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World Clock Displays Facts About Living on Earth in Real Time
Posted: December 31, 2009 in Environment, extinct, Military Expenditure, pollution, population control, Technology, transportation0
Scientists Begin Testing Mussels for Pollutants in the San Francisco Bay
Posted: December 31, 2009 in Environment, pollutionSAN FRANCISCO — California scientists hope studying 180 black mussels pried from algae-covered rocks in San Francisco Bay will provide clues into how many drugs and chemicals are polluting waters across the nation. Dominic Gregorio, a senior environmental scientist with the State Water Resources Control Board will probably put together a report in few years! [...]
AP IMPACT: GPS could save airlines time and fuel
Posted: October 9, 2008 in Energy Efficient, pollutionCHICAGO – A World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages for more than a decade. The $35 billion plan would replace the current radar [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The potential link between mobile telephones and brain cancer could be similar to the link between lung cancer and smoking — something tobacco companies took 50 years to recognize, according to US scientists’ warning.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – China has already surpassed the United States as the world’s largest carbon polluter, the authors of a California study said Tuesday. “Our best forecast has China’s CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions correctly surpassing the United States in 2006 rather than 2020 as previously anticipated,” said the study by researchers at the University [...]
WASHINGTON – A chemical used to make baby bottles and other shatterproof plastic containers could be linked to a range of hormonal problems, a preliminary government report has found. The report was greeted by some environmental groups as confirmation of their concerns, while chemical makers latched on to the report’s preliminary nature and its authors’ [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Misleading research is often published in major medical journals and doctors are lending their names to it, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association said on Tuesday. Doctors, regulators, publishers and others are all taking money, information and small presents from pharmaceutical companies and being influenced in the process, [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – A project in India to turn waste food into cooking gas was among the winners of environmental awards announced on Thursday.
