Articles Posted in the Earth – Climate Category
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Starting today we can explore the Amazon from the computer
Starting this week, anyone can explore the world’s longest river, the Amazon, from the computer thanks to Google Maps. Google specialists have integrated Google Street View images captured in the Amazon basin with cameras conducted…
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A New Wild Ginger Discovered from the Evergreen Forest of Western Ghats of South India
Intensive botanical explorations for taxonomic studies on the members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in India by V.P. Thomas and M. Sabu of the University of Calicut, have resulted in the discovery of an interesting…
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System that cleanly and efficiently removes trace heavy metals from water
Engineers at Brown University have developed a system that cleanly and efficiently removes trace heavy metals from water. In experiments, the researchers showed the system reduced cadmium, copper, and nickel concentrations, returning contaminated water to…
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There are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics
Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Large areas of…
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Extreme method against global warming: painting mountains in white!
In the Andes Mountains, a team of ecologists fight climate change with a innovative method to preserve glaciers and water, on which depends a community of shepherds in Peru. Community includes 900 people and lives from…
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Planes bring rain near airports
A study based on observation flights over the past 50 years reveals that the aircraft “seeding” clouds with ice crystals that generate additional precipitation in the area of airports. Anthropogenic influence on the environment has…
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Earth changes its shape because glaciers are melting
Melting of glaciers resulted in changing the shape of Earth, making it more bulged on the Equator. Researchers understand most things that affect the planet as such as tides and weather, but measurements made by…
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Precise structure of proteins, which allow certain bacteria to move electrical charges outside the cell membrane
Batteries of tomorrow might have a heart “alive”. A team of University of East Anglia (UEA) 1 in the UK, in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S., presented the first precise structure of proteins,…
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Reverse osmosis membranes with carbon nanotubes to obtain pure water
Getting drinking water from sea water. It will be one of the most important challenges of the coming decades, taking into account the water demand of the global population, still growing. And nanotechnology may give…
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Concrete Tents revolutionize building industry
When the city buildings are collapsed, under seismic shock waves, as happened recently in Japan and New Zealand, destroyed buildings, are usually replaced in the short term, by … tents. Two engineering students, Will Crawford…