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Eco Factor: Nitrogen fertilization increases leaf albedo.
We all know that trees suck up carbon dioxide and release the all important oxygen for us to breathe. This natural phenomenon has until now saved our planet from getting too hot for life to.
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A new model for carbon cuts has been proposed by the researchers at the Princeton Environmental Institute. The model targets the rich and the developed nations of the...
made popular Jul 10 2009
Eco Factor: Industry giants pledge to reduce the use of plastic bags in order to reduce toxic plastic waste.
Plastic bags are jeopardizing both humans and wildlife in...
made popular Jul 7 2009
The U.S House of Representative just passed a bill that will address global warming by reducing the emission of gasses that cause climate change. It was a watered-down...
made popular Jul 1 2009
For all the right-wing hysteria about President Obama being a socialist, the president is actually quite a centrist and even a corporatist. Depending on one’s...
made popular Jun 29 2009
In a beloved film from my childhood, “Flight of Dragons,” the scientist hero confronts the evil red magician on a dark crag. As menacing snakes sprout out...
made popular Jun 27 2009
After much negotiations, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives finally managed to pass President Obama’s “Cap-and-Trade” bill as part of...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Eco Factor: Synthetic trees to capture CO2 from the air and convert it into liquid CO2.
Research scientists at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at...
made popular Jun 24 2009
The Symposium on the Climate Change in London witnessed the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu raising concerns over global warming. He went on to suggest painting roofs...
made popular Jun 23 2009
For the green hoodies New York’s the place to be, because erected outside the Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, by the Deutsche Bank is a 70-feet-tall digital...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Eco Factor: Real-time CO2 counter encourages people to curtail emissions.
Deutsche Bank, a name not directly related to environmental conservation, has lit a...
made popular Jun 19 2009
By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa’s farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent’s precarious food...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Definition – Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its...
made popular Jun 10 2009
Nuclear warfare is a constant threat to life on earth but climate change is no less serious, says a summit of the world’s Nobel Laureates who, along with Prince...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Jordanian Ministry of Environment will be marking World Environment Day, which is usually celebrated on the 5th of June, through a new campaign titled, “Your...
made popular Jun 5 2009
World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Commemorated...
made popular Jun 5 2009
People talk about the future, yet climate change is claiming lives now, notably in Africa. The nations, governors and those governed must stand up and be counted.
The...
made popular Jun 5 2009
Eco Factor: Solar-generating roofs coated with reflective tiles to reduce solar gain.
Recently news surfaced that painting the world white would help curb global...
made popular Jun 4 2009
On Tuesday, French climber Alain Robert, popularly known as “Spiderman,” climbed a 41-story Sydney tower with his bare hands, just to make the world aware about...
made popular Jun 2 2009
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While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists...
made popular May 15 2008
Analyzing the actual health condition will be more easier for the doctors now as they have come out with a new test that will enable them to analyze the carbon and...
made popular Oct 17 2006
Waters low in Oxygen have created a death trap for aquatic life off the coast of Oregon. This has been occurring since the summer of 2002. Deep sea fish and crabs that...
made popular Aug 8 2006
Nitrogen is the main factor in creating the large and growing low-oxygen ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico. A Louisiana State University scientist, Eugene...
made popular Aug 8 2006
In case you do not know, NASCAR racers use nitrogen-filled tires too. Recently the raging fuel prices have led many to take on new ways to beat the heat. Engineer...
made popular Aug 3 2006
It is disappointing to find that more than half of U.S. streams are polluted. And the worst conditions are found in the eastern third of the country, a study by the...
made popular May 6 2006
It is happening indiscriminately across the planet. Abundance and variety is falling continuously. A major new report says that virtually all indicators of the likely...
made popular Mar 21 2006
Carbon emission alone cannot be blamed for the accelerating global warming. The other serious culprit is nitrogen. And we cannot afford to ignore it, as it is —...
made popular Jan 19 2006
Facing problem with maintaining your tyres and keeping their proper pressure easily? It’s Nitrogen that provides a great solution to your worries. Yes, you read...
made popular Oct 28 2005
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