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Trends & Innovations - Thursday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Solar cells based on fool's gold may one day be as efficient as silicon panels, but also much thinner and cheaper, says a Discovery News report. Researchers at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, and at Swiss firm NLV Solar are working to develop such cells, inspired in part by the fact that fool's gold, or pyrite, is one of Earth's most widely available minerals. The...
Broken Urine Recycler May Affect Space Mission
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - A broken device that recycles
astronaut urine into clean drinking water on the International Space Station
may have a slight impact to life onboard next week when NASA's shuttle Atlantis
arrives to boost the number of people there to 12.
THURSDAY 12. NOVEMBER 2009
Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs
(AP)
AP - Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said...
Poultry exec: Didn't check if rules were followed
(AP)
AP - A Cargill executive testified Thursday that he did not check to see if company farmers were following an environmental handbook he helped compile in 2002 that warned them not to spread excess chicken manure on their land because the runoff could pollute area water.
Groups challenge TVA river discharge from plant
(AP)
AP - Environmental activists are trying to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury, selenium and other pollutants into the same river where coal ash was spilled at its Kingston Plant.
Va. gov out of town for DNC as his state floods
(AP)
AP - With his state under an emergency declaration because of heavy rain and floods Thursday, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine was in Arkansas for a Democratic fundraiser.
New report: Pollution down in New Hampshire
(AP)
AP - A new report says carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in New Hampshire have declined by 14 percent between 2004 and 2007, reducing a decades-long trend.
Origin of Household Dust Pinned Down
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - No matter how much you clean, dust always comes back, and you might have wondered how it all gets there. Now, researchers have created a new computer model to explain what happens.
Stunning New Photograph of Earth from Space
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - A
comet-chasing spacecraft swinging by Earth this week has snapped magnificent new
images of our home planet.
Groups sue to make rare flying squirrel endangered
(AP)
AP - Environmental groups are suing the federal government to return a type of flying squirrel to the endangered species list.
National team to help manage bark beetle problem
(AP)
AP - A national team will help the U.S. Forest Service manage the attack against the beetle infestation that has swept through about 2.5 million acres of forests in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming.
Study Finds Missing Link in How Stars Die
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - How stars end their lives depends on how massive they are.
Mississippi sees "catastrophic" crop losses
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rain from Tropical Storm Ida further slowed the cotton, soybean and sweet potato harvest in Mississippi, where crop losses were devastating even before the storm hit, a state agriculture official said on Thursday.
Challenge to Brazil's storm explanation for blackout
(AFP)
AFP - Brazil's official explanation that a storm caused a massive blackout this week affecting 70 million people was challenged on Thursday by the state satellite monitoring...
NASA Unveils Plan to Free Stuck Mars Rover Spirit
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - Months of
planning are finally coming to fruition: NASA engineers are ready to begin
trying to maneuver the plucky rover Spirit out of its sand trap on Mars.
Vienna zoo's panda Fu Long heads for China
(AFP)
AFP - Fu Long the panda, Europe's first to be conceived naturally while in captivity, is to leave his home town of Vienna for China next week, the Schoenbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital said...
Cell Phone Use Linked to Brain Changes
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Peasants waving pitchforks and torches are not exactly storming the
castle, but the scientists are sure restless. Yet another scientific
study has come out questioning whether cell phone use is good for your
brain - and there's more on the way.
Space Station Gets New Russian Module
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - Astronauts
on the International Space Station welcomed the arrival of a brand-new Russian
module Thursday, an orbital room adds more research space and an extra parking spot for
visiting spacecraft.
US-Japan summit to focus on nuclear arms, climate: reports
(AFP)
AFP - US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama plan to call for a nuclear-free world and cooperation in fighting climate change when they hold talks here on Friday, reports...
Gene Therapy Brings New Muscle to Monkeys
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are reporting
that injections of genes into the leg muscles of monkeys helped the
animals gain muscle size and strength without side effects.
Boreal forests store carbon, need help: Canada study
(Reuters)
Reuters - The world needs to do more to protect boreal forests and peatlands, which store more carbon than any other ecosystem and help mitigate the effects of climate change, a Canadian report issued Thursday said.
Space station gets new research module
(AP)
AP - A cargo ship has delivered a Russian research module to the International Space Station.
EU-15 on track to surpass Kyoto target
(AFP)
AFP - The 15 European Union (EU) members which pledged to curb greenhouse gases by an overall eight percent under the UN's Kyoto Protocol are on track to beat the target, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on...
NASA to Subject Monkeys to Radiation
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - NASA plans to subject a group of monkeys to radiation to
study what might happen to humans on long-term space missions, such as trips to
the moon and Mars.
The Science Behind 'Stop Me If I've Told You This'
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - We've all said the equivalent of, "Stop me if I've told you this before," but now scientists have figured out why we can be so unsure what tales we've told to whom.