Amanda Padovan who led this project explained The main defence against predation of Eucalyptus is a cocktail of terpene oils including monoterpenes sesquiterpenes and FPCS
#Discoveries of new exoplanets have flowed like oil from a gushing wellhead in recent years. The number has topped 850
and other industries fueled by coal natural gas and oil. Capturing and sequestering those emissions could play a significant role in curbing global warming.
The potential of spectral analysisused in everything from baked goods to trendy edamame and livestock feed to cooking oil the huge array of uses for soybeans has scientists looking for the most efficient ways to grow them.
and oil cracking processes and is used also in gas sensors sunscreen products and cosmetic creams.
and plant oils. The U s. currently does not have recommended a daily intake of omega-3s though many doctors and nutritionists recommend between 1200-1600 milligrams daily depending on a person's age and health.
The Madeira river basin for example is threatened by oil exploration deforestation and dams in its headwaters even though protected areas cover 26%of the catchment area.
when oil is heated to temperatures suitable for deep frying potentially carcinogenic compounds can form in the fried food.
These toxic compounds are increased with reuse of oil and increased length of frying time. Foods cooked with high heat also contain high levels of advanced glycation endproducts or AGES
and many other vegetables and gamma tocopherol which is relatively abundant in vegetable fats such as soybean corn and canola oils and margarine.
American dependence on foreign oil and greenhouse gas emissions. Accordingly the 2005 energy bill mandated that 4 billion gallons of renewable fuel be added to the gasoline supply in 2006.
and even sponges to soak up oil. Unfortunately carbon nanotubes are also the prima donna of nanomaterials;
The use of tree seed oils as a source could have several additional benefits over vegetable seed oils including lower viscosity and greater volatility both
and contains 50%oil which can be extracted at levels of 34 to 37%.%Sal can produce about 20%oil.
The oil is converted chemically to biodiesel using the process of transesterification which reacts the oily triglyceride content with alcohol using a catalyst.
The team has tested now successfully this chemistry on seeds from the mahua and sal trees.
It could also cut the cost of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for oil and gas recovery and help reboot American mining of rare earth metals he said.
Towering tankers block the horizon behind a vast field of cordgrass and pickleweed. Egrets and herons soar overhead as do airplanes and helicopters.
The nonsynthetic bed bug pesticides--which contain ingredients such as geraniol rosemary oil mint oil cinnamon oil peppermint oil eugenol clove oil lemongrass oil sodium lauryl sulfate
The adjuvants for clove oil evaluated were a petroleum oil adjuvant at 1. 25%by volume a commercial product containing 20%citric acid at a rate of 0. 375%by volume a commercial adjuvant containing 20%saponins
extracted from Yucca schidigera at 0. 03%by volume an emulsified petroleum insecticide at a rate of 1%by volume clove oil alone (no adjuvant) and a nontreated control.
In the USA tobacco and environmental taxation on electricity and petroleum is an important component in explaining problems with consumption.
From analysis of US data there is a large signaling effect seen for tobacco electricity and petroleum taxation.
--An unexpected result is for petroleum consumers appear to be more willing to change their consumption patterns in response to a tax increase than previously thought.
American politicians avoid especially these days to increase the price of petroleum because it is perceived as a hot potato issue where politicians do not want to risk voters'discontent says Erik Brockwell.
Tobacco and petroleum advertising and lobbying is an issue that often ends up as a blind spot says Erik Brockwell who also investigates the effect of the state's effort to reduce consumption
and the industry's attempt to increase consumption of cigarettes and petroleum in the United states.
For petroleum the results show that producer prices and state media expenditure campaigns on television radio magazines and newspapers effectively help to cut down the consumption on petroleum.
As with the tobacco industry lobbying by the petroleum industry effectively increases petroleum consumption. A strong policy recommendation here is that the US should focus more spending on state media expenditures
and information campaigns says Erik Brockwell. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Ume㥠universitet.
and we have to replace materials like oil-based fuels Bucksch said. Integral to this change will be understanding plants
The city of Trelleborg estimates that its beaches host an excess of algae that is equivalent to the energy from 2. 8 million litres of diesel fuel.
Even spices and cooking oil can be produced by algae. The brown algae known as sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) for example contain up to three times as much sugar as sugar beet.
and petroleum and is found in tobacco smoke. It is used primarily to make acetone and phenol.
It can be found in emissions from petroleum products. Inhalation exposure to cumene caused lung tumors in male and female mice and liver tumors in female mice.
fats oils and dressings and; carbonated soft drinks. In a second study published in the same issue researchers tie the effort back to a decline in the calorie content of purchases by American families
Advances in hydraulic fracturing put trillions of dollars'worth of previously unreachable oil and natural gas within humanity's grasp.
and oil due to fracking said Stanford environmental scientist Robert Jackson who led the new study.
Getting a fractured well going is more intense than for conventional oil and gas drilling with potential health threats arising from increases in volatile organic compounds and air toxics.
How oil and gas companies handle wastewater--fluid used to fracture the shale that flows back up the well
and water unleashed with the oil and gas--shows the importance of state policies. Wastewater disposal is one of the biggest issues associated with fracking said co-author Avner Vengosh a professor of geochemistry at Duke university.
The study also finds that the majority of this illegal destruction was driven by overseas demand for agricultural commodities including palm oil beef soy and wood products.
And in the forests of Indonesia 80%of deforestation was illegal--mostly for large-scale plantations producing palm oil and timber 75
of which wind up in cosmetics or household goods (palm oil) animal feed (soy) and packaging (wood products).
Export Agriculture a Key Driver of Illegal Deforestationaccording to the report the international trade in agricultural commodities (beef leather soy palm oil
The study estimates that almost 40%of all palm oil 20%of all soy nearly 33%of tropical timber
Nearly one-fifth (17%)of Brazilian beef 75%of Brazilian soy and 70-80%of the palm oil and plantation wood and pulp from Indonesia were destined for foreign markets.
Natural repellants such as clove oil citronella lemon grass eucalyptus castor oil peppermint lavender and cedar oil all work to a limited extent Pitts said
and black-footed albatross are facing increasing levels of oil contamination plastic pollution and greatly reduced amounts of prey fish due to commercial fishing operations.
and the United states. He found that 13 agricultural products--wheat soybean palm oil maize sugars and others--make up 80 percent of the world's diet and food trade.
#Texas producers find new oil fields: Olive grovestexas has been known for its oil production for almost 150 years.
Now a new oil industry is sprouting in what may bring producers cash and consumers a local edible choice--olive oil.
Olive trees native to the Mediterranean region have been documented on almost 800 acres in the state and many affiliated with the new industry believe the acreage is closer to 2000 according to Texas A&m Agrilife Extension service horticulturists.
For some growers the new crop represents a niche that can be marketed to a consumer base that is seeking healthy foods produced locally.
His research had determined also that the U s. is the third largest consumer of olive oil in the world
He built a building and bought an oil press from Italy knowing that not everyone who wants to grow olives will be able to buy a press.
and included the establishment of the Texas Olive oil Council in 1994. In 2002 the U s. Department of agriculture census had no record of olive production in Texas Nesbitt noted.
The researchers also found that people who consumed fruit more often had significantly lower blood pressure (BP.
Eating fruit daily was associated with 3. 4/4. 1 mmhg lower systolic/diastolic BP compared to those who never ate fruit.
Our data shows that eating fresh fruit was associated with lower baseline BP. We also found that the beneficial effect of fruit on the risk of CVD was independent of its impact on baseline BP.
In a separate analysis the researchers examined the association of fruit consumption with total mortality
People who eat a Mediterranean diet with foods such as olive oil whole grains and leafy vegetables and fruits have a lower risk of developing diabetes even
or additives within similarly shaped wine jars including honey storax resin terebinth resin cedar oil cyperus juniper and possibly mint myrtle and cinnamon.
which has been used to authenticate foods including honey and olive oil. They analyzed tomatoes grown in greenhouses and outdoors with conventional or organic fertilizers.
In the SYSDIET study the intervention group was advised to follow a healthy Nordic diet rich in berries vegetables fatty fish canola oil and whole grains.
Several blood biomarkers were assessed to reflect the consumption of different key components of the diet such as serum alpha linoleic acid as a biomarker of canola oil consumption EPA and DHA reflecting fatty
and vegetable waste rather than petroleum scientists are now reporting. The novel process they developed and their results
Also plastics are made out of petroleum which is a nonrenewable source. The shift to more environmentally friendly bioplastics has been challenging and expensive.
and has far-reaching economic impacts for other ionic liquid-based process technologies that currently use ionic liquids synthesized from petroleum sources.
which are made from nonrenewable sources such as petroleum or natural gas. Imidazolium-based ionic liquids effectively and efficiently dissolve biomass and represent a remarkable platform for biomass pretreatment
Previously we would add oils or infant formula to help premature babies grow but we can now use a natural source from donor milk said Hair.
Almost all existing fertilizers such as phosphorus and nitrate-based products are produced using energy-intensive methods involving the use of oil and gas.
and reduce costs to farmers as production of digestate-ash fertilizer would not be linked to the global price of oil and gas.
Stronger community forest rights could stem the tide of the country's rampant forest loss mostly due to palm oil expansion.
Recent findings published in Food Control journal online suggest Cinnamomum cassia oil can work effectively as a natural antibacterial agent in the food industry.
The cinnamon cassia oil is effective in low concentrations she said--about 10 drops diluted in a liter of water killed the bacteria within 24 hours.
The oil can be incorporated into films and coatings for packaging both meat and fresh produce Sheng said.
In addition to Cinnamomum cassia oil Sheng plans to take a look at another natural source to kill bacteria. She and her coworkers will study the potential of dandelions to inhibit bacteria related to bovine mastitis an infection in the mammary glands of dairy cows.
and cattle) but--as they were in use at the height of the empire--tokens could have been used to represent commodities such as oil wool and wine.
Palm oil is found in a large number of products from popcorn to candy to soap to cosmetics making growth of the tropical trees a very lucrative industry.
For people looking to do something about the palm oil problem themselves now is the time to start the researchers say.
If consumers do buy a product with palm oil in it and no label they should email call
or otherwise contact the company to ask them to start using sustainable palm oil and tell them they will not continue to buy their product until it is labeled to indicate this.
The rate at which the Caribbean corals have been declining is truly alarming says Carl Gustaf Lundin Director of IUCN's Global Marine and Polar Programme.
scientists sayif you've gone grocery shopping lately you've probably bought palm oil. Found in thousands of products from peanut butter
and packaged bread to shampoo and shaving cream palm oil is a booming multibillion-dollar industry. While it isn't always clearly labeled in supermarket staples the unintended consequences of producing this ubiquitous ingredient have been publicized widely.
and pesticide application) and processing of oil palm fruits to make crude palm oil can all send sediment nutrients
Palm oil epicenterindonesia produces almost half of the world's palm oil. Home to the world's third-largest tropical forest the country is also one of the principal emitters of greenhouse gases due to the rapid conversion of carbon-rich forests and peatlands to other uses.
These kinds of improved practices are being pioneered by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm oil and other organizations that certify palm oil production as sustainable.
Yet Carlson said Our findings suggest that converting logged forests and diverse smallholder agricultural lands to oil palm plantations may be almost as harmful to stream ecosystems as clearing intact forests.
and palm oil the rapid growth rate of sugar cane has put it at the forefront of biofuel crops.
when ethanol is burned in lieu of gas and oil. With over 2. 5 million square kilometers of existing cleared lands in Brazil much of which is degraded pasture lands there is already a large potential area for biofuel crop expansion.
Charcoal powder could easily replace oil in these installations at times of peak load says Skreiberg.
and tars bio-oils) says Skreiberg. Skreiberg hopes that an industrial company such as Elkem which now uses imported charcoal will get involved
Synthetic antioxidants also preserve fats and oils in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. The phenolics extracted during the UF study on the other hand are natural not synthetic antioxidants. â#oethis concept of using natural antioxidants in many different things in the food world is a nice concept to consumersâ#he said.
#Canola oil may be an oil of choice for people with type 2 diabetescanola*is Canada's oil
and new research from St michael's Hospital suggests it should also be one of the oils of choice for people with Type 2 diabetes.
Dr. David Jenkins head of the hospital's Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre compared people with Type 2 diabetes who ate either a low glycemic index diet that included bread made with canola oil
The word canola is a contraction of Canada and ola meaning oil. It was developed from rapeseed at the University of Manitoba in the 1970s.
Canola oil contains only 7 per cent saturated fat less than half that of olive oil widely touted for its health benefits.
and olive oil reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Jenkins said the combination of a low GI diet supplemented with canola oil had not been tested before on people with Type 2 diabetes.*
*This research was funded by the Canola Council of Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Loblaw Companies and the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Most of the work was centered on urushiol the rash-causing chemical found in the plant's oils.
and the oil can remain active on dead plants up to five years. But rather than focusing on urushiol Jelesko set about studying ways to kill the plant itself.
and its itch-inducing oil urushiol. Humans appear to be uniquely allergic to urushiol said Jelesko.
and fiberfrom antiseptic oils to the construction of didgeridoos the traditional Australian Aboriginal wind instrument the eucalyptus tree serves myriad purposes accounting for its status as one of the world's most widely planted hardwood trees.
but is reduced notably in southern Europe where a'Mediterranean diet'consisting of a larger consumption of fruit vegetables and olive oil predominates.
when it is consumed pureed in ketchup or in the presence of olive oil. Whilst there is strong epidemiological evidence to support the role of lycopene in reducing cardiovascular risk the mechanism by
However an equivalent amount is lost through logging clearing of land for grazing and growing biofuel crops such as palm oil soya bean and sugar.
When forests are cleared-for palm oil plantations agriculture or livestock--we lose vital resources put animals at risk of extinction
In addition to these policies the development of oil and mineral resources led to rapid urbanization which drew people from the rural areas to pursue jobs in larger cities.
Each pore opens to a hair follicle containing a gland that produces oil called sebum which helps keep skin soft.
When the glands produce too much oil the pores can become blocked and dirt bacteria and dead skin cells can build up in them forming the whiteheads blackheads pimples
Hormonal changes are associated with the excess production of oil --thus partially accounting for acne flare-ups in teens and pregnant women--and heredity can be a factor
If the oil and gas industry does not respond to concerns about carbon dioxide and other emissions it could well face new regulations Tour said noting the White house issued its latest National Climate Assessment last month and this week set new rules to cut carbon pollution from the nation
or use it for enhanced oil recovery to further the release of oil and natural gas. Or they can package
Apache Corp. a Houston-based oil and gas exploration and production company funded the research at Rice
which oil and coal extraction companies then pump into underground geological formations and wells and cap;
and carbon content in diesels and oils from January 2015. Aston University (UK) scientists are involved in the Reship project
Via the process of fast pyrolysis where material is heated in the absence of oxygen the wood will be converted into crude pyrolysis oil.
Compared to petroleum-based oil however crude pyrolysis oil cannot be used for direct use in diesel engines as it is too unstable.
To counter this the Aston team led by Professor Tony Bridgwater will look to stabilise freshly produced pyrolysis biofuel through mild rapid low temperature catalytic hydrogen treatment.
In cooperation with the Paper and Fibre Research Institute in Norway they will also seek to blend the bio-oil with conventional diesel
In Scandinavia fast pyrolysis oil production is rapidly becoming commercialized. Energy company Fortum is to invest â0m in an integrate bio-oil plant
while Swedish packing firm Billerud received â2m from the European commission to build a new biofuel plant based on forest residues.
and oils may reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering bad cholesterol. We killed two birds with one stone
#Oil, gas development homogenizing core-forest bird communitiesconventional oil and gas development in northern Pennsylvania altered bird communities and the current massive build-out of shale-gas infrastructure may accelerate these changes according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural
But they are being affected negatively in areas where there are high densities of shallow oil and gas wells says Margaret Brittingham professor of wildlife resources who conducted a study of bird communities in the Allegheny National Forest.
The national forest on the extensively forested Allegheny Plateau in northwestern Pennsylvania has more than 14000 active oil and gas wells.
Our results revealed changes in avian guilds resulting from oil and gas development and suggest that a loss of community uniqueness is a consequence.
Lead researcher Emily Thomas at the time a graduate student advised by Brittingham surveyed birds in 50-acre blocks selected for their varied amount of oil and gas development.
or absence of different songbird species in a range of landscapes including undisturbed forest low-density oil and gas development and high-density development.
and other openings created by oil and gas development are doing to bird populations said Brittingham.
or development were more abundant near oil and gas development than within undisturbed forest--potentially displacing the forest specialists.
Deep horizontal shale gas wells differ substantially from shallow conventional oil and gas wells in many ways.
#Vitamin e in canola, other oils hurts lungsa large new Northwestern Medicineâ study upends our understanding of Vitamin e and ties the increasing consumption of supposedly healthy Vitamin e-rich
oils--canola soybean and corn--to the rising incidence of lung inflammation and possibly asthma.
The form of Vitamin e called gamma-tocopherol in the ubiquitous soybean corn and canola oils is associated with decreased lung function in humans the study reports.
and sunflower oils does the opposite. It associated with better lung function. Considering the rate of affected people we found in this study there could be 4. 5 million individuals in the U s. with reduced lung function
and butter to soybean canola and corn oils which were thought to be healthier for the heart Looking at other countries'rates of asthma Cook-Mills said those with significantly lower rates of asthma have diets high in olive and sunflower oils.
In the U s. asthma prevalence (the percentage of people who have been diagnosed with asthma and still have asthma) was 8. 4 percent in 2010 as reported by the U s. Department of health and human services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
or more times higher than those of European and Scandinavian countries that consume sunflower and olive oil Cook-Mills noted.
and sunflower oil have the lowest rate of asthma and those that consume soybean corn and canola oil have the highest rate of asthma Cook-Mills said.
When people consume alpha-tocopherol which is rich in olive oil and sunflower oil their lung function is better.
The study examined 4526 individuals from the Coronary artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA.
Cook-Mills had done previous allergy research in mice showing alpha-tocopherol decreased lung inflammation protecting healthy lung function and gamma-tocopherol increased lung
#Why you need olive oil on your salada diet that combines unsaturated fats with nitrite-rich vegetables such as olive oil
The Mediterranean diet typically includes unsaturated fats found in olive oil nuts and avocados along with vegetables like spinach celery and carrots that are rich in nitrites and nitrates.
The findings of our study help to explain why previous research has shown that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil
Natural gas â#that once seemingly promising link between the era of oil and coal to the serenity of sustainable solar wind and water power â#is a major source of atmospheric methane due to widespread
By reducing methane emissions society buys some critical decades of lower temperatures. â#oesociety needs to wean itself from the addiction to fossil fuels as quickly as possibleâ#Howarth said. â#oebut to replace some fossil fuels â#coal oil
and oil that emit more carbon dioxide and local air pollutants. But extracting processing and transporting the fuel can result in emissions of methane--itself a potent greenhouse gas.
If natural gas is expensive then it will be more costly to switch away from fuels that have higher greenhouse gas emissions such as coal and oil.
and other species. A new report calls for saving half of boreal forest acreage to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species. The northern landscape is beset with oil gas mining
Southern boreal forests have already been affected by oil and gas mining forest product industries hydropower and roads and infrastructure.
which is released from natural sources such as wetlands as well as from human activities including waste management the oil and gas industries rice production and livestock farming.
despite the positive public perception of biocontainers'environmental benefits as alternatives to petroleum-based plastic pots the impact of biocontainers on commercial greenhouse sustainability has not been evaluated thoroughly.
#Protecting olive oil from counterfeiterswho guarantees that expensive olive oil isn't counterfeit or adulterated? An invisible label developed by ETH researchers could perform this task.
and mixed with the oil. Just a few grams of the new substance are enough to tag the entire olive oil production of Italy.
If counterfeiting were suspected the particles added at the place of origin could be extracted from the oil and analyzed enabling a definitive identification of the producer.
The method is equivalent to a label that cannot be removed says Robert Grass lecturer in the Department of chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich.
The confiscated goods also included more than 131000 litres of oil and vinegar. A forgery-proof label should
To ensure that the particles can be fished out of the oil as quickly and simply as possible Grass and his team employed another trick:
Experiments in the lab showed that the tiny tags dispersed well in the oil and did not result in any visual changes.
The magnetic iron oxide meanwhile made it easy to extract the particles from the oil.
Unbelievably small quantities of particles down to a millionth of a gram per litre and a tiny volume of a thousandth of a litre were enough to carry out the authenticity tests for the oil products write the researchers.
if the concentration of nanoparticles does not match the original value other oil--presumably substandard--must have been added.
But will consumers buy expensive'extra-virgin'olive oil when synthetic DNA nanoparticles are floating around in it?
Nanoreporters tell sour oil from sweetscientists at Rice university have created a nanoscale detector that checks for
The Rice team capitalized on that work by using the probes to create downhole detectors for oil fields.
Even a 1 percent trace of sulfur turns oil into what's known as sour crude
and Mason Tomson and researcher Amy Kan the university has pioneered efforts to gather information from oil fields through the use of nanoreporters.
and amount of oil in a well that might otherwise be hard to assess. Now the same team joined by chemist Angel Martã is employing thermally stable soluble highly mobile carbon black-based nanoreporters modified to look for hydrogen sulfide and report results immediately upon their return to the surface.
because we're making our nanoreporters detect something that's not oil Wong said suggesting the possibility that nanoparticles may someday be able to capture sulfur compounds before they can be pumped to the surface.
Testing in beds of sandstone or with actual Kuwaiti dolomite to mimic oilfield environments helped the team perfect the size
and value of the afforded oil. Authors include graduate students Lu Wang Errol Samuel Changsheng Xiang Zhiwei Peng and Kewei Huang;
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