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New bamboo charcoal tech to jumpstart African bioenergy sector, slow deforestation and climate change

Bamboo, a plant not often associated with Africa, may be the key to combating soil degradation and massive deforestation on the continent as an alternative source of energy.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Kenya project: making safer water to sell carbon credits

To protect the environment and improve the health of four million people while making a profit is the goal of a Swiss-based company distributing water filters and aiming to sell carbon credits.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Forestry officials on urgent mission: Beetles

(AP) -- Forestry officials in the Northeast are on an urgent mission, tracking thousands of Massachusetts residents as they search for tree-eating stowaway insects they may have carried to campgrounds or ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Screening Africa's renewable energies potential

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published today a study mapping the potential of renewable energy sources in Africa. The report analyses the current energy consumption in Africa and ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Nepal's child malnutrition 'silent emergency'

Padma Biswokarma covers her young son with a blanket as she breastfeeds, a broad smile spreading across her face.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Climate change blamed for dead trees in Africa

Trees are dying in the Sahel, a region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and human-caused climate change is to blame, according to a new study led by a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 25

Wind farm fuels Ethiopia's green power ambitions

Villagers in Ethiopia's arid north live as they have for centuries surrounded by cattle and donkeys; only the rows of towering white wind turbines look out of place.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8

'Third World' power outages plague US homes, firms

The United States is the biggest economy in the world, but all it takes to put the lights out here is some snow, or wind, or rain, or squirrels, even a prison break-out.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 57

Forest fires are becoming larger and more frequent

The study, recently published in the journal Climatic Change, is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between two researchers: one is UC3M Professor Santiago Fernández Muñoz, who has wo ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Observations of climate change from indigenous Alaskans

Personal interviews with Alaska Natives in the Yukon River Basin provide unique insights on climate change and its impacts, helping develop adaptation strategies for these local communities.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Firewood movement leading cause of oak infestation in San Diego County

A catastrophic infestation of the goldspotted oak borer, which has killed more than 80,000 oak trees in San Diego County in the last decade, might be contained by controlling the movement of oak firewood from that region, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poverty and national parks: Decade-long study finds surprising relationship

If so many poor people live around national parks in developing countries, does that mean that these parks are contributing to their poverty?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Spread of fungus-farming beetles is bad news for trees

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University researchers have found that a subset of fungus-farming ambrosia beetles may be in the early stages of a global epidemic threatening a number of economically ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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