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1362 matches found for "Pollution"

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Siemens develops a video solution to uncover leaks in an industrial environment

In industrial environments, especially in power stations and the oil and gas area, leaks in pipe systems, valves and at critical transfer points have to be identified as quickly as possible. This is e...

Information Technology |

Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports

Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems. The study, one of only a handful to examine airborne pollutants near regional airports, suggests that o...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Human emissions rise 2 percent despite global financial crisis

The paper – by scientists from the internationally respected climate research group, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) – says rising emissions from fossil fuels last year were caused mainly by increased...

Earth Sciences |

Glimpsing a greener future

It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor.Look into Shane Stephens-Romero's crystal ba...

Power and Electrical Engineering |

Warmer Means Windier on World’s Biggest Lake

Since 1985, surface water temperatures measured by lake buoys have climbed 1.2 degrees per decade, about 15 percent faster than the air above the lake and twice as fast as warming over nearby land....

Earth Sciences |

Tiny Bubbles Clean Oil from Water

Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil...

Life Sciences |

Consumption of certain fish during pregnancy associated with poorer cognitive performance

This conclusion emerges from research conducted at the University of Granada, which warns of the need to assess children's health risk according to fish consumption, distinguishing between variet...

Health and Medicine |

Amphibians as environmental omen disputed

After a review of over 28,000 toxicological tests, researchers from the University of South Dakota, Yale University and Washington State University are challenging the prevailing view that amphibians,...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aerosol data

Using data from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer-2 on the ERS-2 satellite, the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer and the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on Envisat and the Spinning En...

Earth Sciences |

Scientists call for "global cooling" to save coral reefs

In the lead up to United Nations Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Professors Charlie Veron (former Chief Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science) and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the ARC Centre...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life

"This is a way that nitrogen is lost from an ecosystem that people have never accounted for before," said Jed Sparks, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and co-author of...

Studies and Analyses |

Future forest monitoring in the European Union

The Conference "Future forest monitoring in the European Union. Providing information for multifunctional forest management", which will take place 11-12 November under the Swedish EU Presid...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Scientists Propose a "Genome Zoo" of 10,000 Vertebrate Species

Known as the Genome 10K Project, it involves gathering specimens of thousands of animals from zoos, museums, and university collections throughout the world, and then sequencing the genome of each spe...

Life Sciences |

Airborne nitrogen shifts aquatic nutrient limitation in pristine lakes

Examining nitrogen deposition in alpine and subalpine lakes in Colorado, Sweden and Norway, James Elser, a limnologist in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and his colleagues fo...

Studies and Analyses |