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Decontamination Wipes Earn Patent

Texas Tech' process to create nonwoven toxic chemical decontamination wipes recently receives a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

4 May 2009

United States Army Destroys 60 Percent of Their Chemical Weapons Stockpile

Today, U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) officials announced the destruction of 60 percent of the U.S. declared stockpile under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

28 Apr 2009

Lost World of Dinosaurs That Survived Extinction May Be A Reality

New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the extinction, and that dinosaurs may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years

28 Apr 2009

NREL Installs Inkjet Workstations for Photovoltaics Research

iTi Solar announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has installed inkjet and spray workstations supplied by iTi Solar in NREL's advanced Atmospheric Processing Platform, which is located in the Process Development and Integration Laboratory at the National Center for Photovoltaics

22 Apr 2009

Apollo 14 Moon Trees Program to Continue With Earth Day Planting

NASA, the National Arboretum and American Forests will celebrate Earth Day and the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing with a tree planting ceremony April 22 at the National Arboretum

20 Apr 2009

MBA in Sustainable Management, Also Known as the Online Green MBA

The online green MBA is for a growing number of professionals who are looking beyond the traditional MBA and enrolling in an education that will provide the tools to put them ahead in the growing sector of Green Business

20 Apr 2009

Sustainable Farms Being Examined by Urban Food Chain Class

Chicago and other cities have adopted green initiatives designed to foster more investment in local and regional agriculture. City officials and citizens alike often assume that by doing so they can help soften climate change by cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. But it’s not that simple.

19 Apr 2009

Food, Biofuels and Materials Can All Be Produced in Sufficient Quantities

Science will enable farmers to produce enough grain to meet the growing demand for food, biofuels and materials if pubic and private agriculture enterprises, regulators and policymakers from around the globe take a more holistic approach to the solution

19 Apr 2009