Canada's new government launches ecoEnergy technology initiative
...ated approach built on key priorities that include carbon dioxide sequestration, clean coal, clean oil sands production and renewable energy. Priorities will be further developed with provinces and industry partners through consultations. ...Training breathing muscles improves swimming muscles' performance
...hile a re-breathing bag insured that the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood was held constant, in spite of the hyperventilation during the training. During PRMT, subjects performed a series of 10-second breath-holds, with 90-second rest periods between breath-holds, using the same equipment as in RRMT ...Quantum biology -- Powerful computer models reveal key biological mechanism
...re's really nothing different physically between a carbon atom in a protein and a carbon atom in a nanotube," he said. "Even though a protein is such an asymmetric, complex system, when you...How trees manage water in arid environments
...to characterize the surface exchanges of water and carbon dioxide in a forest in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Ariz. Mountain forests are an important source of water for the rest of such semi-arid regions, and these forests provide relatively isolated conditions where scientists can get a clear...Researchers identify a 'heartbeat' in Earth's climate
...ations in the earth's natural orbital patterns and carbon cycles. The researchers were particularly inter...tions between external climate forcing, the global carbon cycle and ice sheet oscillations," said Dr. Jens Herrle, co-author of the paper and a micropaleontol...NASA data helps pinpoint wildfire threats
...landscape and environment, including the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. As the data record from recent satellites continues to grow, scientists will also be able to better track historical changes that might modify fire danger to provide better information for decision makers....Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year 2007-2008
...ding such variables as nutrients, chlorophyll, and carbon dioxide, and will also test for the presence of man-made contaminants. This information will be paired with physical measurements that provide clues to water mass movement and sea ice formation, and observations that document the presence and behavio...It's enough to turn your neighbors green
... is the main driver of investment decisions. For carbon sequestration projects, such as Americas investment in the conversion of marginal agricultural lands to commercial tree plantations in Costa Rica, location decision is based on the host countrys potential for avoiding deforestation as well as by prev...Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
...ons; Sequester up to 1.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide each year from the global atmosphere (and curb the 1 billion metric tons of carbon emitted through soil erosion); Improve water resources; Enhance biodiversity within soils as ...Soil nutrition affects carbon sequestration in forests
...espond to increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas driving cl...ion, trees respond to elevated CO2 by transferring carbon below ground, then recycling it back to the atmospheric through respiration. "With sufficient so...Identification of carbon dioxide receptors in insects may help fight infectious disease
Mosquitoes dont mind morning breath. They use the carbon dioxide people exhale as a way to identify a poten...tors in fruit flies that help these insects detect carbon dioxide. The findings could prove to be important against the fight against global infectious diseas...Drop in acid rain altering Appalachian stream water
...cal activity in the ecosystem and hiking dissolved carbon dioxide in forest streams. "These are unexpected r...forest hydrology at Penn State. "Rising amounts of carbon dioxide in streams and soil could have implications for the forest ecosystem, and the carbon balance...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- December 6, 2006
...development of a new method for making single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that could eliminate a major ba...that changes carbohydrates, fats and proteins into carbon dioxide and water to generate energy. Scot T. Martin and Xiang V. Zhang explain that a reverse ve...A window on the environment from Tahoe to the ocean
...lls up from the deep ocean, drawing to the surface carbon dioxide and nutrients that create some of the worl... fog that move inland, carrying water and trapping carbon dioxide and tiny particles in the air. Researchers want to understand more about how fluctuations in...Self-assembling nano-ice discovered at UNL -- Structure resembles DNA
...f DNA and self-assemble under high pressure inside carbon nanotubes. This discovery could have major implica...am of four new kinds of one-dimensional ice inside carbon nanotubes. Scientists elsewhere later confirmed through laboratory experiment the existence of three...Ancient climate change may portend toasty future
...primate ancestors. But understanding just how much carbon was responsible for the temperature increase and w...ns elusive. The new calculations used data from carbon found in fossils of ancient land plants and tiny marine organisms known as plankton. "We can tell th...MIT: Engineered yeast speeds ethanol production
..., then yeast ferments the glucose into ethanol and carbon dioxide. Last year, four billion gallons of ethanol were produced from 1.43 billion bushels of corn grain (including kernels, stalks, leaves, cobs, husks) in the United States, according to the Department of Energy. In comparison, the United States ...Engineered yeast speeds ethanol production
..., then yeast ferments the glucose into ethanol and carbon dioxide. Last year, four billion gallons of ethanol were produced from 1.43 billion bushels of corn grain (including kernels, stalks, leaves, cobs, husks) in the United States, according to the Department of Energy. In comparison, the United States...Mixed prairie grasses are better biofuel source, U of M study says
...airie plants can reduce global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Even when grown on in...cing and using them actually reduces the amount of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere. This is because prairie plants store more carbon in th...Global warming of the future is projected by ancient carbon emissions
...n years ago suggests a high climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide, according to research led by Mark Pagani...s, scientists have known that a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere caused the ancient global warming event known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Ma...