AIR - Air pollution 'kills 7m people a year'
WHO report says issue is now biggest single environmental health risk and the cause of one in eight deaths worldwideAir pollution kills about seven million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a report from the World Health Organisation published on Tuesday.The agency said air pollution causes about one in eight deaths and has now become the single biggest environmental h ...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/air-pollu
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AIR - WHO: air pollution 'is single biggest environmental health risk'
New figures link indoor and outdoor air pollution to around 7 millon deaths a year – more than double previous estimatesAir pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million – or nearly one in eight deaths in 2012 – according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) .. ...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/air-pollu
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ANIMALS - Canal between ears helps alligators pinpoint sound
Alligators can accurately pinpoint the source of sounds. But it wasn't clear exactly how they did it because they lack external auditory structures. A new study shows that the alligator's ear is strongly directional because of large, air-filled channels connecting the two middle ears. This configuration is similar in birds, which have an interaural canal that increases directionality .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-canal-ears-alligators.htm
ANIMALS - Goats are far more clever than previously thought, and have an excellent memory
Goats learn how to solve complicated tasks quickly and can recall how to perform them for at least 10 months, which might explain their remarkable ability to adapt to harsh environments, say researchers. The goats' ability to remember the task was tested after one month and again at 10 months. They learned the task within 12 trials and took less than two minutes to remember the challenge .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140326092629.ht
BIRDS - Top British garden birds revealed
Top British garden birds reveale .. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/2673759
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Sheltered in the Heart
Gunilla Norris on how deep friends draw out our inner music .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness
Rami Shapiro's visualization exercises on lovingkindness .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
BOOKS - Book: The Dyslexia Debate
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email .. ...
http://news.yale.edu/2014/03/25/book-dyslexia-debat
CLIMATE - Is a Carbon Tax a Good Idea? Just Ask British Columbia
Climate Desk Live partners with Climate Access and Bloomberg BNA to explore what may be the most innovative climate policy in North America: the BC carbon tax.English Bay, Vancouver. JamesZ_Flickr/Wikimedia Commons In the US context, the idea of putting a tax on carbon is going nowhere fast. While the policy has been championed by liberal legislators and by a few conservative apostates, like former South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis, mainstream Repub ...
EDUCATION - Real learning without school
Whether you love or hate 'school', we are naturally born as learners. Does school really help .. ...
http://www.good.is/posts/real-learning-without-schoo
ENERGY - Ecotricity Extending Energy Price Freeze Until October — Longest Period Of Price Stability In Entire Energy Industry
The UK’s reigning green energy company, Ecotricity, recently announced that it will be extending its energy price freeze for all customers yet again (following one announced in October).This new price freeze goes until October 1st, making for a total of 21 months with no changes in pricing — impressively, that’s the longest such period of price stability in the whole of the energy industry.According to the company, the reasons for the freez .. ...
ENERGY - Which is greener, a gas or an electric stove?
After taking another look at this topic, I have had to change my tune, and perhaps my stove .. ...
GARDENS - The Concept of Vertical Farming
The key to vertical farming is space. The Vertical Farm Project, led by Dr. Despommier, claims that one indoor acre of farming is equal to 4 to 6 outdoor acres. They cite a farm in Florida that was converted into an indoor hydroponic farm where strawberries grow in stacks. That farm now grows the equivalent of 30 acres of strawberries in a one-acre greenhouse .. ...
http://www.good.is/posts/the-concept-of-vertical-farmin
MOVIES - Feature Film Review: Youth
A sign-of-the-times movie about two desperate brothers in modern day Israel who kidnap a rich girl in a desperate attempt to get some economic equity .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=26
PLANTS - Sugar, not oil: New possibilities for isobutene from wood sugar
No more oil – renewable raw materials are the future. This motto not only applies to biodiesel, but also to isobutene, a basic product used in the chemical industry. In a pilot plant researchers now want to obtain isobutene from sugar instead of oil for the first time. And in order not to threaten food supplies, in the long term the sugar should come from wood or straw and not from sugar beet .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140325094816.ht
PLANTS - Understanding plant-soil interaction could lead to new ways to combat weeds
Using high-powered DNA-based tools, a recent study identified soil microbes that negatively affect ragweed and provided a new understanding of the complex relationships going on beneath the soil surface between plants and microorganisms. The study allowed researchers to observe how three generations of ragweed and sunflower interacted with the microbial community in the soil. The plants interact with each other indirectly due to the differing eff ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140325133548.ht
SCIENCE - How a 50-Cent Paper Microscope Could Save Millions of Lives
Imagine if clinics in developing countries were equipped with an inexpensive yet durable tool that could help medical personnel identify and diagnose a variety of deadly diseases like Malaria, Chagas disease, or Leishmaniosis. Stanford professor Manu Prakash and his students have developed a virtually indestructible, super cheap, paper microscope and it may just be the ticket to saving a few millions lives .. ...
http://www.good.is/posts/how-a-50-cent-paper-microscope-coul
SPACE - Asteroid Found to Have a Ring On It
Cariklo is the first body after the giant planets found to harbor a ring system-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-found-to-
SPACE - Europe begins Mars site selection
The European Space Agency has published the “longlist” of eight sites it is considering as a destination to land the ExoMars rover in 2019 .. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26743089#sa-ns
SPACE - The search for seeds of black holes
How do you grow a supermassive black hole that is a million to a billion times the mass of our sun? Astronomers do not know the answer, but a new study using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has turned up what might be the cosmic seeds from which a black hole will sprout. The results are helping scientists piece together the evolution of supermassive black holes -- powerful objects that dominate the hearts of all gal ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140326170320.ht
SUSTAINABILITY - How food waste can feed the hungry, train the jobless and fight loneliness too
One UK charity has developed a tasty model for tackling several social problems at once .. ...
URBAN - Cute cabin is made out of old grain silo
Others break down silos; these guys move into one .. ...
WIND - The Spanish Wind Energy Industry Launches a Campaign to Blow Away Wind Energy Myths
The Spanish wind energy industry, through the Spanish Wind Energy Business Association (AEE) – of which ACCIONA is a member – has launched the Act on Facts campaign in the framework of the EWEA 2014 Wind Energy Conference held this week at the Barcelona Trade Fair. Luis Polo, managing director of the Spanish Wind Energy.. .. ...
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