Early fire risk for mountains near Los Angeles
...parral ecosystem will reach a critically low live fuel moisture level of 71 percent July 13, with a one- ...ture falls below the thresholds, he says. Low live fuel moisture is one ingredient in producing large fires in Southern California. You also need high winds...UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...he mostenergy-efficient and environmentally benign fuel crops can berealized. "The DOE JBEI will be a center of intellectual thought and provideenergy research leadership designed to meet its program objectivesquickly and effectively," said Graham Fleming, deputy director ofBerkeley Lab. Bioenergy at...Burning fat and carbohydrate during exercise
...ost only carbohydrates are used. Is this shift in fuel source a property of the muscle itself, or does it...e at the University of Copenhagen, examined muscle fuel utilisation in response to graded exercise performed with only one leg. Nine healthy males performed......tly in high yields to a primary building block for fuel and polyesters, said Z. Conrad Zhang, senior author who led the research and a scientist with the PNNL-based Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, or IIC. That building block is called HMF, which stands for hydroxymethylfurfural. It is a chemical de...Chemical Society Boston meeting, Aug. 19-23, focuses on health, wellness, energy, environment
..., and health care Biofuels New advances in fuel cell and solar cell technology Using silicone polymers in skin care products...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...ble power. Worse, they fear it will prolong fossil fuel use, if fossil fuels from some stationary sources can be used more cleanly. But the researchers continually emphasize the need to adopt other technologies in addition to carbon sequestration. ''Geological sequestration is going to be one of a fam...Salvage logging, replanting increased biscuit fire severity
...on the assumption that removing dead trees reduces fuel loads and planting conifers hastens the return of ... because the logging process leaves more available fuel on the forest floor; the dense, homogenous replantation of young trees provides a good setting for f...Energy and Agriculture Departments provide $8.3 million in funding for biofuels research
...hat will accelerate the development of alternative fuel resources. These research projects build upon DOEs... 20 percent in ten years, research and alternative fuel production needs to expand beyond corn ethanol, Secretary Johanns said. These grants diversify the ...Better chemistry through living models
...nomically feasible to produce energy from hydrogen fuel cells. This is a basic research project, but one...production of hydrogen or oxidation of hydrogen in fuel cells, said Morris Bullock, co-leading the project with Dan DuBois. Both Bullock and DuBois are mem...Nitrate in Lake Superior: On the rise
...gricultural fertilizers and is generated by fossil fuel combustion. Nitrate in Lake Superior has increased about five-fold since the earliest measurements in 1906. This level of nitrate doesn't reflect either post-World War II increases in fertilizer and fossil fuels, which would tend to increase levels...Washington University in St. Louis to invest $55 million for renewable energy research
... produce cheap and plentiful hydrogen for hydrogen fuel cell use. I-CARES will engage Washington University researchers in science, engineering, architecture, social science and policy, and medicine. Bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees and other educational programs related to energy, environment and ...Women up to age 30 at risk for bone loss, study finds
...gh. If their diet does not supply enough energy to fuel their exercise level, though, they may be harming themselves. They need to replenish those calories. Earlier studies showed that too few calories (low energy availability) disrupts the reproductive system and impairs bone formation in teens and col...Dietary vitamin B6, B12 and folate, may decrease pancreatic cancer risk among lean people
...use it suggests that something in the vitamins may fuel pancreatic cancer growth, Dr. Schernhammer said. This isnt the first study to suggest that folate, and vitamin B6 and B12 − so called one carbon nutrients − are protective against pancreatic cancer if they come from food, but not if the...Soils offer new hope as carbon sink
...g the planet, because they convert crop waste into fuel and agrichar which can be used to enhance soil fertility and store carbon long-term. NSW DPI senior research scientist Dr Lukas Van Zwieten said soils naturally emit about 10 times more greenhouse gas on a global scale than the burning of fossil fue...Small-scale agricultural changes may help eradicate widespread disease
...acteria give off methane, which villagers use as a fuel for cooking. The digestion process also destroys eggs of Schistosoma, leaving a family with a more sanitary fertilizer to use on their crops (the farmers in these villages typically use raw animal and human waste to fertilize their crops.) In this st...Molecular motors may speed nutrient processing
...tines of rats or mice, and added ATP, the chemical fuel for myosin-1a. Through the microscope, they watched the cell membrane move toward the tips of the microvilli and pop off the ends in the form of vesicles, tiny bubble-like packets. Their findings, reported in the May 21 Journal of Cell Biology with o...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 23, 2007
...fertilizers to the perchlorate compounds in rocket fuel and explosives. Scientists long suspected that community fireworks displays were another source, but few studies had been done on the topic. Wilkin's group definitely established fireworks displays as a source of perchlorate contamination by analyz...First confirmed common genetic risk factors for breast cancer
...nternational research collaboration hopefully will fuel the development of more effective ways of preventing and treating breast cancer, Dr. Liu said that the most immediate benefit of the new results may be in understanding the molecular mechanisms of breast cancer. The Nature paper is the second major...Stem cells may look malignant, not act it
...of Stem Cells. But whether that enables them to fuel cancer's ability to develop and then spread, as some scientists suspect, is not entirely clear. The findings, available early in this month's online edition of the journal, actually contest the increasingly popular theory that bone marrow stem cells ......," he says. "While it wouldn't be enough energy to fuel a run on the beach, maybe it could help you to open an eyelid." ...