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New Appliance Elminates The Need for Detergent or Hot Water When Washing Clothes

Living Life Better is offering a new appliance which attaches to a standard washing machine to replace the need for detergent and hot water and is set to change the way laundry is done

21 Aug 2008

Coal Burning in Northern Hemisphere Leaves Potentially Harmful Heavy Metal Legacy

New research, reported this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth's polar regions.

19 Aug 2008

Threats to Marine Ecosystems from Climate Change Must be Addressed to Halt Downward Trends

Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world's oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they are facing.

14 Aug 2008

Manure and Wastewater Polluting Water and Endagering Health in the Gaza Strip

Palestinian and German scientists have recommended to the authorities in the Gaza Strip that they take immediate measures to combat excessive nitrate levels in the drinking water

14 Aug 2008

Turning Highways and Parking Lots into Solar Collectors

Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun's warmth. Now, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found a way to use that heat-soaking property for an alternative energy source.

12 Aug 2008

Greenblock Insulated Concrete Form Wall Systems to Benefit Housing in Locations With Extreme Weather and Temperatures

Greenblock Worldwide Corporation, a leader and pioneer in the insulated concrete form (ICF) industry, announced that they have begun marketing their ICF products and installation services in Arizona

10 Aug 2008

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Climate Change and Forecasting Global Warming

Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming activity

7 Aug 2008

Acid Rain Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice Paddies

Acid rain from atmospheric pollution can reduce methane emissions from rice paddies by up to 24 per cent according to research led by Dr Vincent Gauci of The Open University

6 Aug 2008