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New Vaccine Could Save Bees from Colony Collapse Disorder

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Posted by geri   
Monday, 10 August 2009

bee-colony.jpg An Israeli company has developed a revolutionary new drug that could solve the problem of Colony Collapse Disorder, the disturbing syndrome that has been wiping out bee communities and threatening agricultural production all over the world.

The drug, Remembee, which was developed by Beeologics, has completed successful clinical trials on millions of bees in North America. Not only has it proved effective in maintaining bee health, but it also improved the longevity of bees and increased the honey in the hives.

Based on Nobel prize-winning RNAI technology, Remembee helps the bees overcome IAVP virus, also discovered in Israel, which has been associated with colony collapse in scientific literature.

"It's really a tug of war between the virus and the host. We are helping the bee tug the rope more strongly and beat the virus. We take advantage of an immune system that the bees elicit for viral disease. But we are really using naturally occurring phenomenon. It's not a pesticide and it's not toxic," says Nitzan Paldi, CTO of Beeologics.

The US Department of Agriculture has been accompanying Beeologics with its FDA certification process due to the urgency of the need for the drug.

Thanks to Israel 21c for the story. Watch their video report below...

Read more... [New Vaccine Could Save Bees from Colony Collapse Disorder]
 

White Roofs to Fight Global Warming

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Posted by geri   
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
white-roof.jpgAmerica should attack global warming by ... painting rooftops and road surfaces white. Seriously. No kidding.

Among those promoting the idea is Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a big-thinking physicist who has a bully pulpit and influence over billions in research and stimulus funds.

Whitening the world's roofs and roads would have the same effect on global warming as removing all the world's cars for 11 years, he said.


So for new buildings, highways and retrofits, choose white!

(Read the story at CNN/Money)
 

Major Breakthrough in Desalination Easily Generates Drinking Water from the Sea

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Posted by Ted Burton   
Tuesday, 14 July 2009

algal_bloom.jpgConcern over access to clean water is no longer just an issue for the developing world, as California faces its worst drought in recorded history with water deficits that can't keep up with population growth.

Researchers at UCLA may have found a way to help alleviate the problem with their new mini-mobile-modular (M3) "smart" water desalination and filtration system.

Though the system is compact enough to be transported anywhere in the back of a van, it can generate 6,000 gallons of drinking water per day from the sea, producing enough for 6,000 or more people.

(Continue reading in today's Science Daily)

 

Sun-powered Device Converts CO2 into Fuel

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Posted by geri   
Saturday, 11 July 2009
cars-driving-at-sunset.jpgPowered only by natural sunlight, an array of nanotubes is able to convert carbon dioxide into natural gas at unprecedented rates.

The device is commercially viable, says Craig Grimes, from Pennsylvania State University, offering a new way to take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into fuel, lessening the amount of fossil fuel emissions that lead to  climate change.

(Continue reading at New Scientist)
 

Ship of Plastic Bottles to Send Eco-message as it Crosses Atlantic

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Posted by geri   
Sunday, 28 June 2009

plastiki-boat.jpgYou've heard of a ship in a bottle. How about a ship made of plastic bottles? That would be the Plastiki, designed to sail the Pacific on an 11,000-mile voyage highlighting the dangers of living in a throwaway world.

The launch date has been moved back to late 2009. 

(Continue Reading AP story at MSNBC)

 
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