Worries over the future of Thailand’ s famous elephants have emerged following an investigation by a University of Manchester team.
Professor Rosaleen Duffy and Dr Lorraine Moore from the University’ s School of Social Sciences say many problems have endured since the ending of the logging trade which employed virtually all Thai elephants in 1989.
The ban […]
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Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America’s entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), according to US research published today, Thursday, 24 July, in the Institute of Physics’ Environmental Research Letters.
The journal […]
Washington, D.C. Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers found that, contrary to previous thought, water was not entirely vaporized in the violent events that formed the Moon.
The new study suggests that the water […]
The search for the source of a salmonella outbreak involving raw tomatoes turns its focus to farms and distributors in Florida and Mexico.
Reports of hundreds of people sickened in the outbreak have been coming in since April. As of this weekend, the Centers for Disease Control puts the total at 552 people in 32 states […]
Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.
“It must be ice,” said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson. “These little clumps […]
As the search drags on for the source of the recent salmonella outbreak involving certain kinds of tomatoes, the number of people sickened has gone up.
The Centers for Disease Control said Monday that the total is now 277 people in 28 states and the District of Columbia. The outbreak of the Saintpaul strain of salmonella […]
These days many Americans dream of driving a car that runs on anything besides gasoline. That’s why the newest announcement from American Honda Motor Co., Inc. is raising a lot of interest.
The automaker said today its first FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle will roll off the assembly line next month, and go only to […]
Nearly two weeks into the outbreak of salmonella-tainted tomatoes, and U. S. health officials have yet to pinpoint the source.
Both the Food & Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating the outbreak that dates back to mid-April.
Since then, there have been 228 cases of salmonellosis nationwide caused by Salmonella Saintpaul, an uncommon form […]