This is particularly useful during periods of inadequate rainfall. 6. Threshing machine/combine harvester Invented in the late 18th century,
The Environmental protection agency sets the limits at levels that it says do not harm humans. When we began this project,
a senior analyst with the Environmental Working group, which publishes lists highlighting the fruits and vegetables with the lowest and highest amounts of pesticide residues.
the environmental impact of large-scale conventional farming and the potential public health threat if antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes jumped to human pathogens.
said Ms. Lunder, the Environmental Working group analyst. Rather, the motivation is to reduce exposure to pesticides, especially for pregnant women and their young children.
Upgrading Distribution Inside a spartan garage in an industrial neighborhood in Palo alto, Calif, . a robot armed with electronic eyes
and to carefully controlled environments where the lighting was just right. But thanks to an inexpensive stereo camera and software that lets the system see shapes with the same ease as humans,
yet these days some former employees describe a work environment that was too hectic and stressful, thanks in large part to the runaway popularity of the iphone and ipad.
We ve found a way to make a little power off it without any environmental impact.#
and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way. A plant can even be said to have a memory.
It means that plants can t escape a bad environment, can t migrate in the search of food or a mate.
So plants had to develop incredibly sensitive and complex sensory mechanisms that would let them survive in ever changing environments.
They need to feel the weather, and they need to smell danger. And then they need to be able to integrate all of this very dynamic and changing information.
exchanging information on cellular, physiological and environmental states. For example root growth is dependent on a hormonal signal that s generated in the tips of shoots
All this leads to highway turbulence, which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A c. C.)#which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it#as the key to congestion relief.
A Nice Little Cabin in the Sky The typical plane cabin is drier than the Arizona desert,
This brutal environment contributes to the parched exhausted feeling you get after you fly. But there are already planes in the air#made mostly of carbon fiber#that solve this problem.
which means that the interior air pressure can be adjusted to more comfortable levels without the risk of damaging the fuselage.
and the less aware they ll be of their surroundings. Leif Kennair and Ellen Sandseter s ideas have won the support of playground experts on both sides of the Atlantic;
and release a flood of mood-lifting endorphins. But for various reasons#you re at work,
They re also attracting chemicals and environmental toxins, which are getting passed along in breast milk.
and how toxins from the environment may be affecting hormones and breast development. She says many of those toxins,
#Wind farms might be warming the planet New research indicates that large wind farms can cause local temperature increases.
New research finds that wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, according to new research.
It s a phenomena that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution.
which has built four of the world s largest wind farms. The data showed a direct correlation between nighttime temperatures increases of 0. 72 degrees C (1. 3 degrees F) and the placement of the farms.
Given the present installed capacity and the projected growth in installation of wind farms across the world,
I feel that wind farms, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional meteorology,
Albany and author of the paper published April 29 in Nature Climate Change said in an e-mail to Discovery News. Analysts say wind power is a good complement to solar power,
because winds often blow more strongly at night while solar power is only available during daytime hours.
But Zhou and his colleagues found that turbulence behind the wind turbine blades stirs up a layer of cooler air that usually settles on the ground at night
#The year-to-year land surface temperature over wind farms shows a persistent upward trend from 2003 to 2011, consistent with the increasing number of operational wind turbines with time,
FAA data shows that the number of wind turbines over the study region has risen from 111 in 2003 to 2358 in 2011, according to the study.
as well as change local rainfall patterns. Texas wind farms produce more than 10,000 megawatts of electricity, more than double the capacity of the nearest state, Iowa,
director of the Center for Bioinspired Wind Energy at the California Institute of technology who is an expert on wind power design.
because wind speed decreases as you move closer to the ground; so the smaller turbines would experience lower incoming wind speeds on average.#
#That means a smaller turbine makes less power. Dabiri said Zhou s findings may mean taking a second look at the trade-offs with renewable energy.
It shows that we need to think carefully about the unintended environmental consequences of any large-scale energy development,
which can have errors from clouds, for example, rather than temperature readings taken at the surface.
Our local interstellar environment. IBEX data shows that our Solar system is located currently within the boundary of the Local Cloud.
Image Credit: IBEX team, M. Paternostro (The Adler Planetarium), Dr. P. Frisch (University of Chicago), Dr. S. Redfield (Wesleyan University) First The Interstellar Cloud That Physics
Says Should Not Exist The solar system is passing through a region of the Milky way filled with cosmic rays and interstellar clouds.
The magnetic field of our own sun, inflated by the solar wind into a bubble called the heliosphere, #substantially protects us from these things.
This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together and solves the longstanding puzzle of how it can exist at all.#
and stretches almost all the way across the sky, suggesting that the magnetic field behind it must be equally vast.
This so-called Local Interstellar Cloud is immersed in a much larger expanse of a million-degree hot gas,
SRC/Tentaris, ACH/Maciej Frolow) Is the Sun going to enter soon a million-degree galactic cloud of interstellar gas?
discovered last year by a NASA Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by a geometric effect coming up because of approach of the Sun to the boundary between the Local Cloud of interstellar gas
and another cloud of a very hot gas called the Local Bubble. If this hypothesis is correct,
IBEX is catching matter from a hot neighboring interstellar cloud, which the Sun might enter in a hundred years.
enough to form new stars out of clouds of gas and dust. That is our constantly recreating, recharging amazing Universe!
They weren t sure there even was an interstellar cloud, didn t know it was held magnetically together,
climate changes, strange animal die offs and the quickly moving magnetic poles. Don t forget, we re also experiencing a great culmination of cycles called the Harmonic Convergence as we line up with the Galactic center
associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health, write that the new research provides convincing evidence#of the link between imidacloprid and the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in
what is normally present in the environment.##Pinpointing the cause of the problem is crucial
#Bosco Verticale world s first vertical forest Bosco Verticale A forest will soon be planted in the sky in Milan, Italy.
and dust particles reducing noise pollution to the building improving the microclimate saving energy by sheltering the building from solar radiation in summer reducing rainwater run off
Alexander Felson, Director of the Urban Ecology and Design Laboratory at Yale university, agrees that there will potentially be microclimate and air particulate removal benefits,
The big picture is much more grim because of the ecological ramifications of our industrialized food system.
Rachel Carson s Silent Spring first shined a light on the ecological ramifications of potent pesticide use.
Instead, through the establishment of the National Organic Program in 1992, a small agricultural group was left untainted and conventional crops were left to wreak havoc on our environment and our bodies at a much cheaper price.
and prevent rampant disease from striking animals that are kept in filthy, stressful environments. In fact, many common bacteria (such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),
help the environment and make it easier to feed the world s growing population. Hard data is still being collected,
Experts say reducing waste is a simple way to cut stress on the environment while easing pressure on farmers,
The U s. Environmental protection agency said 33 million tons of food waste hit landfills and incinerators in 2010, the largest solid waste product in the system.
EPA has launched a program to address the issue. Experts from EPA and other groups have floated a variety of recommended fixes.
They say clarifying sell by #and use by#dates could help consumers avoid throwing food in the garbage too soon.
Environmental and public health advocates are concerned about the safety of biotechnology already in the field, while agribusiness pushes forward with more new products.
#Dennis miller. VW s post climate change prototype vehicle...Have you ever felt you were in a farmers dreams?..
One year after the Tsunami and things are still glowing...Trump likes to wake to the smell of shredding money in the morning...
Social media can distort your surroundings until they are no longer recognizable...I m sorry!#.#Ginger initially thought her name came from her grandmother...
concern for the environment or a growing emphasis on health, but Americans are eating less meat.
as well as the environmental impact of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing water usage and reducing the use of fossil fuels.
#Planting trees in the Mongolian Desert to fight dangerous dust storms in Seoul A nomadic family outside their ger (yurt) in the Gobi desert near Choir, Mongolia.
It s not quite the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings creating a hurricane across the world,
but desertification in Mongolia is generating dangerous dust storms thousands of miles away. Former South korean Ambassador to China Kwon Byong Hyon made the connection more than a decade ago,
and the air quality his own children are exposed to back home in Seoul Dust storms More Frequent,
Intense Intense dust storms have blown across Korea throughout recorded history, but their frequency and intensity have increased in recent decades,
profiling Kwon s crusade to combat the yellow clouds at their source, hundred of miles away in the Gobi desert of China and Mongolia.#
the very source of the much-feared yellow dust storms,#according to the Korea Herald. For his work, he has been named the first Sustainable Land Management Champion#by the United nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
According to the EPA, in 2010, more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated in America. That s more than any other waste category but paper.
Over five years of digging through forest beds in the rain, the team has identified an entirely new family of amphibians called chikilidae endemic to the region but with ancient links to Africa.
The same sensitivity to climate and water quality that makes them perfect environmental barometers also puts them at the greatest risk
when ecological systems go awry. Biju, however, is working the reverse trend. Since 2001, he has discovered 76 new species of plants,
and others are spread across the tropics in Southeast asia, Africa and South america. There is debate about the classifications,
(or hydraulic fracturing) is exempt from many of the federal statutes meant to safeguard the environment
People who are lucky enough to live in warmer climates can keep the fresh greens coming year-round,
Spotted salamanders exposed to contaminated roadside ponds are adapting to their toxic environments, according to a Yale paper in Scientific Reports.
and set the stage for fast evolution,#said Steven Brady, the study s author and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
These animals are growing up in harsh environments where they face a cocktail of contaminants,
if these adaptive responses will keep pace with environmental change.##Brady observed the development of the salamanders in 10 ponds#five roadside and five woodland#at Yale Myers Forest and in the town of Willington, both in northeastern Connecticut.
as well as global climate and human health strategies. In a paper published in Biogeosciences, researchers show how ozone pollution generated in each of the Northern hemisphere s major industrialized regions (Europe, North america and South East asia) damages six important agricultural crops (wheat, maize
a senior lecturer in atmospheric composition at the University of Leeds s School of Earth and Environment, who led the study,
Dr Lisa Emberson a senior lecturer from the University of York s Stockholm Environment Institute and Environment Department, said:
Environmental Health News highlights the failed hope of GM crop developers: That these proprietary crops will stay where they are planted
invested in Monsanto, supports a high-tech vision of agriculture, rather than the low-tech, affordable, diverse, climate-resistant,
that he finds it ironic that most people who oppose genetic engineering in plant breeding live in rich nations that he believes are responsible for global climate change that will lead to more starvation and malnutrition for the poor.
Resistance to new technology is again hurting the people who nothing to do with climate change happening,
But, like his absurd statements on climate change and renewable energy, his focus on high-tech agriculture,
and schools will be locked into Apple s ecosystem. It s an ecosystem so expensive that it will only help the privileged few.
The cost of ipads, digital textbooks, and the infrastructure to support them will prevent most schools from offering this technology to their students,
and a new air pressure sensor that allows it to be more stable when hovering. That said, these drones have very short battery life (10 min max),
or situational conditions such as announcing the sale of umbrellas during the start of a rainstorm. 11.)
or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. Panasonic at CES 21.
as a six-year old boy named Falcon had gotten somehow trapped inside a small weather balloon that was flying over the Midwest.
Henry ford s vision of the Sky Car is now here and the popular Aeromobil models can often be spotted over the capital,
#12 amazing examples of environmental art ives of Grass by Mathilde Roussel Soil, wheat seeds, recycled metal and fabric Brooklyn, New york,
2010 Aleta Florentin of Amber Lotus Publishing curated a new 2014 calendar that brings some of the best examples of environmental art all together in one place.
This inspiring genre of art beautifully incorporates its natural surroundings in a way that s surprising and often times meaningful.
what you can expect to find inside the 2014 Environmental Art Calendar. After the Chaos by Bob Verschueren Spruce and ash trees Arte Sella, Malga Costa, Italy, 2010 Listen#by Olga Ziemska Plaster hand casts and locally reclaimed birch logs Oronsko
and end the ecological disaster that constitutes contemporary factory farming. This will include hydroponic plants for fruits
and playing with each other in full immersion visual-auditory virtual environments. By the 2030s we will add the tactile sense to full immersion virtual reality.
The event was called the Boulder Flood Relief Joint Giveaway. But easy as Boulder may be to mock,
The highways and test tracks they navigated were controlled strictly environments. The instant more variables were added#pedestrian,
Its robotic Humvee, Sandstorm, drove just seven and a half miles before careering off course. A helicopter later found it beached on an embankment,
His robots had crawled over Antarctic ice fields and active volcanoes, and inspected the damaged nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Carnegie mellon with its two military vehicles, Sandstorm and Highlander; Stanford with its puny Volkswagen Touareg, nicknamed Stanley.
They had Highlander run at a fast clip#ore than twenty miles an hour on average#hile Sandstorm hung back a little.
it was more than ten minutes ahead of Sandstorm and more than twenty minutes ahead of Highlander.
Books are only the tip of the information iceberg: they are there, and libraries can provide you freely and legally with books.
but it also raises questions about environmental safety and biosecurity and revives ethical debates about#oeplaying God.#
Proponents characterize bio-factories as examples of#oegreen technology#that are sustainable and immune to fickle weather and disease.
reducing the cultivation of cash crops in places where that practice hurts the environment, break our dependence on pesticides
But some environmental groups are skeptical. They compare the spread of bio-factories to the large-scale burning of coal at the turn of the 20th century#a development with implications for carbon dioxide emissions
and break down oil spills and other contaminated waste at a rapid pace. Revenue from industrial chemicals made through synthetic biology is already as high as $1. 5 billion,
#That justification has caused an uproar among some consumer protection and environmental groups. They say that representing Evolva s laboratory-grown flavoring as something similar to vanilla extract from an orchid plant is deceptive,
or even protocols for assessing the safety of synthetic organisms in the environment, #Thomas said.
Amyris s Newman says he is confused by environmental groups criticism and points to the final chapter of Rachel Carson s#oesilent Spring##the seminal book that is credited with launching the environmental movement.
In it Carson mentions ways that science can solve the environmental hazards we have endured through years of use of fossil fuels and petrochemicals.#
#oethe question you have to ask yourself is, #Is the status quo enough?####Newman said.##oewe live in a world where things can be improved upon.#
#but not combusting#in a low-oxygen environment is converted to hydrogen gas, is nothing new.
Global climate change is a result of too much carbon being put into the sky, most scientists agree,
and you have a point-cloud: a 3-D model mapped at a 1: 1 scale and accurate down to the centimeter.
too, is seen as the tip of the iceberg. Wayne Gerdes, the father of#oehypermiling,#can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers: They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025;
especially in an environment that consists of mostly whites and grays. Because of the limited space on the ISS, growing a full-scale garden there isn t feasible,
#Tapping into the Waterways in the Sky Futurist Thomas Frey: With all of the water we have in the world,
Later the Incas were able to sustain their culture above rain line by collecting dew
Since we all depend on the rains to provide the water we need, what if we could extract this rain at the very time
and place we need it? On-demand water extractors. A new breed of inventors has emerged to tackle this exact problem.
These small-scale agricultural operations require high humidity environments, and The Aquamist produced a water-replenishing environment to satisfy those needs.
More about the other entries here http://grabcad. com/challenges/atmospheric-water-generator/entries Meet the Water Harvesters A new breed of companies has begun to spring up around the world,
looking to the skies to solve the world s looming water issues. These companies are using a variety of technologies to drive costs down for extracting water from air.
Fogquest http://www. fogquest. org Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries
Their fog collectors can be used in dry regions and even deserts that receive less than one millimeter of rain each year.
But to work, they do require fog and light winds. Eolewater http://www. eolewater. com/Living in the Caribbean in 1997, inventor Marc Parent came up with the idea of using a windmill to extract water from the air.
With a French venture capital investment Parent moved the company to Sainte Tulle, France. After many years of development and testing, the WMS1000 (shown above) became the world s first wind turbine able to produce 1, 000 liters of water a day from air condensation.
The first unit was shipped to Abu dhabi for extended testing in the extreme weather conditions of the Middle east.
Airdrop http://www. jamesdysonaward. org/Projects/Project. aspx? ID=1722 Developed by James Dyson Award winner, Edward Linnacre, the Airdrop irrigation concept was developed for poor agricultural conditions in periods of severe drought.
It works well for collecting water in virtually any environment, even in polluted areas. About 12 gallons of fresh water can be extracted from air in a single day from one 300 sq ft unit.
Dropnet Fog Collector http://www. greenmuze. com/nature/water/2358-fog-harvesting-dropnet. -html Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany s Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.
The collectors extracts tiny water droplets from fog clouds and turns them into drinking water at a rate of roughly 4-5 gallons a day.
Mist Water Canarias http://www. aguadeniebla. com/Developed over the past 5 years on the Canary islands by Hernando Theo Olmo and Ricardo Gil,
and weather conditions soon. 3. Wireless Electricity The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think:
namely, wind resistance. To be fair, eliminating this factor doesn t so much up the ante as it blows up the entire house containing the card table.
#oewe no longer can afford to continue to pollute our skies with heat, chemicals and noise,
and the environment needs, said Powell, the maglev pioneer.##oewe had the Apollo project and people got really excited about that.
Drones, however, have the ability to amp up awareness, giving farmers powerful tools for managing both the plant and its growing environment throughout its lifecycle.
and obstacle mapping Hybrid lifecycle charting Chlorophyll damage detection Ground cover profiling Wind profile and wind shear assessment Temperature
and barometric pressure profiling Spore, dust, pollen counts Water quality assessments and survey Methane, ammonia, and CO2 sensing Trait assessment for breeding Wireless data collection from ground sensors Plant status tracking Crop status (growing stage, yield estimates, etc.)
and can be flown in harsh environments, between-13 degrees F up to 140 degrees. The system can monitor moisture levels
protection drones may even be able to compensate for extreme weather conditions by applying warm foam during freezing conditions
and even using wave frequencies to disrupt hail and other extreme weather conditions. Eventually there will be flying drones with lasers mounted on them.
In the end, the world will grow far more food, to far more exacting quality standards, under virtually any weather conditions.
container shipping overcame its rivals with the inevitability of a rising tide.##oefrom whiskey distillers in Scotland to apple growers in Australia, major users of international shipping abandoned breakbulk freight as soon as regular container shipping was able to meet their needs,
like the environmental impact of container shipping. The boxes themselves are simply storage; the pollution involved with in transporting them depends on how they re moved.
When Hurricane Katrina closed ports in and around Louisiana that handle a significant share of America s food imports and exports
And Hurricane Sandy closed terminals in Newark and New york for days, forcing shippers to route their cargo to ports elsewhere on the East Coast.
or any RNA, could survive this trip from the mouth, with all these enzymes in saliva, down into the stomach, with the acidic environment there,
#35 of the most shocking science facts that are totally wrong Lightning does strike twice.
#that if we were to design an almost perfect anti-brain environment, it would look like our current classrooms and work cubicles.
and salad greens Growup s Kickstarter-funded aquaponic farm is a circular ecosystem with 150 fish, all self-contained in a box.
Linden Lab envisioned an entire ecosystem of user-generated content. Yet many VCS refused to fund it because,
is an investor/adviser of Cloud Party, an innovative, web-based 3d virtual world seemingly designed to specifically avoid all of Linden Lab s early mistakes and pitfalls.
which helps reduce the atmospheric emissions from the manufacturing process as well as providing an environment in
Record heat, high winds, low humidity, and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created#oeperfect storm#conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.
Operating drones day and night through inclement conditions like wind hail, and rain will require an enormous effort.
But so does a full-frontal attack on a fire by smokejumpers, bucket-bearing helicopters,
Mankind s awareness of our food supplies has been heightened by massive crop failures due to millennial level floods, protracted droughts,
or is it causing irreparable damage to the environment that will eventually turn today s serious problem of today into a food crisis of epic proportions in the near future?
Drier weather patterns caused the failure of this single crop their civilisation depended upon a mono-crop dependent upon a constant source of water to survive.
Indoor farms (controlled environment agriculture or CEA) will undoubtedly replace most outdoor urban agricultural initiatives as the advantages of farming within protected environments become more widely accepted.
In doing so, ecosystems that were fragmented in favour of farmland could be allowed to regain most of their ecological functions,
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