Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. The Layers of the Earth
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

The asthenosphere is the highly viscous mechanically weak region of the upper mantle of the Earth on which "float" the continental plates. It lies below the lithosphere, at depths between 60 and 120 miles ...

2. Artificial Light and Productivity
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Artificial light has, throughout history, been a powerful force contributing to the quality and productivity of human life. It is so significant to human life that society spends an enormous amount of ...

3. China reducing rare earth export quota as environmental protection measure
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China's decision to slash export quotas of rare earth elements was a necessary step to protect the country's environment, commerce minister Chen Deming said following criticism from Japanese officials.  ...

4. From sponges, a potential cancer drug
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... that sponges, or bacteria that live in symbiosis with them, release agelastatins into their watery environment to warn other sponge species not to colonize the area. Copying nature Agelas sponges, which ...

5. Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to a Variety of Diseases
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Vitamin D is a type of fat-soluble steroid that can take two separate forms, vitamin D2 and D3, whose actual names are Ergocalciferol and Cholecalciferol. It is produced in the skin from exposure to ultraviolet ...

6. Sizing samples
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... between them. For instance, one node might represent asthma, and the others could be a host of environmental, physiological and genetic factors. Some of the factors might be correlated with asthma, others ...

7. Truckers to appeal ruling for LA anti-smog program (AP)
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AP - Environmentalists on Friday hailed a federal judge's ruling that allows the nation's largest port to enforce anti-smog rules on big rigs that haul goods in and out. ...

8. Obama to commemorate Katrina on 5th anniversary (AP)
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AP - President Barack Obama will use the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to reaffirm his commitment to the Gulf Coast amid lingering questions over his administration's response to the BP oil spill. ...

9. Engineers to remove temporary cap from Gulf well (AP)
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... — all while trying to avoid more damage to the environment.  ...

10. Salvage operation could offer up clues to US oil spill (AFP)
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AFP - Efforts this weekend to salvage BP's blowout preventer could bring to the surface a key piece of evidence in the inquiry into the largest maritime oil spill in history.

11. Scientists: We've cracked wheat's genetic code (AP)
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AP - British scientists have decoded the genetic sequence of wheat — one of the world's oldest and most important crops — a development they hope could help the global staple meet the challenges ...

12. Key BP engineer refuses to testify at hearing (AP)
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AP - A BP drilling engineer who was a key decision maker at the rig in the Gulf of Mexico that blew up in April has refused to testify before a federal panel investigating the incident.

13. China urgently needs to reverse coal dependency: Greenpeace (AFP)
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AFP - Greenpeace said Friday that China "urgently" needed to reduce its dependency on coal, saying the emissions produced by its use posed a major threat to public health in the fast-growing Asian nation. ...

14. AP ENTERPRISE: Oil cleanup both bonanza and bust (AP)
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AP - The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others.

15. Scientists publish key wheat genome (AFP)
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AFP - A consortium of scientists on Friday published the first genome for wheat, an achievement that should benefit food security challenged by Earth's surging population, climate change and an emerging ...

16. Los Angeles Zoo is home to 22 baby Komodo dragons (AP)
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AP - Twenty-two Komodo dragons have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo this month, giving a modest boost to the world's endangered population.

17. Judge orders EPA not to destroy records UP wants (AP)
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AP - A federal judge ordered the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to stop destroying records Union Pacific requested about lead contamination in Omaha, and an expert was appointed to make sure ...

18. Indonesia seeks huge payout for oil spill (AFP)
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AFP - Indonesia is seeking more than a billion dollars' compensation for environmental damage from an oil spill at a Thai-run rig off Australia's northwest coast, a report said Thursday.  ...

19. UN oil pollution probe in Nigeria will avoid blame (AFP)
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20. Fires cost Russia '300 billion dollars' in deforestation (AFP)
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AFP - Wildfires have cost Russia 300 billion dollars in forest loss, environmentalists said on Thursday, explaining the scale of the disaster by Vladimir Putin's "absurd" changes to forestry law.  ...

21. Tea and How Good It May Be
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Drinking tea is supposed to be healthy for you because of what it contains. In this case let us consider polyphenols. In theory, a polyphenol has the ability to act as an antioxidant to scavenge free ...

22. Whiskey Byproducts Could Produce Next Big Biofue
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Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have patented a process to produce biobutanol, a fuel that can be used in existing gasoline engines without any modifications, from whiskey by-products. In utilizing ...

23. Batteries Are the Shocking Truth about Electric Cars
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President Barack Obama flew to Holland, Mich., recently to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new lithium-ion battery plant, which the White House advertised as an example of federal stimulus grants ...

24. More green energy for the globe
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... is suitable for which sites, how best the political environment can be shaped more efficiently, what funding mechanisms can be used, as well as aspects of project management. Seven more seminars will be ...

25. Gulf waste heads to landfills, some with problems (AP)
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AP - The cleanup of history's worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were already dealing with environmental ...

26. Doctors try to identify dead in Nepal plane crash (AP)
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AP - Doctors struggled Wednesday to identify the remains of 14 people, including six foreign tourists, who were killed in a plane crash while heading to the Mount Everest region in heavy rain.

27. Oil spill panel hears about Halliburton warning (AP)
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AP - Federal investigators probing the blowout that led to the Gulf oil spill grilled a Halliburton official Tuesday about concerns the petroleum services firm raised over the potential for a severe gas ...

28. Florida says visitors up despite Gulf oil spill (Reuters)
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Reuters - The number of visitors to Florida from April through June increased, despite the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but the rise in tourists would have been much bigger without the disaster, a state ...

29. New bacteria degrades oil faster, in deep, cold water: study (AFP)
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AFP - A new species of bacteria found in the Gulf of Mexico degrades oil faster at deeper and colder depths than expected, scientists said Tuesday in a study that could explain how the BP oil spill has ...

30. Hezbollah urges power-starved Lebanon to build nuclear plant (AFP)
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AFP - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday called on Lebanon to consider building a nuclear power plant in the energy-starved nation.