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| Retrofitting Old Buildings to Turn Big Apple Green NEW YORK -- The federal stimulus package and the city's ambitious "green building" initiative should provide a jobs bonanza for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) specialists, city officials said yesterday. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Veterinarians caught in a cross-fire of Chinook Nothing says Seattle like sipping a grande latte from the original Starbucks while watching dead halibut and salmon fly past your face. [More] rss.sciam.com |
New Chemicals Could Better Capture CO2 from Coal Plants As Congress debates ways to encourage coal-fired power plants to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store it underground, scientists are racing to find cleaner and more efficient ways of collecting the greenhouse gas.Currently, the few coal plants that are capturing CO2 on a commercial scale use technology that employs monoethanolamine, a general-purpose solvent that has been around for 75 years that is nonselective, corrosive, requires large equipment and is not effective under all conditions. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Is That Species Endangered? The Obama administration is moving to accelerate Endangered Species Act listing decisions for hundreds of plants and animals, some of which have languished on a waiting list for more than 25 years.At issue are 250 or so "candidate species," a designation that offers no legal protections for affected species and is intended to be temporary. But nearly 100 species have been on the ESA waiting list for more than 10 years, and 73 have been waiting more than 25 years, according to the Center for Biological Diversity , an advocacy group. [More] rss.sciam.com |
New recipe looks back for how to feed the world When it comes to feeding Earth's masses of people who regularly go hungry, a few things are clear: communism's large-scale, collective farms don't work and breeding for specific traits in staple crops can boost yields, sometimes significantly. After all, two of the most significant agricultural successes of the past 50 years--a period marked by explosive population growth--were the redistribution of land in China to 160 million peasant families and the " Green Revolution " touched off by Norman Borlaug 's pioneering work with wheat. [More] rss.sciam.com |