Recycling electronics waste
Many electronic manufacturers are looking beyond the production and marketing of electronics. They are actively engaged in recovery and recycling of electronic equipment once they…
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Banning the use of plastic bags at supermarkets
The City of Los Angeles on May 23, 2012 adopted a resolution authorizing the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the proposed ordinance…
The Tokyo Skytree uses LED to beam light and save energy
Article written by Life as a pet The Tokyo Skytree, a communication, broadcasting, restaurant and an observation tower, was opened in May 2012 in Sumida,…
‘Hack the Dinos’ Helps Paleontologists
A November contest at the American Museum of Natural History gave programmers a chance to develop ways to manage a glut of data.
Ticks that transmit Lyme disease reported in nearly half of all US counties
Lyme disease is transmitted by the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and the western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus), and the range of these ticks is spreading, according to new research.
SpaceX launches Jason-3 satellite to monitor sea levels
Jason-3, a U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation that will continue a nearly quarter-century record of tracking global sea level rise, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Sunday at 10:42 a.m. PST (1:42 p.m. EST) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.Jason-3 is an international mission led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in partnership with NASA, the French space agency CNES, and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.”Jason-3 will take the pulse of our changing planet by gathering environmental intelligence from the world's oceans,” said Stephen Volz, assistant administrator for NOAA's Satellite and Information Service.
Quiet quasar has apparently eaten its fill
Astronomers have announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas. Their conclusions clarify why quasar SDSS J1011+5442 changed so dramatically in the handful of years between observations.
By the dozen: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mirrors
One dozen flight mirrors are now installed on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror. The assembly of the primary mirror is an important milestone for the Webb telescope, but is just one component of this huge and complex observatory.
Planet’s eco-system under threat of climate change
Eco-system includes flora and fauna including birds, animals, people, trees and host of other things. The whole system is intertwined. Actions of people not only…
Celebrate Earth Day and help the planet
Earth Day 2015 is Wednesday, April 22, 2015. It is a worldwide annual event held to support the protection of our environment. Started in 1970,…