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whose details had been lost to the passage of time and the decay of the jungle. The going was tough,

and study forests and other vegetation. He suggested they give it a go. So, in 2009, the pair packed away their machetes

In less than a week, the team collected more data than they had in a quarter of century of hacking their way through the jungle.

from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies and detecting the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

So, in the case of areas covered in a forest canopy such as in Caracol, some of the pulses will hit the top of tree canopy, some the middle, others the forest floor.

Software can then be used to remove the points above the ground, according to University of Alabama archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak,

This leaves a detailed"digital elevation  model of the hidden forest floor with the ability to pick out features as small as 20cm across."

and the thousand other misfortunes that an expedition to the jungle can encounter. Fisher, however, puts it more bluntly:"

also currently obscured by forests. Other targets include Sri lanka, India and other sites around Southeast asia.

#Student in Kenya Invents Solar Powered Forest fire Detector Kenya Forest Services workers use branches to put out a fire at Karura forest in Nairobi.

Efforts to curb forest loss around the world as a means of cutting carbon emissions just got a boost:

then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. oethe heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,

he said. oeonce the forest station receives the alert, the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire.

Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land. Thirty-five percent of the already heavily deforested Mau Forest Complex was lost to fire, according to Noor Hassan Noor, an administrator in Kenyas Rift valley province.

Noor called the new fire reporting device a potentially useful part of Kenyas effort to keep forest fires in check. oethis is an interesting invention

#The Sahara Forest Project A Renewable Energy Oasis The Sahara Forest Project The Sahara Forest Project is a unique combination of proven environmental technologies,

A trio of visionaries launched the Sahara Forest Project: their proposal to combine two innovative technologies, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) and Seawater Greenhouses,

The Sahara Forest Project is one of the first projects weve seen that proposes not only to combine technologies to optimise performance and production

Positive Collaboration The most exciting aspect of the Sahara Forest Project is not specifically the use of these technologies.

How will the Sahara Forest Project work? These CSP/Seawater Greenhouse technologies will work together at a location some distance from the north coast of Africa, hopefully at a point below sea level

Commercial Synergies The Sahara Forest Project team tell us that the innovative interaction between the two technologies helps each to function more efficiently:

In conclusion the Sahara Forest Project works on many levels. By combining the benefits of Concentrated Solar power

Some of this capability is available now in rudimentary form in computer games where the controller shakes to indicate an on-screen car collision. 2. Seeing the forest,

a technician named Kevin Timmer who worked at the Woodland Mall store in Grand Rapids, Mich.,

and it s awesome. 1. Electric Clothes Physicists at Wake Forest University have developed a fabric that doubles as a spare outlet.

and Yemen. Reclaimed desert around the capital is a lush green tapestry of farmland and tropical forest,

A vanilla flavoring that promises to be significantly cheaper than the costly extract made from beans grown in rain forests is scheduled to hit the markets in 2014.

Cultivated in the remote forests of Madagascar, Mexico and the West indies, natural vanilla is one of the world s most revered spices.

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

Some of the planned uses are for forests camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption.

The True Cost of Forest fires In 2012 the U s. Forest Service had a budget of $948 million for fire suppression, a decrease of nearly $500 million from 2011.

A 2010 report titled#oethe True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U s.#published by the Western Forestry Leadership Coalition challenged traditional methods for calculating the cost of forest fires.

After a thorough investigation of the fire by the U s. Forestry Service, the true costs were recalculated as follows:

However, this same technology can be modified to work on flying drones to monitor fire activity on forestlands.

In 2012 the U s. Forest Service, which manages over 35 million acres of forests, made a major policy shift,

deciding to intervene on all fires, something environmentalists contend will cause significant long-term damage. As an example, the Northern Rockies have a long history of wilderness fire

and the National park service so far have not followed the Forest Service s lead. So if we have the capability of spotting fires very early

Admittedly, managing a 24/7-drone fleet over our massively huge forestlands will be no small undertaking.

Starting with only a portion of the combined budgets of the U s. Forest Service bureau of Land Management,

Chris Reij, a sustainable land management specialist at VU University Amsterdam, has studied reforestation efforts there,

limited supplies of cheap wood meant that split-rail fencing cost more than the land it enclosed.

The US Forest Service over in Globe, Arizona, is interested in possibly using virtual fencing. Some of the mining companies over there have leases that say that before they extract the ore,

River Forest Public library in River Forest, Illinois) Kansas Hog-butchering demonstration (Central Resource Library, Overland Park, KS)# entioned in a recent Wall street journal article

Fundamental additions to the automated farm, these sensors would enable a real time understanding of current farm, forest or body of water conditions.

You need reinforced masonry steel or composite materials instead of timber and enhanced connections between walls foundations and roofs

Most species are going extinct in tropical forests Pimm said. Saving a species through de-extinction

when humans are burning forests and destroying native communities is a joke he said. Biologist David Ehrenfeld of Rutgers The State university of New jersey agrees de-extinction would impede conservation.

Or instead drone technicians might envision Congo forest eco-guards getting a closer and safer look at what appears be a group of well-armed ivory poachers near a salt lick.

The UAV returns on its own with photographic evidence that the sounds the eco-guard had heard were just a small band of hunter-gatherers who have the right to take from the forest.

and pedaled it down dirt paths through the forests and they even mounted it onto a boat to collect images of a section of the Rio Negro the Amazon's largest tributary Google explained on one of its Outreach pages.

The teams then amalgamated more than 2000 still images to create 360-degree panoramas of the Amazon jungle.

Those data are collected periodically by trained forest community members and once it reaches FAS headquarters in Manaus Brazil can be grouped

After the implementation of the community forest ODK monitoring program and the Street view for the Amazon FAS launched a new Web-based platform called Bolsa Floresta Platform to serve as an interactive tool where Bolsa Floresta

the Amazon forest and the culture of its local population Salviati told Livescience. Smartphones tablets and chimps On the other side of the world the Jane Goodall Institute an ape-conservation organization founded by renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall is leading a similar effort.

and cloud technology to help monitor African forests said Lilian Pintea JGI's vice president of conservation science.

and the forests and take photos documenting the most important threats Pintea explained. The villagers also document the presence of more than 20 species with a focus on chimpanzees for instance

if the forest monitors see an animal or its tracks they take photos with their smartphones he said.

so they can monitor forests and habitats Pintea said. Through this data-collection process the JGI has identified previously unknown threats to chimpanzees.

Even in the first few weeks of a forest villager getting his smartphone he reported this trap designed to capture a live primate we think either a baboon

In the future Pintea hopes to use imagery of the region gathered over the years to track changes in the forests over time.

Eyes on the Forest Other endangered species like the tiger are threatened also by poaching and habitat destruction.

and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry captured images of 12 tigers in Sumatra in an area that was set for deforestation.

along with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Eyes on the Forest worked with Google to build a catalog of maps detailing the changes in the region over time including shifts in the forest cover;

and floral diversity according to a statement from Eyes on the Forest. Through this effort the organizations hope to illustrate how deforestation in Sumatra fueled by demand for products like palm oil

and its forest-dwelling creatures. It will also allow consumers to make informed decisions on the products they buy as the map can show where a pulp

and then gradually the forests will come back and with them tiger populations. Elephant tracks Despite many efforts to curb elephant poaching including a 1989 agreement among CITES (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna

In another, climate policies result in a world full of forest plantations that are created solely to store the greatest possible amount of carbon, with no regard for preserving biodiversity.

destroying 6, 600 Â hectares of wetlands and primary tropical forest. And they predicted that the trend will only get worse.

including mining, agriculture and five different classes of forestry. Scullion says that there is a misconception among locals that researchers are against mining.

Chemical treatment could cut cost of biofuela mild chemical treatment that completely dissolves wood, dried grasses and other indigestible plant matter could greatly improve the efficiency of converting waste biomass to fuel.

and forestry lies unused in more-complex chains of sugars, for example lignin and cellulose. These tough, recalcitrant materials,

Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.

My concept car ecologically friendly and low CO2 footprint will be an external combustion CNG fueled car made almost exclusively of wood

Much of the wood used to make the pulp that's turned into paper is actually byproducts of wood used to make other items--a cobbled-together mush of regular wood woodchips sawdust and other wood detritus.

and causes an increased demand for wood they have to be able to meet that supply

Depletion of forests and associated erosion and environmental damage in developing countries is a concern.

and replant forests.)The good news is trees are a renewable resource and can be replanted.

We deforest for everything from toilet paper to wood for infrastructure and what the article hints to is that and

Combing the jungle and surrounding waters they located debris from more than five dozen aircraft. Last year local spear fishermen diving on Palau's western barrier reef stumbled across one of the most impressive finds:

It was like magic says James Yoo a researcher at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine who is developing a portable printer to graft skin directly onto burn victims.

Then led by Anthony Atala at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine researchers began to seed those cells onto artificial scaffolds.

At Wake Forest Yoo's and Atala's teams built custom bioprinters that are modified faster than inkjets

As a retired Department of Environmental Quality Employee and an owner of timber land this is a stupid article on environmentalism gone crazy in past history.

Why doesn't the author try to calculate how much forest was saved (carbon dioxide sequestered) by trapping the beavers?

Old growth forests are not the source for these products wood is most commonly a farmed product. www. popsci. com/science/article/2013-04/solar-panels-now-make-more-electricity-they-use@adaptation. It was my understanding that solar panels only pay themselves off in a short period of time

and disrupt 100's millions of acres of forest deserts plains lands mountains beachesetc. You can replace hundreds of wind turbines and square miles of solar farms with one bnuclear power plant.

and includes measurements from thousands of currently living forests as well as lots of long-dead trees that have been preserved in bogs and other decay-proof environments.

and lakes penetrating the jungles and impounding rushing rivers in an effort to throw two great oceans together.

The land of the jungle where the mosquito sang her weird song of death unmolested for four hundred years vying with the germs of dysentery typhoid fever and pneumonia in the destruction of human life;

The Canal Zone ten miles wide and forty-five miles long is composed of mountains of moderate height marshy swamps numerous small lakes jungles almost impenetrable in some places

The jungle was cut away some distance from all residences so that the mosquito could find no resting place.

The third pile known as shredder residue includes everything else lastic foam rubber glass leather carpet even wood

Biddle points out the wood the foam the copper wire. Sometimes we get dead animals he says.

But not just any wood. The tower s strength and mass rely on a highly engineered material called cross-laminated timber (CLT.

The enormous panels are up to half a foot thick. They re made by placing layers of parallel beams atop one another perpendicularly then gluing them together to create material with steel-like strength.

This construction has more in common with precast concrete than traditional timber frame design Thistleton says.

When it opened in 2009 Stadthaus was by far the world s tallest modern timber building.

It s become a competition among architects to see who can build the next tallest wood high-rise says Frank Lam a professor of wood building design and construction at the University of British columbia.

or concrete CLT also known as mass timber is cheaper easier to assemble and more fire resistant thanks to the way wood chars.

Wood is renewable like any crop and it s a carbon sink sequestering the carbon dioxide it absorbed during growth even after it s been turned into lumber.

Waugh Thistleton estimates that the wood in Stadthaus stores 186 tons of carbon while the steel and concrete for a similar conventionally built tower would have generated 137 tons of carbon dioxide during production.

but sturdy residential-building system of thin wood beams introduced during the mid 9th century (so light people said that it might just float away).

and San francisco. These disasters led to strict local construction codes that limited the height of residential wood buildings to as low as five floors.

The great forests of skyscrapers that grew across the world s cities in the 20th century were made almost entirely of steel and concrete.

There was a long period where people forgot how to use wood says Alex de Rijke a partner in the London architecture firm of drmm which has worked extensively with mass-timber design.

But over the last two decades architects and engineers have begun to rethink the possibilities of wood as a structural building material.

In the mid-1990s the Austrian government funded a joint industry-academic research program to develop new stronger forms of engineered wood to soak up the country s oversupply of timber.

Normal wood is strong in the direction of the grain but weak in the cross direction.

And because it relies on layers of smaller beams it can reduce waste by using odd-shaped knotty timber that lumber mills would otherwise reject.

and send them to an engineer who would convert the documents into specifications for each wood beam or steel plate.

and sends them to robotic wood or steel routers which shape panels with millimeter precision.

It took just 27 days for four men working three days a week to erect the timber portion of Stadthaus about 30 percent faster than a comparable steel-and-concrete structure.

Whatever client came in timber came on the table says Waugh and after an hour timber all too often came off.

The resistance arose from assumptions about wood as a material: Clients believed that any wood structure would behave like a balloon frame with its structural weaknesses and vulnerability to fire.

We found the journey at times frustrating Thistleton says. One thing we found was the inability of anyone to distinguish between mass timber and a timber frame.

Fire is of course the first concern that comes to mind with wood construction. And yet mass timber is actually safer in a fire than steel.

A thick plank of wood will char on the outside sealing the wood inside from damage. Metal on the other hand begins to melt.

Steel when it burns it s like spaghetti says B. J. Yeh the technical services director for APA he Engineered Wood Association.

When the Australian arm of Lend lease a global project management and construction company began to design Fortã Â a 10-story apartment building in the docklands neighborhood of Melbourne its engineers were not considering mass timber.

We originally looked for a lightweight construction solution that could work on relatively poor soil conditions says Andrew Nieland who oversees timber construction projects for the company.

and came across engineered timber Neiland says. Generally speaking CLT construction is about 15 percent cheaper than conventional steel and concrete according to research by Waugh Thistleton.

But the biggest driving force behind the turn toward wood is a growing awareness among architects and developers about their field s contribution to climate change.

Wood on the other hand ven engineered wood like CLT which requires additional energy to cut and press into sections s far more environmentally friendly.

According to Wood For good an organization that advocates for sustainable wood construction a ton of bricks requires four times the amount of energy to produce as a ton of sawn softwood;

and cool a wood building. When CLT is used to build high-rise towers the carbon savings can be enormous.

Called the Timber Tower Research Project it reimagines Chicago s 42-story Dewitt Chestnut apartment tower

Overall the proposed building is about 80 percent wood with steel and concrete at the joints to provide added stiffness.

The process for producing cross-laminated timber makes clear why architects call it plywood on steroids.

Beams of wood usually spruce are set down side by side in layers with each layer perpendicular to the one beneath it creating a wood board up to a foot thick.

or concrete beams. 4) Interior walls are fireproofed usually by applying a layer of gypsum paneling on top of the mass timber panels. 5) A two-inch layer of concrete typically covers two two-inch layers of insulation

They assigned a graduate student named Rob Wood among others to help develop techniques to fabricate the tiny parts

There are a whole bunch of subtle things that happen Wood says. Michael told us the most important features to generate vortices and other aerodynamic effects.

By the time Wood graduated in 2004 and opened his own lab at Harvard university he had helped pioneer a way to use extremely energy-efficient exotic materials to replicate the motion of a fly s wing;

On a freezing day in 2006 Wood arrived at his Oxford street laboratory at Harvard. On the workbench sat a 60-milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan and a thorax roughly the size of a housefly.

Wood jumped in jubilation. It had taken him seven years to get to this point and it would take another five to reach his next breakthrough:

I didn t end up sleeping the rest of that night Wood says. The next morning we had champagne

Wood has pioneered microscale robotic flight; other researchers have used flapping-wing dynamics to reduce the size of aerial vehicles capable of carrying payloads.

They teamed up with Wood whose lab had joined since Harvard s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

For Wood the big hurdle is power. Unlike the much larger Instanteye Nano Hummingbird and Dragonfly drones Robobees must be connected to an external power source.

Wood is using microfabrication to try to shrink onboard batteries and he s collaborating with researchers at Harvard the University of Washington

The stuff that made Rob Wood s work possible was just the basic mechanisms by

This tells us that 150 million years ago the ancient forests of western North america consisted of members of these three families.

and Pulickel Ajayan the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical engineering and Materials Science and of chemistry at Rice.

The team of scientists--comprising researchers from Harvard SEAS the National park service the USDA Forest Service the U s. Environmental protection agency

In Eastern temperate forests like those in Great smoky mountains national park the most sensitive elements of the ecosystem are the hardwood trees

In the forests of Mount rainier national park it's the lichens that suffer first; their critical load is between 2. 5 and 7. 1 kg/ha/yr

#Seeing the forest and the trees: Panoramic, very-high-resolution, time-lapse photography for plant and ecosystem researchever wonder what plants do

How about an entire forest or grassland? Not even the most dedicated plant researcher can be continuously present to track environmental effects on plant behavior

but they are threatened also in seemingly suitable forests when there is too much human activity. The smallest surviving tiger subspecies Sumatran tigers are extremely elusive

This is the first study to compare the density of Sumatran tigers across various forest types including the previously unstudied peat land.

The WWF field team collected data in partnership with the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry staff.

and gathering of forest products Sunarto said. We found a low population of tigers in these areas even

Ajayan is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering.

and wetlands and terrestrial ecosystems including forests and soils negatively impacting ecological health. Researchers have used now publicly accessible data collected weekly

However cellulose nanomaterials made from wood are green renewable and sustainable. The substrates have a low surface roughness of only about two nanometers.

The nation's forest product industry projects that tens of millions of tons of them could be produced once large-scale production begins potentially in the next five years.

N00014-04-1-0313)( T. K. B. K.)and the U s. Department of agriculture-Forest Service (Grant No. 12-JV-11111122-098.

Funding for CNC substrate processing was provided by USDA-Forest Service (Grant No. 11-JV-11111129-118)( R. J. M. J. P. Y. J. L

.).The authors thank Rick Reiner and Alan Rudie from the U s. Forest Service-Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) for providing CNC materials.

The type of feedstock also contributes to stability with wood being more stable than grasses and manure.

or crops grown on abandoned land that has reverted not to forest. On the other hand biochar production that relies on forest ecosystems may result in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions they cautioned.

Net-negative farmingeven large agricultural systems can be net negative. The GCEP report cited research by Jose Moreira of the University of Sao paulo.

#New company applies regenerative medicine to corneal transplantsocular Systems Inc. OSI) Wake Forest Baptist Medical center

The company formed by OSI the sponsor and initial funder of the project Wake Forest Baptist Medical center

and scaffolds can theoretically be applied to almost any tissue in the body said Anthony Atala M d. director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Ph d. PTRP president and Chief Innovation Officer at Wake Forest Baptist. This project is an example of the innovation that can be sparked in a research-park environment.

Shay Soker Ph d. professor of regenerative medicine at Wake Forest Baptist is the lead scientist for the project.

and Wake Forest Baptist Department of Ophthalmology physicians Craig Greven M d. chair Matthew Giegengack M d. assistant professor and Keith Walter M d. associate professor.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical center and Keith Walter M d. receive royalties from OSI from sales of the Endoserter device

The above story is provided based on materials by Wake Forest Baptist Medical center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length t

what the U s. Department of agriculture Forest Service claims to be the most destructive forest pest ever seen in North america said Michael Domingue postdoctoral fellow in entomology Penn State.

According to the Forest Service the emerald ash borer was introduced to the United states from China in 2002.

and engineers at Penn State the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the Forest Research Institute in Matrafured Hungary and the USDA--created the decoys using a bioreplication process with nanoscale fidelity.

and 3d printed decoys as well as dead female emerald ash borers onto leaves in forests in Hungary to see which of them best attracted wild males.

In the same forests the team also placed traps configured with decoys bearing a 4000-volt charge to electrocute

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