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Growth of Emissions Predicted in the U.S. for the Next Decade |
 ...ows that the emissions of gases causing global warming grow, but with a slower pace as the economy does. This trend corresponds completely with the goal set by the president 5 years ago, that is: the carbon dioxide emissions should not grow faster than the economy.
The president's views have found supporters, who also think that the emissions will always grow in a country with a constant economic growth. One of such su... |
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Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming |
| ...hey see, thus destroying partly the crops and leaving forests leafless.
4. Lower density of the atmosphere
It is not a secret that emissions cause the most harm to our planet. The effects caused by carbon dioxide emissions do their dirty work even in the atmosphere's outmost layer. The air in the exosphere is very thin, yet still creating drag to slow down satellites, making engineering boost them up from time to time a... |
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Yawning Saves Your Brain From Overheating |
 ...any studied yawning in college students to find out the reason of yawning. They disproved the theory that yawning results from the lack of oxygen. As experiments showed, the alterations in oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood didn't affect the yawning reaction.
In fact, yawning was found to serve as a brain-cooling mechanism. In the course of the day, our brain heats up as it burns as much as third of all the... |
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Boeing 787 - Less Weight with More Efficiency |
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First in 12 years: Boeing's new creation - 787 Dreamliner - an ultra-light jetliner made of carbon-composites, making it more environmental friendly and more fuel-efficient.
The new plane was unveiled on Sunday in Everett, Washington State, US with about 15,000 employees, company's customers and suppliers present at the ceremony. This was the first time a Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its appearance befo... |
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Computers of the Future to be Made from Pencil Trace |
| ...Institute have conducted special experiments that could lead to a major discovery how to use graphene as a heir to copper and silicon presently used in nanoelectronics. Graphene represents a sheet of carbon that is just one-atom-thick . It was made by scientists in 2004 with the help of common clear adhesive tape bought in a store. Most pencils use graphite that is made up of many graphene-layers. The scientists used the ... |
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Nanotubes Can be Produced from Bacteria |
 ...Scientists discovered that living bacteria can produce semiconducting nanotubes that have a great potential for their application in electronics, nanotechnology and other fields of material science.
Experts at the the University of California-Riverside and South Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology said that this scientific breakthrough might help in developing new nanoelectronic devices.
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Ethical Sourcing Forum (ESF), North America, 2008 |
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The Climate Group, the Carbon Disclosure Project, Nike, Rainforest Alliance, Levi Strauss & Co, Nestlé, Nike, IBM to discuss the development and successful implementation of greener manufacturing methods across supply chain partners
New York City, 23rd January 2008
The Climate Group and the Carbon Disclosure Project have recently joined the executive level cast of speakers - Nike, Phillips... |
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Earth Hour Will be Marked Worldwide |
 ...gned up to mark the day. People from Tel Aviv in Israel, Suva in Fiji, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg in Denmark reported about their wish to participate.
Earth Hour has a goal to reduce carbon emissions for an hour that can be compared to taking 480,000 cars off the road. Anyone who are concerned about climate change may join the campaign and follow some save simple rules to save energy energy and reduce em... |
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Methane Spotted on a Distant Planet |
 ...rs spotted more than 270 exoplanets, planets existing beyond our Solar System. The question is whether any of them have conditions for life.
Methane is one of the four molecules, along with water, carbon dioxide and oxygen that are said to indicate life.
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Woman Turned Her Pet Cat into Black Diamond |
 ...hes by the US company LifeGem that offers to transform dead people and animals into precious gems. The company says. "It is a way to embrace your loved one's memory day by day."
It took 2 grams of carbon remained from 100 grams of pet's ashes. The carbon extracted from the cat was put under diamond press and heated to temperatures of 3,000 degrees Celsius and than again was put under one million pounds of pressure for ... |
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Bombs to Become Safer for the Environment |
 ...itivity to impact, friction and heat can be very high.
German scientists developed explosive from the tetrazoles, a new class of materials, which makes nitrogen a main source of energy instead of carbon used in conventional explosives. They produced small bombs from two tetrazole compounds called HBT and G2ZT.
The results of the experiments showed that the bombs proved to be as powerful and in some cases even more... |
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Ethical Sourcing Forum Europe in Paris on October 2nd, 2008 |
 ... FSC, MeadWestvaco, SNCF, CIES, CBSR, Open SRI and many more will take delegates "behind the scenes" to demonstrate effective "Models and Tools of Practice" presently used for Sustainable Purchasing, Carbon Foot Print, Remediation, Supply Chain Rating/Reporting, Capacity Development and other practices. Discover practical solutions to systemic challenges and exchange ideas to bring your demands into focus.
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Forests to Be Destructed for Food |
 ...ably, we are on the verge of a last great global land grab," said Andy White, co-author of the report called Seeing People through the Trees.
"It will mean more deforestation, more conflict, more carbon emissions, more climate change and less prosperity for everyone."
The cities analysis showed that the food demand will continue to grow and additional land needed to meet this demand may reach three billion hectar... |
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Bones of 6000 Year-Old Ancient Wild Camels Found in Desert |
 ...tern region of Abu Dhabi, by a group of archaeologists from the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH).
According to Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, Director-General of ADACH, the radiocarbon dating of the skeletons found on the site shows that these camels lived about 6,000 years ago. The announcement about the finding was made at the Seminar for Arabian Studies in late July 2008. The seminar represents an... |
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