TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Urban Nature Boy A quietly marvelous picture book inspired by Manhattan’s High Line. nytimes.com |
Newly Uncovered Enzymes Turn Corn Plant Waste into Biofuel "Visualize three tons of moldy bread." It's not the most appealing image, perhaps, but it's a description of the moist mound of growth media tended by bioscientist Cliff Bradley and his partner, chemical engineer Bob Kearns at their biofuel facility in Butte, Mont., that could help cut ethanol costs at the fuel pump. [More] rss.sciam.com |
New fishing rules shown to help depleted stocks The globe’s fisheries have taken a deep nose-dive in the past few decades. But a new paper, to be published in tomorrow’s Science, finds that improved management is finally beginning to pull some stocks back from the brink. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Better Materials Could Build a Green Construction Industry The construction industry consumes truckloads of basic materials, the manufacture of which consumes massive quantities of energy, producing prodigious emissions of greenhouse gases. If materials scientists and entrepreneurs can devise materials that can be fabricated with less energy, climate change could be slowed and many new manufacturing jobs could be created, fulfilling a much-anticipated promise of clean-tech innovation. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Climate change cover-up? You better believe it Was Sen. James Inhofe right when he declared 2009 the year of the climate contrarian ? A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists--including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade. [More] rss.sciam.com |