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Mapping Boreal Forests With Radar From Space

How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden

20 Oct 2008

Study Finds the Arctic Ocean Had Less Ice 6000-7000 Years Ago

Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free

20 Oct 2008

Green Earth Technologies Helps Car Owners Keep Their Cars Clean Without Harming the Environment

Green Earth Technologies, a consumer goods manufacturer producing 'G'-Branded superior performing totally green products, wants to help consumers wash their cars without polluting the earth

20 Oct 2008

Concentration of Pesticides in Groundwater Decreasing

The use of pesticides in the United States has been widespread for decades, and a new study shows the effects they have had as a contaminant in the nation’s groundwater. The researchers took samples from over 300 wells and examined different contaminants that have been used over the years, with encouraging results as to the levels of concentration that the samples have measured

20 Oct 2008

Thousands of Willow Trees Reducing Fuel Pollution in the Ground as they Grow

Thousands of trees and shrubs are pulling contaminants out of the ground, eliminating the need for an $8 million treatment facility at the Fort Drum military installation

20 Oct 2008

Korean Researchers Develop Hydrogen Production Method 30 Times Cheaper Than Previously Used

Director of S&P Energy Research Institute (SPERI), Doctor of Science Sen Kim said on the 20th October that the company’s slogan, "Clean Energy for Clean Era" is early reachable

20 Oct 2008

Turning a 1930s Home into an Energy Efficient House of the Future

A three year research project is about to start at The University of Nottingham that will help people living in 1930s Semi's to meet the Government’s ambitions to reduce CO2 emissions from homes

20 Oct 2008

WWF Releases Greenprint for Presidential Candidates

WWF-US has released a "Greenprint" agenda, a policy roadmap for the next US president to address global threats to environmental, social and political stability in four key areas

16 Oct 2008

Fuel Oil Savings Calculator Released

Web based fuel oil savings calculator released that uses research data from Brookhaven Laboratory

16 Oct 2008

Water Saving Concrete May be Suited to Building on the Moon

Houssam Toutanji, a professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, wants to demonstrate a concept of creating concrete structures on the lunar surface without water. Astronauts can turn to a new type of waterless concrete that uses lunar soil as the aggregate and sulfur as a binding agent

16 Oct 2008