Roadsides may provide butterfly corridors
...oads has several drawbacks, including being hit by cars and being contaminated by the heavy metals in exhaust. So the big question about restoring roadsides is: Do the benefits of this additional habitat outweigh the risks? "We don't know the answer to this for any species," says Ries. The answer may vary......with giant ants scaled up in a huge size attacking cars and people. If these larger-than-life ants had the same proportions as their much smaller counterparts, their legs would break with the first step. To be much larger than life-size, an ant's exoskeleton would have to be disproportionately much thic...New study reveals a major cause of global warming - ordinary soot
... environment than gasoline - simply because diesel cars get better mileage than those that run on gas. Fo...oxide. Currently, about one-fourth of all European cars run on diesel, as do most European and American trucks, buses and tractors. ``Besides its impact on ...Report: auto accidents involving deer still increasing across North Carolina
...dmont, but there were a lot more here because more cars are on the roads. More than 60 percent of all N.C....nknown thousands of others died after being hit by cars and trucks, Osborne said. "I estimate that between 10,000 and 12,000 deer are killed on highways...Colorado U. study indicates Denver area drivers unmoved by state air quality advisories
...dies Program. "But the results also indicate that cars are very dear to our culture. Clearly the message is getting out, but it is not affecting behavior." Of the respondents, 79 percent said they regularly commuted to work and 5 percent said they sometimes commuted. Seventy-five percent of commuters...Evidence links protein damage to Parkinson's
...much like oxidation causes rust damage to metal in cars and buildings. This damage has been implicated in causing neurodegenerative disorders. "We found that alpha-synuclein itself is a target of oxidative stress, specifically nitration, within these lesions, " says Lee. "This is the first time anybody ......ty to intuitively categorize images of animals and cars into proper classes). When given a clustering task, it analyzes the data, computes the degree of similarity among its components, and determines its own clustering criteria. The new method makes use of a previous application by Domany and his co...Pollution from urban sprawl threatens aquatic life in major U.S. cities
...DDT or PCBs, Van Metre said. "People realize that cars and traffic cause air pollution, but they are not ...ed the increase was almost exclusively due to more cars on the roadways. The compounds are typically carried to the waterways by stormwater. The research ci...National conference to discuss changing rural landscapes
...at Montana State University-Bozeman. They see more cars on the highways. They see changes in land use that can only be described as "stunning." But most people don't know how much the rural landscape is changing, Hansen said. They may not realize that, for only the second time in 100 years, more peo...UF technique detects tiny, potentially harmful airborne particles
...e specificity that these particles are coming from cars or plants or agriculture, then we can go after these sources and fix them." Ben Smith, a scientist in UF's chemistry department, said Hahn's technique is one of two current techniques that can detect and measure extremely small, sparsely distributed...UC Davis research helps state air board set auto-emission rules
...s on notice that by 2003 a fixed percentage of the cars they sell in California will have to be emission-f...ed for the California market soon finds its way to cars sold in the rest of the world. Some of the influential studies published by the Institute of Transpo...New class of supramolecular complexes bind to DNA
...ng setups must be studied in order to maximize the cars performance. This same idea is achieved in our supramolecular complexes by removing and replacing parts of complex to study how it changes how the complex binds to DNA." The second goal of this research was to develop methods to detect and study ...Catalytic converters fix one pollution problem, cause another
...spoon - per hundred miles. They also found that cars equipped with modern catalytic converters emit app...bons, carbon monoxide and other harmful gases than cars in earlier studies. The researchers note, however, that the current study included more vehicles wit...Fuel cell research center to develop and test new technologies
...ypes, sizes and configurations of batteries to run cars and other devices. Georgia Tech's center will focus on fuel cell and battery technology for wireless telecommunications, ultra-low emission vehicles and distributed stationary power supplies. The new center is developing new integrated facilities for...Faulty practices threaten condor program
...is has created birds that readily approach people, cars and buildings," said Vicky Meretsky, assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and lead author of the journal article. In the past year there have been repeated instances of condors prying shingles of...UniStates, Tufts University collaborate on new technology
...make lightweight materials used in everything from cars and planes to roads and bridges. "I am happy to be working with the talented engineers at Tufts University," said Charles R. Owens, chairman of UniStates. "Together we plan to work with private industry and government to make consumer and industri...New UNC analysis of N.C. accident records shows growth in motor vehicle-deer crashes
...unknown thousands of others die after being hit by cars and trucks, Osborn said. "I estimate that between 10,000 and 12,000 deer are killed on highways each year, out of a total deer mortality of about 315,000," he said. "In a lot of accidents, deer are not killed and often not even injured." Peak mont...Study: Methane cleans nitric oxide from power plant emissions
...ric oxide is a common byproduct of combustion, and cars and fossil-fuel burning power plants are two chief sources of the molecule. Once released, nitric oxide reacts with oxygen to produce nitric acid -- a main component of acid rain -- and ...UF research suggests widely used models may under predict pollution
...er models underlying regulations on pollution from cars and other sources in many of the nation's largest cities may significantly underestimate pollution levels. Jean Andino, a UF assistant professor of environmental engineering, said the models are based in part on studies of how gases combine to form ...... are going to be different," he says. Fuel-stingy cars will likely get about 80 miles to the gallon and u...al hazards posed by pure hydrogen, early fuel-cell cars probably will draw theirhydrogen from gasoline or some other hydrocarbon fuel. An on-board chemical ...