MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–September 13, 2012.   Transforming the Mall at the University of Arizona to organic programs has caught the attention of the local media in Tucson. Three weeks ago SafeLawns visited the University of Arizona’s new organic turfgrass trials. Our resulting blog about Merlin Organics caught the attention of the local[Read More…]

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–September 13, 2012.  MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up oil spills. They believe that, with their technique, the oil could be recovered for use, offsetting much of the cost of cleanup. The researchers will[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 13, 2012.  As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which is working to make solar energy competitive with other forms of energy without subsidy by the end of the decade, the Energy Department yesterday announced the start of a new competition to make it faster, easier, and cheaper[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 12, 2012.  Today the Center for American Progress released a map that highlights 30 national park units that face the prospect of future oil and gas drilling and 12 national park units that have current drilling operations. Among the 30 threatened areas, the Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 12, 2012.  Expectant mothers exposed to the pesticide additive piperonyl butoxide (PBO), widely used in synthetic prethroid insecticides and those ending in “thrin” (popular in mosquito spray programs), during pregnancy pass to their children a heightened risk of noninfectious cough at ages 5 and 6, according to researchers[Read More…]

Paves way for quantum computing and improvements in energy efficiency TORONTO, ON –(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2012.  An international team led by University of Toronto physicists has developed a simple new technique using Scotch poster tape that has enabled them to induce high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first time.  The[Read More…]

The green scum shown in this image is the worst algae bloom Lake Erie has experienced in decades. Such blooms were common in the lake’s shallow western basin in the 1950s and 60s. Phosphorus from farms, sewage, and industry fertilized the waters so that huge algae blooms developed year after[Read More…]

SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2012.  Companies fracking or drilling for oil and gas on public lands should be required to use pollution controls to cut harmful methane leaks contributing to the global climate crisis, according to a petition filed today to the Bureau of Land Management by the Center for Biological Diversity, Western[Read More…]

Members of the public have constructed an A to Z of galaxies in the night sky. UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–11 September 2012.  Volunteers participating in the Galaxy Zoo project have been helping scientists gain new insights by classifying galaxies seen in hundreds of thousands of telescope images as spiral or elliptical. Along[Read More…]

  EU–(ENEWSPF)–11 September 2012. ESA’s CAVES training programme began its second phase last Friday as six astronauts ventured into the Sardinian caves in Italy that are their home this week. CAVES mimics elements of spaceflight to prepare astronauts and trainers for the real thing.   Spending time underground might not be the[Read More…]