Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation

NovaUCD-based Lightwave Technologies launches its ICE system which can reduce energy consumption …

NovaUCD-based Lightwave Technologies today announced the commercial launch of a new energy management and control system known as ICE (Intelligent Control of…

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Urine Source Separation: A Smart Solution for Wastewater Management

Nutrients have to be removed by resource-intensive processes at wastewater treatment plants. In the absence of these processes, nutrient discharges pose a risk…

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Tundra Disappearing Faster Than Expected, Study Finds

This shift can happen at a much faster speed than scientists originally thought, according to a new University of Alberta study that adds to the growing body…

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Texas A&M study proves pollution from China And India affecting world's weather

Renyi Zhang, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M and lead author of the paper, says the study is the first of its kind that provides indisputable…

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MIT Engineer’s Quest for Clean Water Innovation in Nepal

An MIT engineer working toward clean drinking water in Nepal describes in a recent issue of the Journal of International Development how people from developed…

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UN and Industry Unite for Global E-Scrap Standards

Major high-tech manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, Ericsson, Philips and Cisco Systems, join UN, governmental, NGO and academic…

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Climate Change Threatens Marine Life in European Seas

There is no denying that climate changes have profound impacts on the world and especially on the marine environment. Recent research has shown that the…

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New Cave Millipede Discovery Enhances Arizona Ecology Insights

J. Judson Wynne, with the Department of Biological Sciences at NAU and cave research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Southwest Biological Center,…

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Corals Combat Heat: Resilience Amid Global Warming Challenges

However, she noted in presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, Feb. 18, Caribbean…

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NASA Links Indonesian Wildfires to Recent El Niño Effects

El Nino is an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific, which often brings significant shifts in global weather patterns.As…

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Cheetahs Collared for the First Time in Iran’s Conservation Effort

An international team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society working in Iran has successfully fitted two Asiatic cheetahs with Global…

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Bald Ibis Returns to Syria: Success of Tracking Project

The re-appearance of one northern bald ibis in Palmyra, Syria, with two others on its tail, has been heralded as a success for the nine-month tracking project…

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Cleaner Heat Solutions: Innovative Mechanical Arm for Boilers

Dutch firm Optimum Technologies and French company Maguin, partners in the project, developed a heat resistant mechanical arm to monitor boilers and…

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Tradable Biodiversity Rights: A Path to Species Conservation

From this perspective it then becomes clear, for example, that the portion of the world population that lives in poverty is incapable of contributing to the…

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Improved Predictions for Warming-Induced Extinctions Needed

In the March 2007 issue of BioScience, an international team of 19 researchers calls for better forecasting of the effects of global warming on extinction…

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Passengers Willing to Pay Climate Surcharge, Study Finds

This has emerged from recent research carried out by VU University Amsterdam’s Institute for Environmental Studies. The study in question focused on more than…

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