A campaign by Greenpeace is calling on video game console makers Sony, Microsft and Nintendo to decrease the amount of toxic materials used in their products, saying they are lagging behind others in the tech industry in doing so.
Monitoring Volcano Threats from Space
Volcanoes can have extremely wide ranging effects. Even a single eruption can cause disastrous climate changes at great distance from the source. Thus, it is important to have a system to monitor even the most remote volcanoes. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra spacecraft and other satellite sensors provide imagery that is critical to the global volcano monitoring solution.
NASA Hurricane Animation Improves Storm Damage Prediction
A student intern science team has developed new computer graphics using data from the NASA QuickScat satellite, TRMM, Jason-1 and Aqua that will yield a better understanding of the potential destructiveness of Pacific storms.
"The Biggest Environmental Crime in History"
In what environmentalists are deeming “the greatest environmental crime in history,” the British oil company, BP, is investing $1.5 billion in a project to extract oil from tar sands in the Canadian wilderness – a method that is both highly inefficient and ecologically destructive – effectively departing from its eco-friendly image under the “Beyond Petroleum” motto.
Bio-Rock: Shock Treatment for Coral Reefs
“Bio-Rock” – a procedure created by scientist Thomas Goreau and late architect Wolf Hilbertz – is being used to stimulate growth in threatened coral reefs by bringing them into close contact with low-voltage electricity and speeding the formation of a key building component in coral reefs.
Earth Observations Used To Predict and Prevent Pandemic Outbreaks
The ability of infectious diseases to thrive depends on changes in the Earth’s environment such as the climate, precipitation and vegetation of an area. NASA scientists have used Earth observations to help predict and prevent infectious disease outbreaks around the world. Remote sensing technologies are used for predicting the outbreak of some of the most common and deadly infectious diseases … Read More
Mitigating Climate Change with Geoengineering
As scientists debate whether human activity will lead to disastrous or catastrophic climate change, some discuss how geoengineering could mitigate the changes through global manipulation of the environment. Yikes!
Move over wind power, here come the tornadoes
Canadian inventor patents the Atmospheric Vortex Engine that uses excess heat generated by power plant to create a vortex from which pressure at the base of the vortex is used to drive a turbine and generate electricity.
ESA's Earth Observation Programmes: Advancing Earth Science Through New Sensing Technology
The European Space Agency (ESA) has dedicated a substantial part of its programmes to observing the Earth since the launch of its first meteorological mission Meteosat in 1977. Following this mission, the subsequent series of Meteosat satellites, the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions and, more recently, Envisat, the largest Earth observation (EO) satellite ever built, have provided a wealth of data about the Earth, its climate and changing environment.
New Insights From Creatures' Perspective
Camaras mounted to endangered species are being used to study their behaviour.