Category: Project Green
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Vegetarian birds more sociable than insect eaters, shows research
Newswise — Weaver birds that eat seeds flock together and nest in colonies more commonly than those species that eat insects, suggests new research by an international team of scientists led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. For the first time, the study statistically supports an influential ecological hypothesis on social behaviour…
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Use your cellphone to improve weather forecasts
Newswise — Ahead of World Meteorological Day, you can help improve weather forecasting models with CAMALIOT, an infrastructure and app that uses GPS from smartphones to support scientific research. Join our crowdsourcing campaign on 17 March 2022 ̶ any person with access to an Android cellphone is invited to download the free app and participate.…
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Bean cultivation in diverse agricultural landscapes promotes bees and increases yields
Researchers led by Göttingen University study bee behaviour and bean harvests Pollination by insects is essential for the production of many food crops. The presence of pollinators, such as bees, depends on the availability of nesting sites and sufficient food. If these conditions are lacking, the pollinators also fail to appear and the yield of…
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Recycling Greenhouse Gases with Biotechnology
Biological production of acetone and isopropanol by gas fermentation captures more carbon than it releases. The Science Acetone and isopropanol are important chemicals for industry. They are used to produce materials from jet fuel to solvents to detergents to plastics. Currently, industry produces these two chemicals from petroleum using processes that release carbon dioxide and…
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Identifying Global Poverty From Space
Newswise — Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people are still living without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which in turn negatively affects health and welfare, and impedes sustainable development. Knowing where these people are is crucial if aid and infrastructure are to reach them. A…
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SeaWorld Surpasses 40,000 Animal Rescues Underscoring the Ongoing Need to Help Sick, Injured and Orphaned Animals
Rescue and rehabilitation are a vital first step in species preservation Dozens of species, including many threatened and endangered animals, have been helped by SeaWorld since 1965 One of the largest marine animal rescue organizations in the world, SeaWorld has rescue and rehabilitation operations located at each of its three parks SeaWorld is a professionally accredited…
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Toyota, NEEF and P2 Team Up on Pollinator Friendly Places Project
Partnership will enhance 26,000 acres of pollinator habitat over the next five years PLANO, Texas /PRNewswire/ — Pollinators put food on our tables. One out of every three bites we eat comes to us courtesy of pollinators such as bees, butterflies, moths, flower flies, beetles and bats. Today, Toyota is donating $400,000 to the National Environmental Education Foundation…
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New earthquake assessments available to strengthen preparedness in Europe
Newswise — During the 20th century, earthquakes in Europe accounted for more than 200,000 deaths and over 250 billion Euros in losses. Comprehensive earthquake hazard and risk assessments are crucial to reducing the effects of catastrophic earthquakes because earthquakes cannot be prevented nor precisely predicted. An international team of European seismologists, geologists, and engineers, with…
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Bryan Cranston Announced as Voice of New Yosemite Immersive Virtual Reality Experience
Oscar-Nominated Actor and Native Californian Joins Immersive Experience Celebrating Inspirational National Park NEW YORK  /PRNewswire/ —  CityLights, a leader in virtual reality specializing in bringing immersive cinematic storytelling to broader audiences, today announced that Oscar-nominated actor, Bryan Cranston, has signed on to voice its upcoming project, “Experience Yosemite.” Cranston, who is most known for his Golden…
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New Study Could Help Reduce Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Researchers use knowledge-guided machine learning to boost accuracy of agricultural nitrous oxide predictions Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has significantly improved the performance of numerical predictions for agricultural nitrous oxide emissions. The first-of-its-kind knowledge-guided machine learning model is 1,000 times faster than current…