The Nuon Solar Team has won the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge for the sixth time in its Nuna8 solar car. Never before has this race – which takes teams right through the […]
The Nuon Solar Team Becomes World Solar Racing Champion In Australia
Live Chicken Warning
With backyard poultry ownership in urban areas of the US increasing in recent decades, cities should adopt policies to reduce the risk of infectious disease from contact with live chickens, according to […]
Food Or Fuel? How About both?
by American Society of Agronomy In the United States, federal mandates to produce more renewable fuels, especially biofuels, have led to a growing debate: Should fuel or food grow on arable land? Recent […]
The Moment Of Truth – Where The Open Skies Meet The Open Sees
Will Solar Impulse Make It From Nagoya Japan To Hawaii Usa Without A Drop Of Fuel? by Solar Impulse Attempting the first ever Round-The-World solar flight to inspire innovation and encourage the use of clean technologies, […]
The Science Of Vertical Gardens In An Urban Landscape
The 7R Future Leadership Institute is supported by a steady growing membership base. Mr. Teun Depreeuw joined “The 7R Future Leadership Institute”, more specifically the chapter “Urban Leadership”. Teun Depreeuw is founder and owner […]
Turning Paper Industry Waste Into Chemicals
by Ilse Frederickx and Katrien Bollen | KU Leuven Researchers at the KU Leuven Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis have found a more eco-friendly way to derive lignin – a paper industry waste […]
Building Expertise To Protect The Serengeti
by Norwegian University of Science and Technology A huge wildebeest herd migrates across the open, parched plains. Dust swirls up from the many hooves pounding the ground, and forms a haze over […]
Stanford Researcher Imagines A World Without Large, Plant-Eating Animals
by Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Imagine the death of the world’s last elephant. An international team of ecologists, including Stanford biologist Rodolfo Dirzo, did just that, not only […]
Exposure Of US Population To Extreme Heat Could Quadruple By Mid-Century
by Laura Snider | NCAR/UCAR U.S. residents’ exposure to extreme heat could increase four- to six-fold by mid-century, due to both a warming climate and a population that’s growing especially fast in […]
Six Times More Expensive To Travel By Car Than By Bicycle: Study
by Lund University It is six times more expensive for society – and for you individually – if you travel by car instead of cycling. This has been shown in a Lund […]
Sedona-Verde Valley To Launch New National Geographic Tourism Initiative
by National Geographic | Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau Organizations in the Arizona communities of Sedona, Cottonwood, Clarkdale, Camp Verde, Jerome and Yavapai-Apache Nation are joining with National Geographic Maps to […]
Climate Change’s Impacts on Arctic Wildlife
by USDA Forest Service -Pacific Northwest Research Station Of the 201 bird and mammal species that call northwest Alaska’s arctic and subarctic region their home, 195 of them–or, roughly, 97 percent–could experience […]
March 26, 2015: FLI Seminar: Urban Leadership: The Science Behind Vertical Gardens
Researcher and speaker: Teun Depreeuw Topic: The Science Behind Vertical Gardens In An Urban Environment Date: 26 March 2015 Language: Dutch Venue: EcoHuis Turnhoutsebaan 139 2140 Borgerhout Belgium Tel: +32 3 217 08 11 […]
NASA Science Leads New York City Climate Change 2015 Report
The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) 2015, co-chaired by a NASA researcher, published its latest report which details significant future increases in temperature, precipitation and sea level in the […]
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