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Hit by a severe drought for the third year in a row, Los Angeles and San Diego on Monday imposed tough restrictions on the use of tap water, local officials said. Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States with four million residents, hiked prices to encourage users to cut their consumption by 15 percent. Watering lawns will now only be allowed on Mondays and Thursdays ... read more 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 02, 2009To further improve the environment in the Swedish capital, Scania is now starting full-scale operational trials with six ethanol-fuelled hybrid buses. The hybrid technology will reduce fuel consumption by 25 percent. The use of ethanol will reduce net carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90 percent. The trials will be run in cooperation with Stockholm Public Transport (SL), and the operator ... more
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Washington (AFP) May 29, 2009Officials in the eastern US state of Maryland have come up with an innovative, cost-saving way to protect the environment: they use goats to mow the grass. The State Highway Administration came up with the novel idea while building an 85-million-dollar road bypass near the town of Hampstead, northwest of Baltimore, after it found that the construction site was home to bog turtles, the ... more 
Salt Lake City (UPI) May 28, 2009 The U.S. government says a Utah law setting permissible selenium levels in the Great Salt Lake is illegal because it violates a treaty on migratory birds. The Utah standard of up to 12.5 parts per million in mallard eggs would kill about 10 percent of the birds before they hatch, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday. The current level in the lake is about 2.7 parts per million. ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) May 29, 2009ESA's next Earth Explorer, SMOS, has recently passed the all-important Flight Acceptance Review, signifying that all the elements that make up the mission are in place for launch later this year. The satellite can now be prepared for its journey to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The Flight Acceptance Review is a formal procedure to ensure that all the mission elements are in ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 29, 2009A unique signal detected by NASA's Aqua satellite is helping researchers check the health and productivity of ocean plants around the world. Fluorescent red light emitted by ocean phytoplankton and detected by Aqua reveals how efficiently the microscopic plants are turning sunlight and nutrients into food through photosynthesis. "This is the first direct measurement of the health of ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2009The U.S. soybean crop is suffering nearly $2 billion in damage a year due to rising surface ozone concentrations harming plants and reducing the crop's yield potential, a NASA-led study has concluded. The study, presented at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly meeting, May 24 in Toronto, is based on five years of soybean yields, surface ozone, and satellite measurements of tropos ... more 
Columbia MO (SPX) May 29, 2009A plant's immune system protects the plant from harmful pathogens. If the system overreacts to pathogens, it can stunt plant growth and reduce seed production. Now, University of Missouri researchers have identified important suppressors that negatively regulate the responses of the immune system in the plant species Arabidopsis thaliana. Understanding the immune system of plants would all ... more 
Irvine CA (SPX) May 29, 2009BlueFire Ethanol Fuels has announced that Solazyme is testing sugars, produced through BlueFire's patented process, for compatibility with its renewable oil process to produce the oil cost effectively and at scale. "Our technologies are a great fit for each other," stated Arnold Klann, CEO of BlueFire Ethanol Fuels. "Our patented acid hydrolysis process allows BlueFire Ethanol to ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2009Private well water should be tested yearly, and in some cases more often, according to new guidance offered by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, took a lead role in working with the AAP to develop these recommendations and draft a new AAP policy statement about the t ... more |
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