These nutrients fuel phytoplankton growth in the sunlit surface waters. Since 1950 California has experienced more winters with weak coastal upwelling than in the last five centuries.
rich in olive oil nuts fruit and vegetables and low in refined carbohydrates. Saturated fat was part of a healthy diet he said but not from fast food.
#Olive oil and Veggies May Combine to Lower Blood pressure Putting olive oil on your veggies may bring health benefits that aren't found
when the oil is drizzled on other foods new research in mice suggests. Olive oil's unsaturated fat reacts with certain compounds in vegetables to form a third compound that can reduce blood pressure the researchers found.
The findings may explain why the Mediterranean diet which is high in both olive oil and vegetables appears to lower blood pressure
and prevent heart disease the researchers said. When olive oil and vegetables are digested together the conditions in the stomach provide an environment for the fatty acids to react with nitrogen compounds in the veggies
and form compounds called nitro fatty acids which have been shown to keep blood pressure in check in animals according to the researchers. 7 Foods Your Heart Will Hate The scientists used mice to investigate how nitro fatty acids may lead to reduced blood pressure looking specifically at
and were given olive oil omega-6 fatty acids along with sodium nitrite to mimic components of a Mediterranean diet for five days.
The Mediterranean diet includes unsaturated fats found in olive oil fish and nuts as well as vegetables like spinach celery and carrots that are rich in nitrogen compounds.
The finding suggests the reptiles prefer to play it safe rather than conserve energy researchers say.
It may be that arboreal (tree-living) snakes move so infrequently that their energy expenditure while climbing has little overall impact on their lives the researchers suggest.
Or perhaps the benefits of playing it safe simply outweigh the energy costs. Though the topic hasn't been explored much choosing safety over economy may be more common in the animal kingdom than thought Byrnes said.
Given that coal was responsible for 53 percent of the electricity generated in Montana last year
and the state has the largest coal reserves in the nation the proposal received a mixed reception among Montana pols.
Their responses ranged from praising the EPA for a responsible flexible plan to condemning the agency for making war on coal and Montana jobs.
According to preliminary U s. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers for 2013 the coal industry employed only 1116 people in Montana out of a total workforce of nearly 437000.
Oil and gas jobs are even more scarce. Although there are four oil refineries in the state only 761 Montanans worked in the industry last year.
Agriculture and outdoor recreation are much more important to the state's economy and climate change is taking a toll on both.
and her co-authors also called on state officials to make Montana a hub for clean-energy jobs.
and the District of columbia Montana has a standard in place promoting renewable energy such as wind and solar.
Jeff Deyette a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists calls it a missed opportunity.
and ramping up their renewable energy targets Montana is missing a golden opportunity to build on
Given what we know about global warming legislators there are clearly putting the interests of the coal industry ahead of their own constituents.
which plants convert the sun s energy into sugars for growth and storage. In wheat like in other crops this process results in more energy-rich grains.
The Rothamsted group aims to select wheat varieties with high photosynthetic rates in addition to traits which breeders conventionally look for such as healthy grains
The company pledged not to buy supplies such as palm oil from companies that clear-cut forested areas. Trying to trace these ingredients to their source proved incredibly difficult said Duncan Pollard the company's head of stakeholder engagement in sustainability.
In Indonesia users can see which palm oil companies are operating in which areas. Before Global Forest Watch no one had access to that information Sizer said.
Can a young animal spend too much energy playing rather than putting energy into growth and maintenance?
And we need to incorporate zero-waste and low-energy technologies into the task of food production.
in order to take advantage of the sun s energy or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.
and energy and improve crop yield. It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
Vertical farming s biggest limitation is energy consumption. Considerable energy is required to power a closed indoor greenhouse facility s artificial lighting heating and cooling and hydroponic or aeroponic growing systems.
The amount of energy required per unit of product is an important factor for ensuring
not only that the farm is sustainable but that it is economically viable. Recently more and more studies have focused on pairing solar panels
They re also physically small have a long service life lower power consumption generate less heat
This increases efficiency not just in terms of energy use but by allowing layers of growing plants to be packed more densely making more efficient use of space.
Leaving the trees burns energy and makes sloths easy prey for predators but the benefits of a richer diet appear to be worth the perils.
and expend very little energy at rest. Pauli and his colleagues thought they knew why these tree-dwellers come down from the canopy to relieve themselves.
and gives them energy. In addition to being a tasty nutritional supplement the algae may serve as camouflage against predators from above such as the Harpy eagle.
or anthropogenic sources of methane rice production landfills and burning fossil fuels for example domesticated ruminants are the largest source worldwide.
#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 effort aims to use straw to create a biofuel that can be mixed with kerosene in a 50/50 blend.
The new fuel would put agricultural waste to work instead of diverting food crops to make biofuels.
Biofuels have developed in response to the high costs of oil production and to the problem of pollution created during petroleum extraction and refining processes.
But critics have said biofuel production causes food shortages by replacing edible crops with plants intended for use in fuels.
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.
The process of creating these new fuels wouldn't be very different from that used for typical biofuels.
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
which are similar to traditional jet fuels. When mixed with kerosene theses hydrocarbons can be burned in jet engines.
The hard part will be finding the most suitable microorganisms and perfecting the fermentation process. Relying on this type of fuel could also save money.
No extra crops would need to be grown to make the biofuel and the dependability of the fuel source could insulate airlines from spikes in fuel prices c
#Tasty Life: Leopard Teeth, Calf bones Found in Ruins Near Pyramids TORONTO The remains of a mansion that likely held high-ranking officials some 4500 years ago have been discovered near Egypt's Giza Pyramids.
The next generation of sensors will generate power from insect movement store the energy in batteries being developed at CSIRO
though so they don't get much energy from it. This may be why sloths are so slow.
The researchers consulted records from the U s. Department of agriculture the Department of the interior and the Department of energy from 2000 to 2010.
Tung and Chen noticed that the North Atlantic's heat content (a measure of stored energy) shifted in 1999 about
These regions stored more heat energy than the rest of the world's oceans combined even the enormous Pacific ocean the researchers'temperature data show.
which normally only lasts through early spring by robbing the flames of the dry fuel they need to flare up.
and there is plenty of fuel in the forests left to burn. But two fires had the conditions
and the amount of fuel on the ground both were poised to be record-breaking. However fire crews
What largely helped to prevent that from happening was the foresight of the U s. Forest Service managers of Coconino National Forest which in years prior to the fire implemented restoration-based hazardous-fuel reduction treatments.
and provide ample fuel for high-severity crown fires that kill old-growth trees. These catastrophic fires can be difficult and costly to contain
in addition to excess fuels climate change is influencing the frequency and size of fires. One of the ways this is playing out is in the boom and bust of wet and dry seasons.
During wetter years fuels build up. As drought conditions set in during drier years the abundant fuels become tinder dry
and when they ignite the fires take off. Forest restoration vital to ecosystems and to Arizona While the San juan and Slide fires provide good examples of successful treatments they are also clear indications that Arizona leaders cannot be complacent.
and hazardous fuel reduction treatments outside of the WUI landscape-scale fires will continue to occur.
when gasoline and coal are burned Bryan Duncan an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told Earth Observatory.
In modern tropical forests sun-loving trees grab the most energy with tightly packed leaf veins
It could also reduce reliance on oil exportation as the primary economic industry of several nations in the region n
#Chernobyl Trees Barely Decomposed, Study Finds Almost 30 years ago the world's attention was fixed on Chernobyl the nuclear power plant in Ukraine that exploded in one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
It adds to the fuel as well as makes it more likely that catastrophically sized forest fires might start.
Some of the so-called healthy foods it creates instant oatmeal energy bars multigrain breads are essentially candy
But whey protein supplements are touted as a way to increase energy fight stress and improve mental focus.
and to the energy and agriculture sectors a new report released Tuesday concludes. The report the first to quantify the damage the American economy could sustain from unabated climate change was compiled by the nonpartisan Risky Business Project a venture launched in October
The report also found that increasing heat will strain the nation s energy systems as it causes efficiency to decline
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When we pick up a package of food at the store cereal frozen pizza chips an energy drink a nutrition bar cake we assume that everything in it is OK to eat.
but all the resources that went into producing it including 25 percent of our fresh water and 4 percent of our oil.
Leaving the trees burns energy and makes sloths easy prey for predators but the benefits of a richer diet appear to be worth the perils.</
and plant trees with the combined goals of preventing erosion storing rainwater and providing food and firewood to local people.
or cooked into sauce and also includes capers peppers olives and olive oil garlic artichokes eggplant and ricotta cheese.
because movement burns so much energy photosynthesis simply can't power animal-style activity which is why animals eat plants and other animals.
In Seward spilled oil slicked the water and caught fire. When the earthquake-triggered tsunami hit minutes later the wave was blazing It was an eerie thing to see a huge tide of fire washing ashore survivor Gene Kirkpatrick told National geographic magazine in 1964.
and people who want to lose weight should reduce their overall energy intake the researchers said. Fruits and vegetables have many benefits
It's for a nuclear kind of ingroup whether it's the family or clan and it's for local on-the-spot consumption.
And yet a large black market for ivory still thrives fueling elephant poaching in Africa. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has estimated that some 96 elephants are killed each day on average mostly for their ivory.
or an Energy star washing machine to eliminate thousands of gallons of water waste each year. Again check the EPA Watersense Rebate Finder you might qualify for a rebate for making those switches. 4. Use the dishwasher Hand-washing your dishes can use up to 27 gallons of water per session compared to just 3 gallons for a new Energy star-rated dishwasher
. 5. Cover the pool If you're fortunate enough to have a backyard pool make sure the water stays in the pool instead of evaporating cover the pool
#Is Coconut oil Good for you? The Healthy Geezer answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column.
I read on the internet that coconut oil is great for your cholesterol and has other health benefits.
I thought coconut oil was very bad for you. What gives? Here's the advice of Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public health Department of Nutrition:
I'd use coconut oil sparingly. Most of the research so far has consisted of short-term studies to examine its effect on cholesterol levels.
We don't really know how coconut oil affects heart disease. And I don't think coconut oil is as healthful as vegetable oils like olive oil and soybean oil
which are unsaturated mainly fat and therefore both lower LDL low-density lipoprotein or the bad cholesterol and increase HDL high density-lipoprotein lipoprotein the good cholesterol.
Coconut oil's special HDL-boosting effect may make it less bad than the high saturated fat content would indicate
but it's still probably not the best choice among the many available oils to reduce the risk of heart disease.
The 3 Types of Fats Explained Dr. Thomas Brenna professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University has done a thorough review of the literature on coconut oil.
He explains why coconut oil was given a bad name. Most of the studies involving coconut oil were hydrogenated done with partially coconut oil
which researchers used because they needed to raise the cholesterol levels of their rabbits in order to collect certain data.
Virgin coconut oil which has not been treated chemically is a different thing in terms of a health risk perspective.
Plant foods that contain saturated fat include coconut oil palm oil and cocoa butter. Saturated fat raises both the bad cholesterol and the goodcholesterol.
They're found mainly in many fish nuts seeds and oils from plants. Some examples of foods that contain these fats are salmon trout herring avocados olives walnuts and liquid vegetable oils such as soybean corn safflower canola olive and sunflower.
which makes the oil less likely to spoil. Using trans fats in the manufacturing of foods helps foods stay fresh longer have a longer shelf life
Why is coconut oil getting internet attention and a lot of buyers in health food stores? As Dr. Willett points out coconut oil seems especially effective in giving HDL a boost.
There are several forces creating this phenomenon. The coconut oil industry is working hard to win public favor.
There are scientists who are backing off from the damnation of coconut oil. And then there are vegans who abstain from animal products.
Many vegans use coconut oil as a butter substitute. Coconut oil is solid at room temperature. If you would like to ask a question write to fred@healthygeezer. com
#Tree Infesting Insects Love the City Heat (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Abstract.
The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Fracking or hydraulic fracturing operations by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.
#CO2 Monitoring Could Be based'Space'in Future The measurement of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants
and compare emissions from the San juan Generating Station with those of the Four Corners Generating Station two large coal-fired power plants in northwest New mexico near the city of Farmington.
By using remote sensors on the ground to measure the carbon emissions from two of the Southwest s largest coal-fired power plants the study published in May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrated the strategy
For example coal accounts for 70 percent of energy used in China today primarily for electricity production
and its coal use is increasing according to a Climate Central analysis . But there are discrepencies in China's greenhouse gas emissions data
The U s. Environmental protection agency is releasing a proposed rule on June 2 that is expected to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired power plants including the two New mexico plants included in the Los alamos study.
and roasted a process that rids the nut of toxic oils and leaves its shell brittle and easy to remove.
Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods And in addition to the cashew's known nutritional benefits researchers have explored also the possibility of using the toxic oil found in the nut's shell as an antibiotic.
According to the researchers using cashew oil isn't an entirely new idea as the acid was used at one time in Brazil to treat leprosy.
Cashew nut oil as well as the leaves and bark of the cashew tree have also been used in traditional medicines in communities around the world to treat everything from toothaches to diabetes.
China and India saw their per capita carbon emission from fossil fuel and cement production go from about two tons and one ton respectively in 1990 to almost eight tons and two tons respectively in 2012.
We still don't know how much excess energy trapped by the continued increase of greenhouse gases is being stored On earth somewhere perhaps in the oceans
The World bank has taken the lead in funding climate adaptation and climate resilience projects all over the world in energy infrastructure transportation and agriculture.
are doomed we to rely on fossil fuels for eternity? The infinite potential to harness the inexhaustible energy of the sun is limited only by human imagination printable solar cells
and solar roadways are only the beginning. It is only a matter of time before nano solar cells produced from 3d printing will deliver wearable clothing
and technology that will allow us to travel in our driverless cars on solar roadways in our smart cities with no negative impacts on the environment.
Fossil fuels need only tide us over until our ingenuity will allow us to wean ourselves from them.
Steer serves on the executive board of the U n. secretary general's Sustainable Energy For All initiative.
and oil industries or illegal settlers from destroying forests. Stronger rights mean less deforestation a lot less.
and make energy. With chlorophyll out of the picture other pigments in the leaves have a chance to shine.
and are often gluten-free they may be fried in oils that are saturated high in and/or trans fats and many brands of chips are high in sodium.
Controlling blood sugar and maintaining energy For as sweet as they are sweet potatoes have a low glycemic index (sugar amount).
but you will get a steady amount of energy. It also means that sweet potatoes could be helpful in regulating blood sugar in people with TYPE II DIABETES (scientists are currently looking into it.
Used in refrigerants, propellants and solvents, CFCS were replaced initially with hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCS); now, chemical manufacturers have moved on to a third-generation replacement, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCS;
which is why markets will be needed to generate the kind of money necessary to realign the global energy system.
or even to provide direct support for energy efficiency projects. Steve Rayner, director of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at the University of Oxford, UK, says the idea has merit.
perhaps including fuel crops, and how they might be altered. They are also thinking of trying much higher resolution climate modelling to see
and they have great moral energy invested in'the oceans are going to rise'and so forth. They are,
This tremendous moral energy that is being inculcated in our youth is being channelled, almost exclusively in the United states to environmental questions.
We should be quadrupling to ten-tupling the amount of money we are putting in energy research and development on alternatives to provide the energy that people need to be prosperous without wrecking the climate.</
These include renewable energy technologies and the infrastructure to support them, the broader application of biotechnologies and expanding broadband connectivity.</
</br>In his Financial times column, 2008 On energy security: Tom Vilsack: Iowa is one of the nation's leading producers of corn-based ethanol,
but if we are going to create energy security we can't simply replace one imported source of energy with another.
Expanding domestic oil production will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and natural gas and significantly reduce the billions of dollars we send abroad each year.</
</br>Institute for 21st-Century Energy report, 2008 Chu: We want to raise grasses; we do not want to use soybeans for diesel oil or corn for ethanol.
That is not a good use of land.</</br>Lecture, 2008 On regulation and markets: Summers:
When the government steps up and it says that there is a requirement that you are going to have to take sulphur out of diesel fuel,
Our nation's demand for more and more energy compels us to move forward immediately on projects that will take years to finance and complete.
</br>Reduceoverlyburdensomeregulationsandopportunitiesforfrivolous litigation. aspx>Institute for 21st-Century Energy website On hope: Browner: I am a very optimistic person â Â
Although energy efficiency and the levels of industrial pollution discharges are now part of the assessment package
As demand for food and energy rises, such questions are more pressing than ever, he adds.
This means that the accumulating ground layer of flammable dry wood never gets thick enough to provide a major source of fuel for an enormous fire.
Lanza and his co-workers created their hybrid embryos using a process called somatic-cell nuclear transfer,
Furthermore, the nuclear genome may have difficulty communicating with energy-producing structures called mitochondria which are inherited directly from the mother,
This is a substantial amount, equivalent to almost 20%of carbon emissions from fossil-fuel burning. Tropical forest thus accounts for around 40%of the global terrestrial carbon sink.
California in clean-fuel drive: Nature Newsthe state of California has adopted regulations to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation fuels,
codifying evidence that biofuels are significantly dirtier than they were thought once to be. The California Air Resources Board approved its'low-carbon fuel standard'on 23 april,
requiring fuel providers to cut the greenhouse-gas emissions from fuels by 10%by 2020,
We really think this is the future of fuels policy globally says Anthony Eggert, a science adviser to the board.
He says the policy should send a signal to the private sector and drive clean transportation fuels and infrastructure into the market.
The regulation includes greenhouse-gas-emissions calculations for the life cycle of all fuels. To meet the requirement,
refiners and importers would have to improve their production methods or mix and match the fuels that they sell.
%or more, meaning that ethanol often results in higher greenhouse-gas emissions than gasoline. Matt Hartwig, a spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association in WASHINGTON DC, questions the science behind indirect emissions and says California has overstated vastly the problem.
Many researchers, however, think there is enough evidence to move forwards now and reevaluate as the science improves.
Dan Kammen, an energy researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, says California's calculation for indirect emissions is reasonably consistent with his team's work.
but the low-carbon fuel standard is exactly the right approach. The US Environmental protection agency is reviewing its own ruling that will establish greenhouse-gas criteria under the national biofuels mandate.
His work suggests that corn ethanol could double emissions compared with gasoline over 30 years.
is because California assumes that half of the food crops that are redirected towards energy will not be replaced because of rising prices,
although the indirect impact could be even higher because of massive emissions from expanding palm-oil plantations, particularly in Indonesia.
The California regulation also covers fuels produced from the Canadian tar sands, which produce more emissions than conventional oil because of the energy-intensive extraction process.
The low-carbon fuel standard could also prove a barrier to coal-based fuels, while providing a boost to vehicles powered by natural gas and electricity.
Research for development: Nature Newschris Whitty became head of research at the UK Department for International Development last month.
and coal-fired power generators would receive an estimated Aus$3. 9 billion (US$2. 7 billion) in assistance over 5 years.
as the US House of representatives energy and commerce committee was set to release a draft cap -and-trade bill as Nature went to press.
and maintain than many vehicles with internal combustion engines are also more efficient at converting that energy into motion.
'adopted last month, sets a greenhouse-gas standard for fuels and then allows companies to pick their technologies,
By contrast, US fuel policy is focused on biofuels. The federal mandate ramps up from 9 billion gallons of biofuels in 2008 (compared with almost 138 billion gallons of gasoline) to 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022.
On 5 may, the US Environmental protection agency proposed greenhouse-gas standards for various biofuels, but made no provision for electric transport.
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