The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization. The IARC Monographs identify environmental factors that can increase the risk of human cancer. Scientists classified agents as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans in accordance with the Preamble to the IARC Monographs:
Group 1: The agent is carcinogenic to humans.
Group [...]
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Ecological Footprint
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, people, resource, risorse, salute, science, society, sustainability, tagged calculator, earth, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, ecosystem, footprint, human, impronta, index, indice, measurament, misura, regeneration, rifiuti, rigenerare, test, waste, welfare on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate it. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste, given [...]
Nonostante lo studio tedesco pubblicato da Nature, resta alta la preoccupazione per il global warming
Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, resource, risorse, science, sustainability, tagged clima, CO2, ecologia, effetto serra, IPCC, nature, riscaldamento on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nature ha pubblicato uno studio tedesco secondo cui nei prossimi 10 anni avremo una temporanea diminuzione delle temperature dovuta al raffreddamento delle correnti atlantiche, evento che avviene naturalmente ogni 60-70 anni. In termini di tempi del pianeta dieci anni non sono che un battito di ciglia, dal 2020 le temperature riprenderanno a salire come previsto [...]
Memristor – HP Researchers Build Intelligent Memory
Posted in data, energy, science, technology, tagged brain, brain like, chua, computer, data, energy, hp, intelligence, memoria, memory, memristor, memristore, ram on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
April 2008
Researchers at HP Labs create the memristor — short for memory resistor – could make it possible to develop far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that retain information even after the power is off, so there’s no wait for the system to boot up after turning the computer on. It may even be [...]
Turning Fungus Into Fuel: Organism With Taste For Olive Drab Shows Promise For Greener Energy
Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, resource, risorse, science, sustainability, technology, tagged biodiesel, biofuel, biofuels, carburanti, cellulose, diesel, enzyme, fuel, fungo, fungus, gliocladium roseum, idrocarburi, mico diesel, micodiesel, montana, mushroom, patagonia, strobel, sugar, T. reesei rose on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May 5, 2008
A spidery fungus with a voracious appetite for military uniforms and canvas tents could hold the key to improvements in the production of biofuels, a team of government, academic and industry researchers has announced.
The fungus T. reesei rose to dubious fame during World War II when military leaders discovered it was responsible for [...]
SunDiesel – made by CHOREN
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, resource, science, sustainability, technology, tagged biocarburanti, biofuel, biomass to liquid, biomasse, btl, carburante, choren, climate, CO2, combustibile, daimler, diesel, enviroment, fischer, fischer-tropsch, freiberg, fuel, germania, germany, legno, mercedes, paglia, sassonia, shell, sundiesel, tropsch, volkswagen, wood on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Renewable, synthetic automotive fuels will guarantee future mobility. Synthetic biofuels, also known as BtL fuels (Biomass to Liquids), are largely CO2-neutral and therefore play a major role in protecting our environment and climate. SunDiesel®, one of the range of SunFuel® products, is currently being introduced to the public arena in conjunction with Daimler AG and [...]
Rubbia: «L’eolico è inutile Puntiamo su sole e idrogeno»
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, resource, science, sustainability, technology, tagged ambiente, anidride carbonica, biomasse, clima, CO2, combustibile, ecologia, effetto serra, energi eolica, energia, energia solare, energie rinnovabili, eolico, idrocarburi, idrogeno, inquinamento, nobel, petrolio, rubbia, sole, veicoli on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
09 marzo 2007
«Parlando di energie rinnovabili molto chiacchierate ma poco coltivate, è inutile insistere con l’energia eolica perché di vento ce n’è poco nella Penisola al contrario dei Paesi del Nord o dell’Irlanda. Anche la biomassa rappresenta una nicchia limitata. Invece il sole è l’unica sorgente che abbiamo abbondante e ancora da sfruttare. Noi, con [...]
Google Ocean – Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
Posted in IT, cooperation, data, ecology, enviroment, free, internet, media, science, technology, web 2.0, web application, tagged 3D, algae blooms, bathymetry, coral reef, currents, data, database, enviroment, google, google maps, google ocean, lamont_doherty, map, mape, mapping, ocean, oceani, sea, shipwreck, topografia, topography, weather patterns on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level–Google Ocean. The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts to create a 3D oceanographic map.
The tool–for now called Google Ocean, is expected to be similar to other 3D online mapping applications. People will be [...]
Oxygen Depletion Zones In Tropical Oceans Expanding, Maybe Due To Global Warming
Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, resource, risorse, science, sustainability, tagged clima, climate, climate change, ecologia, ecology, effetto serra, greenhouse, ocean, oceani, ossigeno, oxygen on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ScienceDaily (May 2, 2008)
Scientists confirm computer model predictions that oxygen-depleted zones in tropical oceans are expanding, possibly because of climate change. An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the [...]
