News tagged with green areas
Networks of small habitat patches can preserve urban biodiversity
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and contiguous habitats. This finding ...
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Community gardens don't impact crime rate
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Urban residents across the United States have dug in to create green spaces in their neighborhoods, transforming vacant lots into colorful and crowd-pleasing community gardens. According to the American Community ...
Coordination needed to support green-fingered youths
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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The project, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), found that many young volunteers travelled long distances from cities to short-term projects in rural areas and felt they were being punished ...
What are 'green cities'?
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Dear EarthTalk: What is the "green cities" movement? - John Moulton, Greenwich, Conn.
NYPD Goes Green
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New York City has a goal to reduce its overall carbon footprint. For Manhattan, the goal is to reduce greenhouse gases 30% by 2017. As part of this effort, the New York City Police Department ...
New methods identify and manipulate 'newborn' cells in animal model of Parkinson's disease
Sep 03, 2008 |
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When cells in the brain are lost through disease or injury, neighboring cells begin to divide and multiply, but only a few areas in the brain are able to produce new neurons. Patients with Parkinson's disease suffer degeneration ...
Thinking of turning your chemistry green? Consult GEMs
Mar 24, 2009 |
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A database designed to "build community" and reduce barriers when adopting green chemistry has doubled in size in the last two years, its creator told professional colleagues at the national spring meeting of the American ...
Bound by attention: Bringing rats and humans together
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2008 |
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When picking through a basket of fruit, it doesn't seem very difficult to recognize a green pear from a green apple. This is easy, thanks to "feature binding"— a process by which our brain combines all of the specific features ...
'Green' gasoline on the horizon?
Jan 13, 2009 |
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University of Oklahoma researchers believe newer, more environmentally friendly fuels produced from biomass could create alternative energy solutions and alleviate dependence on foreign oil without requiring changes to current ...
China could be $1 trillion green tech market
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- China potentially could be a $500 billion to $1 trillion a year market for environmentally sustainable "green technologies," a group of businesses and experts said in a report Thursday that urges governments to ease ...
Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...
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