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Jatropha, a wild shrub growing on uncultivated lands has for long being endemic to India and parts of Africa. Its significance as a bio-fuel also has been touted for long. Now in a first, oil derived from Jatropha has been used to fly an Air New Zealand Boeing 747. This is good news for an [...]
It is a doomsday scenario in itself. Even the aftermath of a small nuclear war would release 700 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. A new paper in the journal Energy & Environmental Science says that even a small restrained nuclear exchange using just one-thousandth of the weaponry of an all-out nuclear war, would [...]
Bad news again on the global warming front, but these days is there anything but bad news with global warming?
While it may be cold right now in North America, new estimates show that warmer ice-free summers may be coming sooner rather than later in the Arctic. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center [...]
This semester I have embarked on a five month stay in Cork, Ireland and from my first day here I have noticed the little things that the UK, and consequently national all across the EU, are doing to preserve the environment in a big way.
My first trip to Tesco involved making sure I had [...]
There seems to be belief by many people that once you dump something into the environment, it will disappear and the environment will be clean again. For those of you who have seen Trailer Park Boys, you know about Ricky’s belief in how the environment recycles. His wisdom, which many people seem to agree with [...]
It’s promising. A super efficient all-in-one system which will provide electricity, heat and refrigerated cooling to your home is in the works. A research team at Newcastle University is working on a generator which will run on vegetable oil.
The vegetable oil will be the de facto source for the generation of electricity. The ensuing [...]
Jellyfish are an odd creature inhabiting the oceans of our planet. Most of us only know them as the creatures who burn our feet when we step on them on the sand, or hit them in the ocean.
Well, the once humble jellyfish is experiencing a massive population boom and the ocean is littered with massive [...]
In the up-and-coming era of recycling a company called TerraCycle is making a big mark with their innovative and popular products, many of which you’re probably already familiar with. TerraCycle products include their own brand of eco-cleaners, a number of school and office supplies, and firelogs and starters- all of which are made directly from everyday [...]
Merry Christmas everyone!
We live in very strange times indeed. For the past couple years, bumblebees all over the world have been dying off. According to many scientists, this represents a significant warning sign that things may be amiss in our wonderful planet, and that if we do not heed the warnings, we could follow the [...]
For years, the typical image of a man pushed through the media was a rugged being, with a chiseled body, chest hair, maybe a beard and a deep voice. Well, if nature, or rather our influence on nature, has anything to say about it, that image will slowly be replaced by a much more feminine [...]
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