Researchers analyzing the water content of two Martian meteorites have found that the amount of water in parts of Mars’ mantle must be vastly higher than previously estimated, nearly the same as the Earth’s. Until this discovery, the Earth was the only planet known to have very large reservoirs of water in its interior. […]
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One of two newly discovered planets is a rocky planet that is 1.5 times the size of Earth. The second is a gas planet almost four times Earth’s size. Together they are part of a “bizarre” star system in which the planets orbit closer to each other than any other planets yet discovered. “We’ve
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The International Rhino Foundation (IRF) is awaiting the historical birth of a critically endangered Sumatran rhino at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia’s Way Kambas National Park. Expectant mother Ratu is being monitored 24/7 by her primary veterinarian, as well as a team of rhino experts from several continents. Ratu’s baby is expected to be
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is nearing the edge of our solar system, where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system is markedly increased. The voyager scientists who are studying this rapid rise think that Voyager 1 is very close to exiting out of solar system, which will make it the first man-made
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found indications that water ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the material on the surface of a crater located at the moon’s south pole. The research team used laser light from LRO’s laser altimeter to examine the floor of Shackleton crater. They found
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Astronomers working on NASA’s Kepler Mission have discovered two planets of very different composition and densities, locked in extremely close orbits to each other around their parent star. One of the planets is a rocky ‘super-Earth’ about 1.5 times the size of our planet and 4.5 times the mass. The other is a ‘Neptune-like’
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Saving the environment begins at home and what better part of your house to concentrate on than the one that uses up to hundreds of liters of water each day? Between the toilet, wash basin, bathtub and shower, more water is wasted through bathroom activities each day than in any other area of your
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And of course, before there was “OAL,” there was “Clean Coal”. It’s unfortunate that Big Coal has Big Cash to peddle Big BS to further delay little wind, solar, tidal, and geothermal. More on Big Coal BS: From Coal Tattoo: Coal PR firm set up state’s anti-Obama meetings From Source Watch: Environmental impacts of
The first definitive evidence that cattle were used for their milk, by humans, in prehistoric Saharan Africa nearly 7,000 years ago is the focus of a study just published in the journal Nature. The research was done by an international group of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom
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The Emperor penguin, Antarctica’s iconic, nearly 4-foot-tall sea bird, is likely to see its populations collapse as warming and ice loss in Antarctica accelerates. According to a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), the Emperor penguins living in Terre Adélie, in East Antarctica, will eventually disappear if the presently occurring warming
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The Federal Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar) have reported that the average German solar system price in the second quarter of 2012 is estimated at €1.776 per watt peak, or $2.24 per watt peak at current exchange rates. Considering that the German solar market is dominated by rooftop installations (72 percent of installations in 2011 were
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With the right sensors, actuators and software, robots can now be given a tactile sense that imitates that of the sense of touch in humans. A specially designed robot is able to outperform humans in the identification of a wide range of materials based on their textures, according to new research from the University
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The rapid decline of the world’s animal, plant, and fungi species is threatening the livelihood of many millions of people. Food, clean water, medicine, and climate, are heavily dependent on the myriad numbers of species in the world, many of which are rapidly approaching extinction from primarily human activities. The IUCN Red List of
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Despite monumental technology advancements, the returns of commercial fishing continue to diminish. Sonar location, powerful boats, and thousands of miles of nets are producing today what a simple boat and net setup produced in 1850. It’s no mystery, there are fewer fish out there these days. Depending on the ocean, commercial overfishing has been
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You’re going to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this year. You’re psyched. You’ve dropped over $100 on a three-day ticket, but you know Pitchfork always puts on a good show so it’s well worth the price for you. Unfortunately, you live in Peoria and drive a 2003 Ford Explorer. A quick search on Illinois Tollway’s toll
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From recent news reporting a global investment in renewable energy of more than $257 billion, to headlines highlighting green changes implemented by companies across the globe, this past year was a notable era of progress in enhancing the environment’s sustainability. However, as most of us know, there is still much that can be done to further improve environmental health. Focusing on individual action is an effective
The Energy Secretary of the United States, Steven Chu, announced on June 18th that a newly built supercomputer called Sequoia is now the fastest computer in the world. Built for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California; Sequoia has now been ranked in ‘The Top500 list’, which is an annual ranking of
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Newly analyzed data from the ‘BaBar experiment’ suggests that there might be flaws in the Standard Model of particle physics, which is the accepted theory of how the universe works on subatomic scales. The BaBar experiment is a high-energy physics experiment based at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The
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It is hardly a surprise that recent developments in methods of power have set standards in ways to generate power. Home owners continue to invest monies to utilize several different forms of power generation, one of which is solar energy. The sun has been with us for millions of years, but coming up with
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The world population is now approaching 8 billion, all of whom need to eat. However, how much someone eats varies of course, depending to a large degree on mass. New research just published in the journal BMC Public Health “has estimated the total mass of the human population, defined its distribution by region, and
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The Arctic is becoming greener as plant growth increases due to warmer temperatures. More plant growth means more carbon stored as biomass, so it had been thought that this would lead to the Arctic removing enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow warming slightly. But new research shows that the stimulation of decomposition rates
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Green thinking is thankfully becoming main stream and is not isolated to a few dedicated eco-warriors. People are finally becoming socially conscious and aware of the fact that we are causing terrible harm to our eco-system in vain. The fashion industry has for years been a culprit for not having an eco-conscience, especially the
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Below is a good video from the folks at LUSH that I recently received on email about the wonders the Enbridge pipeline (think: ‘Keystone XL but only in Canada’) will bring to Canada. Included in the email was this text: “We’re sure you are aware of the Keystone XL debate in the US, but
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A new University-led study that received NASA participation has discovered that Antarctica was warmer and wetter during the Miocene era than had previously been suspected, to the point where the climate was able to sustain substantial vegetation along the edges of the mostly frozen continent. The team of scientists — led by Sarah J.
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Ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than was previously thought, according to a new study just released in the journal Nature Geoscience. The climate supported lush vegetation, including stunted trees, along Antarctica’s coastline. The research was done by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and included researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Stem cells derived from humans can spontaneously form the tissue that develops in the part of the eye that allows us to see, according to a new study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell. Transplanting this tissue into patients could help patients with visual impairments see. “This is an important milestone for a
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The Air Force’s robotic space plane that has been in orbit for more than a year returned to the Earth June 16th. The Air Force landed its ‘secret’ X-37B space plane on Saturday, after having spent 15 months in space. It landed at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. The landing date was somewhat flexible.
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Bones that are theorized to be the bones of John the Baptist have recently been dated to the 1st century AD, confirmed as a male, and also found to be from an mtDNA haplogroup that is most common in the Middle East region he would have been from. The bones were found in 2010
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A just-discovered asteroid the size of a city block buzzed past Earth Thursday night (June 14th). The new asteroid is named 2012 LZ1. The newly discovered asteroid is 1650-feet wide and passed just within 3.3 million miles — that’s about 14 times the distance of the Earth and Moon. The closest approach was around
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An active sunspot-filled region on the sun, AR 1504, rotated into our view on June 10, 2012. So far, the sunspot region fired off two M-class flares, and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on June 13th and 14th. The final flare lasted a long time for a CME, nearly 3 hours. It peaked around
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Robots can develop the basics of language skills through interacting with a human, according to new research from the University of Hertfordshire. The research has just been published in the journal PLoS ONE. The researchers, Dr Caroline Lyon, Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Dr Joe Saunders have recently done new experiments as part of the
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is nearing the edge of our solar system, where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system is markedly increased. The voyager scientists who are studying this rapid rise think that Voyager 1 is very close to exiting out of solar system, which will make it the first
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The existence of mirror particles may explain the anomalous loss of neutrons witnessed during recent experiments, according to a new study just published in the European Physical Journal (EPJ) C. The existence of matter that mirrors our own has been theorized to exist, in a variety of different scientific contexts, for some time now,
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The El Castillo cave paintings in Northern Spain have now been dated to at least 40,800 years ago. This makes them the oldest known European cave art. The new dating has pushed back the date of the oldest known cave art in Europe by 10,000 years, deep into the last ice age. The research
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It’s time to do away with coal-fired power plants and Nuclear Energy and switch to renewable energy sources. Coal not only destroys the air we breath, but the mining of it destroys our land and water supply. Nuclear is way too dangerous as we all found out from the disaster that happened in Japan last year
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I don’t understand why a state would outlaw climate change. North Carolina is on the sea and if the water levels rise it would kill their tourism industry. Which in return would almost bankrupt the state. A lot of people go to the beaches in the state for vacations and spend tons of money there.
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South Africa’s rhino horn syndicate case involving game farmer Marnus Steyl, professional hunter Harry Claassens, and Thai nationals Chumlung Lemtongthai, Punpitak Chunchom, and Tool Sriton has been postponed. Although the alleged syndicate’s legal team had hoped to get the case thrown out, the suspects will make another court appearance on November 5th. Steyl and his
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So, I just went and randomly picked the winner of the $200 Whole Foods gift certificate (& more) giveaway courtesy Mitsubishi i. The winner is… Dee! Thanks to everyone for participating, and better luck next time for everyone who didn’t win.
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New research suggests that Earth-like planets can form in a much wider variety of star systems than previously thought. It had been thought rocky planets could only form around stars with a large amount of heavier elements, therefore excluding newer star-producing regions in the universe. The new research means that Earth-like planets could have
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Summer is almost here, and already you can hear children playing outside and birds singing. While there is a great deal to do outdoors during the summer months, you don’t have to keep yourself chained to those activities the entire time. You and your family might feel like spending a couple of hours inside
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A ‘tropical’ lake has been found near the equator on Saturn’s moon Titan. The observation was made by the Cassini spacecraft, which spotted the apparently hydrocarbon-composed lake among dunes in the equatorial region. The finding suggests that oases of liquid methane might lie beneath Titan’s surface. This liquid methane could possibly serve the same function
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Big Oil continues its assault on the Arctic by pushing for increasing oil drilling. This time it’s the Western Arctic that’s particularly at risk. Next week, House Republicans are expected to unveil a legislative package that once again calls for drilling everywhere, regardless of the risks and impacts to the climate, and to our
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Climate change has long been expected to disrupt future fire patterns across the globe, and a new analysis of 16 climate models has only confirmed what many scientists had long feared. The study, led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and in collaboration with an international team of scientists, found that by
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A new study has found that massive volcanic eruptions that took place over the past 70,000 years in Nicaragua could have injected enough gases into the atmosphere to temporarily thin the ozone layer. The study also concluded that if such an event took pace today, the amount of gases released could equal twice the
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Until recently, the cause of the woolly mammoth extinction 4,000-10,000 years ago has been unclear. But according to new research, the species fell to a lethal combination of climate warming, encroaching humans, and habitat loss. These are many of the same threats facing most species today. “We were interested to know what happened to
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The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. While green tea has so many healthy benefits, consumers need to be wary if their tea comes from certain parts of Japan. […]
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In 2006, there were 13,000 forest elephants around the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. But, as of last year, only 6,300 remain, living in an area the size of Rhode Island. […]
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Take just a few moments to sign the NRDC petition asking President Obama to push for critical ocean protections during the Rio+20 summit. And the next time you get ready to toss a plastic bottle in the trash, or drive your car when it would be just as easy to walk or bike,…
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