.
More than a century of fire suppression has built up piles of dead wood that fuel hot intense fires that burn into the tops of trees instead of staying low on the ground.
The heat inhibits convective energy keeping warm dry air near the surface from rising and mixing with cool moist air above.
soybean oil. Common in processed foods in both GMO and non-GMO formulations soybean oil has high levels of omega-6 fatty acids
which have studied a well relationship to inflammation a known risk factor for heart disease cancer arthritis and a host of other diseases.
which earned $2. 73 billion last year in part based on their reputation of using environmentally friendly ingredients disclosed that it is using genetically modified soybean oil and many genetically modified ingredients in its dishes.
Additionally Michael Jacobson executive director of the Center for Science in the Public interest said there is no safety hazard in using genetically modified soybean oil over conventional soybean oil a finding the organization highlighted recently in its Nutrition Action newsletter.
Is soybean oil hazardous? Soybean oil is a great example of a genetically modified food often associated with misinformation.
Because of its low cost soybean oil is used in a vast quantity of the processed foods Americans eat.
Just look at the food-label ingredient lists in your own kitchen cabinet. This is a problem
because soybean oil provides a substantial amount of omega-6 fatty acids. Omega-6 fatty acids although essential to the human body are required in very minute amounts
Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed was Is Your Olive oil As Healthy As You Think?(
Carbohydrates are the most important source of energy for your body. Your digestive system converts carbohydrates into blood sugar (glucose.
We've seen this movie before most recently in disinformation campaigns by oil and gas companies like Exxonmobil that try to undermine climate science
and before that by Big Tobacco to disseminate disinformation about the health effects of smoking.
In the past Milloy has made similar arrangements with oil and gas companies to misinform about climate science; he previously worked for Phillip Morris distorting the scientific evidence about the hazards of cigarettes and secondhand smoke.
Time for action The Georgia pacific and Syngenta cases are likely part of a long line of corporate counterfeit science much
Generally people think of the green economy as that which is limited to the conversion of fossil fuels to renewable energy and a green job as one that benefits the environment.
For example those seeking employment in the renewable energy or energy-efficiency sectors as an auditor or analyst may supplement their current skills with a nationally recognized credential.
That risk can be reduced through careful siting of wind-power developments away from important bat roosts
so that they aren't spinning in low wind (read low power) conditions when bats are most active.
Curbing Them Is Key to Climate-Change Strategy (Op-Ed) Hallie Kennan a research assistant at Energy Innovation:
HFCS are used commonly as refrigerants and propellants in aerosols. Currently HFCS comprise only 2 percent of total carbon-dioxide-equivalent emissions
CFCS which are used most widely as refrigerants propellants and solvents (and are better known for their impact on the Earth's ozone layer
According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions SLCFS may be responsible for as much as 40 percent of human-induced climate change
But if the hypothesis tested in this study that the estrogen in dairy fat fuels cancer is held up in future studies it would suggest that women who eat a lot of high-fat dairy have a higher risk of developing estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer
and is sucking water out of valuable aquifers to feed its growing oil and gas operations.
Kistner's most recent Op-Ed was Arkansans Still Suffering Effects from Seeping Oil Months After Mayflower Spill.
Olive oil is often cut with cheaper oils and sold at premium prices a practice that's expected to expand as a shortage of the oil (caused by a 2012 drought in southern Europe) hits global markets.
A possible solution to the honey-provenance quandary has come from an unlikely source: astronomy.
But that same technology can be used to analyze the smoke given off by heated honey olive oil
A sample of honey for example can be matched to the flowers of a specific geographic region through the laser analysis. You will know in the case of olive oil
My own feeling is that nature tries to minimize energy spent and from that point of view
unless we get ahead of the fuels/restoration problem in forests that once experienced frequent fire wildfires influenced by climate change will burn them at severities
However if fuels treatments had been used in this area we would not have had the tree mortality that has occurred probably.
and agricultural land or provide firewood accelerating the region's harsh conditions. But the Sahel's native trees like Dr. Seuss'fantastical colorful truffula trees in his tale The Lorax are far more than they appear.
In times of drought firewood can be sold and food purchased to tide families over.''''Conserving gum trees contributes to an overall vision of creating a green wall across the Sahel to serve as a barrier protecting the semiarid agricultural lands from the Sahara desert's southward creep.
None of the vehicles uses a drop of gasoline. They don t use batteries that are charged via the electric grid.
They are nonpolluting use zero fossil fuel and generate no greenhouse gases. So what s theâ power source?
but run on gasoline and get about 1300 miles (2100 kilometers) per gallon. Yet the ASME HPVC stands out among all of these competitions in part because of the structure of the competition itself which gives student teams much more design freedom to innovate
gases and a savings of more than 3 billion gallons (11 billion liters) of gasoline. It is true that this represents a small fraction of total U s. greenhouse-gas emissions
 Students participating in the HPVC are designing transportation solutions for a world faced with economic stress and poverty climate change and strife over energy supplies.
Samples of soil collected from the three mounds revealed they were made of a dense collection of shells bones and charcoal.
That has nothing to do with nuclear energy it refers to the nucleus or centre of the living cell.
or filtered milk that are there for energy storage or blood juices in which our blood cells float.
A lot of GM foods that Americans eat are in a highly refined form like cottonseed oil or soy lecithin.
#Is Your Olive oil As Healthy As You Think?(Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian;
The expensive olive oil in your kitchen cabinet is likely not as fresh nutritious or high in quality as you assume it might be.
when using olive oil purchased from America's grocery shelves? Possibly. This issue first came to my attention at a Mediterranean Diet Conference
You feel good about using olive oil right? You know it's good for you tasty and easy to use.
and the best bang for your buck there's more you should know. 4 Tips for Finding Time for Healthy Cooking The health benefits of olive oil are 99 percent related to the presence of the phenolic compounds not the oil itself said Nasir
Malik is referring to the polyphenols in olive oil nutrients also found in wine tea cocoa
and many fruits and vegetables that have been discovered over the past decade to be the substances responsible for the bulk of olive oil's health benefits without
which you might as well use canola oil Malik said. And when tested polyphenols were surprisingly low in most commercially available olive oils according to a recently published study conducted by the Agricultural research service co-authored by Malik.
They also don't live up to international or USDA quality standards according to studies conducted by the University of California at Davis (UC-Davis) Olive Center.
Fresh high-polyphenol olive oil affects the expression of those genes in a positive way reducing your risk for metabolic syndrome and heart disease.
But low-polyphenol olive oil does not have the same effectsa recent study found. Polyphenols also reduce cancer risk by lowering inflammation and cellular proliferation.
Those biological benefits explain in part why the Mediterranean diet high in olive oil has been linked with superior health.
freshly harvested olive oil. That's because olives were growing on trees in people's backyards;
and health benefits of the oil diminish. Think of olive oil as olive juice with a maximum two-year shelf life said Selina Wang research director at the UC-Davis Olive Center.
Several factors are responsible for the polyphenol content of olive oil according to the experts: The quest Marcia Horting and her husband Marc Marzullo who visit Italy regularly are on a constant quest for great olive oil.
We look for oils produced by single vineyards co-ops in small towns like Volpaia or high-quality Tuscan producers that are grassy and spicy said Horting a consultant in Gaithersburg Md.
She has noticed that in the bigger stores in Paris and Rome serving tourists older olive oils are sold at the same prices as the more recent harvest.
Luckily you no longer have to travel to Italy for high-quality extra virgin olive oils as they are now being produced in the United states. They're more likely to be fresh
and with a price you can afford. California is the leader of the olive oil-producing states
but Texas Oregon Arizona and Georgia are producing a small amount. It's tricky to know
if the olive oil you're buying is high-quality fresh extra virgin olive oil. In most U s. stores I have found olive oil with harvest dates on perhaps one out of 20 bottles.
Some have sell-by dates which are usually two years after harvest (already too old!)
though there are no standards for a sell-by date so there is no guarantee how old your olive oil is
unless there is a harvest date. Olives are harvested once annually usually in the fall/winter depending on the region.
whether an olive oil has been harvested and handled to maximize polyphenol content. The way I handle this is by going to a specialty shop where the owners are familiar with the olive farm from
and the oil processed or somewhere that I know sells California or Texas olive oil. I make sure the container is opaque.
It has to have a harvest date within the past year. I keep it in a cool dark cabinet at home
I save expensive olive oil for drizzling on salads and use canola oil for cooking especially with high heat.
For maximum nutrition quality and flavor ideally the olive oil you buy should not be more than one year old.
#Japan Scales Back Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals Japan is slashing its greenhouse gas reduction goals in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident which has caused the country to replace its nuclear power with coal natural gas
and other greenhouse-gas emitting forms of energy. Instead of reducing greenhouse gases by 25 percent from their 1990 levels Japan's goals will aim for a 3 percent rise over those levels
and soy oils the building blocks of junk food according to an annual report published by CALPIRG Apples to Twinkies 2013:
Back then the production of tar-sands oil had reached just a high point of 1. 2 million barrels per day when
Keystone XL is an export pipeline that will not benefit the United states'energy security and will create far fewer jobs than claimed by the oil industry.
Keystone XL will directly lead to a significant increase in greenhouse-gas emissions and under President Barack Obama's climate test the pipeline should be rejected.
We cannot allow the Keystone XL pipeline to facilitate the expansion of this highly destructive dirty oil operation.
In its recent report FAO estimates that 868 million people (12.5 percent of the world population) are undernourished in terms of energy intake.
Afternoon energy boost In other forests the process of making food from light known as photosynthesis tends to drop off in the afternoon.
But these sky island trees see a boost in their energy harvesting into midday perhaps to take advantage of a period
and energy than males to raising their offspring. Â A female blue tit which is about the size of an adult hand from beak to tail picks her partner based on his colorful blue and yellow plumage and the sweetness of his song.
But all of this construction takes energy and puts a female in danger of attack from predators.
The bandaging around the mummy contained remnants of an elaborate balm made of fat or oil and resin from a Pistacia tree a shrubby desert plant.
The ancient Mediterranean diet Health studies out last week heralded the modern Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil fish
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Carnitine is also a popular over-the-counter diet supplement often billed as helping to boost energy and bulk up muscle.
It's found in some energy drinks and muscle milks. The researchers looked at fasting levelsof blood carnitine in nearly 2600 men and women.
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That person won't have the energy to start Apple or to fly across the Atlantic on a piece of wood like Charles Lindbergh.
The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation (Grand Central Publishing 2013. The book is filled with examples of people (mostly men as OCPD is less common among women) who rose to the top of their fields largely due to their obsessiveness.
and energy we consume every year was within what the planet could sustain. In 1975 there were about 4. 1 billion people.
and install palm oil plantations. By 2050 the human population is projected to be about 9 billion people.
Over that same time demand for food water and energy are expected to double. If you think about today's consumption rate per billion people as a shopping cart people are filling 7 shopping carts.
and use other natural resources like forests water and energy resources. Instead of taking more to make more people need to commit to making more with less.
Society also needs to become passionate about efficiency more crops per drop of water more miles per gallon of fuel.
when oil millionaire John D. Rockefeller Jr. paid to have the palace s expansive roof restored among other buildings.
It is part of EDF s larger effort to advance a new era in conservation one that rewards private landowners for protecting our natural resources.
With that in mind the EDF has begun a three-part campaign for the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices
Fueling better farming is a practice known as precision agriculture which uses extensive data from a farmer's field
and deploy clean energy technologies with particular focus on wind solar and geothermal alternatives. White house officials hinted at a goal to expand renewable energy projects on public land
which would build on the president's objective to establish 10 gigawatts of renewable energy on public land by the end of 2012 which was fulfilled ahead of schedule.
In addition the president is expected to discuss measures to increase energy efficiency in homes and household appliances which the White house says will help American families
and businesses save money. Obama's plan will also include steps aimed at reducing methane emissions
since lead poisoning is the number one environmental threat to children in the United states. Sources of lead in soil include past industrial activities flaking lead paint from old houses and emissions from leaded gasoline.
Though the United states phased out leaded gasoline in cars and trucks during the 1970s and 1980s soil in high-traffic
when a massive star runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion and collapses in on itself in a giant explosion.
Testimonials from ordinary folks are endless boasting advantages along the lines of having more energy better skin improved relationships with woodland creatures and so on
Live or uncooked foods are said to be filled with vital life energy. In this way raw veganism is an extension of the vegan appreciation for animal welfare with the added spirituality of a life force called chi or prana.
Dead or cooked foods are said to be depleted of their life energy as well as most of their nutrients.
As for the concept of life energy in raw food this is a spiritual belief beyond the realm of science so debating its benefit let alone existence would be futile.
The problem with the raw food diet is where do you get your energy food?
if the raw diet offers no additional moral satisfaction other than a reduced use of cooking fuel.
The human brain after all requires a lot of energy. Eating Meat Made Us Human Study Suggests Our raw-vegan cousin the gorilla has three times the body size of humans but one-third the brain cells;
The suppressed economy during the Great depression led to reduced fossil fuel emissions Tree rings from the 1930s showed improved tree growth and physiology.
And the burning of fuel generates not only carbon dioxide but also air pollutants that are harmful to human health.
Your body starts digesting these starches from the moment you start chewing extracting nutrients and energy.
The human body does not absorb nutrients or energy from them. Soluble fiber dissolves in water making food more viscous slowing digestion
All of this extra fermentation and availability of SCFA provides fuel or energy for the colonocytes cells lining the colon
which are a barrier against infection. Therefore the lining of the bowel thickens and becomes healthier
Intense flames can create a layer of plant oils that keep soil from absorbing water as well as destroying plant roots
but for giant container ships the drag created by microorganisms in particular single-celled silica-shelled organisms called diatoms results in a significant amount of fuel loss every year.
Plants absorb energy from the sunlight. That energy then is converted into glucose in the plant by photosynthesis. Glucose is the sugar in the grape that ferments to become alcohol.
Nutrient-poor soil also makes for a good wine grape. The color and flavor that come from a grape are stored mostly in the grape's skin.
and creating more dry fuel for the fires. Budget cuts to the U s. Forest Service could also play a role by limiting the amount of firefighters
and lowering the amount of acreage set aside for hazardous fuel reduction. The Forest Service estimates to have substantial cuts this year
Americans waste four percent of our oil producing transporting and packaging food that never gets eaten.
New Building codes Could Slash Energy Costs. This post is part of the NRDC Wasteland series featuring people towns businesses
Today I d like to discuss a mineral that is essential for energy production bone health and nerve function.
and muscle repair (musclebuilding) and play a smaller role as an energy source. In general about 10 to 35 percent of your daily calories should come from protein according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.
#Should You Stockpile Olive oil? Erratic weather including a devastating drought in Europe and a freak hailstorm in Australia has left the world with a looming shortage of olive oil.
In spring of 2012 a late frost hit Spain in the middle of the olive's flowering season according to the Huffington Post.
and less oil. Spain is the world's largest producer of olive oil making almost half the global supply according to the Guardian.
But Spain was one of several olive-producing countries hammered by a drought that swept across southern Europe in the summer of 2012.
Not only will the olive oil shortage raise prices but it's also expected to increase the already-rampant illegal doctoring of olive oil the Daily mail reports.
In 2011 two businessmen in Spain were found guilty of selling extra-virgin olive oil that was in fact 75 percent sunflower oil a cheaper substitute.
The market for olive oil has grown rapidly in recent years as food scientists have touted the product's health benefits.
Studies have shown that the oil can improve cholesterol levels and it's an important component of the Mediterranean diet frequently cited as one of the most healthful ways of eating.
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