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Video: UNH to utilize landfill gases for power and electricity

Desh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:27:32 +0000

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) has chanced upon a novel method to utilize campus trash. While initiating the $49 million project dubbed as ECOline, the energy team aims at meeting 85% of its heat and electricity needs from landfill gas....

Environmental concern: Universities infusing green culture

Aditi Justa — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:28:06 +0000

Preaching the gospel of sustainability to commoners might be a tough ask, but it is definitely less demanding if we start from our universities. Maybe, realizing their duty toward a green future, the universities are going green. Walking the...

Energetic Heavy Ion Sensor for next-generation weather satellites

Irani — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:30:34 +0000

The Space Science Center of the University of New Hampshire will be building an instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) third-generation weather satellites under the Geostationary Operational...

Deltas Disappearing, Endangering Half a Million Lives

Irani — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:56:45 +0000

Eight million people live on six major river deltas across the world. They are awaiting a complete lush with rising sea levels, sinking land and storms. Hurricane Katrina’s ravaging New Orleans is enough of an example, to show just how...

Mayas Civilization Developed Earlier Than Thought: 2000-Year-Old Mural Reveals

Irani — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:33:59 +0000

Mayas civilization developed much earlier than previously accepted! The oldest known Mayan painting inside a ruined pyramid deep inside a Guatemalan jungle, is suggesting this new concept. Archaeologists, who dug up this painting, claim that the...