Marrakesh, Morocco (AFP) Nov 15, 2016 -
The UN urged rich nations Tuesday to ramp up financial aid to help poor countries shore up their defences against climate change.
Finance is a hot-button topic at the annual round of UN climate talks underway in Marrakesh, Morocco - the first since the world's nations adopted a hard-fought agreement last year to rein in global warming from fossil fuels.
Rich nations pledged back in 2009 ...
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Marrakesh, Morocco (AFP) Nov 15, 2016 -
Donald Trump's election loomed large over climate talks on Tuesday where UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged nations to redouble their planet-rescue efforts and voiced hope the US would not pull out of its commitments.
Elected to the White House a week ago, Trump has called global warming a "hoax" perpetrated by China and threatened to "cancel" the hard-fought Paris Agreement concluded a year ago. ...
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Stanford CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2016 -
Many communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells, in part because the hydrogen infrastructure provides few additional energy benefits for the community besides clean transportation. That's according to a study in the November issue of the journal Energy by scientists at Stanford University and the Technical University of Mun ...
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Raleigh, NC (SPX) Nov 18, 2016 -
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a combination of software and hardware that will allow them to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large, unfamiliar areas - such as collapsed buildings after a disaster.
"The idea would be to release a swarm of sensor-equipped biobots - such as remotely controlled cockroaches - into a coll ...
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 18, 2016 -
A sister species of the Varroa destructor mite is developing the ability to parasitize European honeybees, threatening pollinators already hard pressed by pesticides, nutritional deficiencies and disease, a Purdue University study says.
Researchers found that some populations of Varroa jacobsoni mites are shifting from feeding and reproducing on Asian honeybees, their preferred host, to Eu ...
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 18, 2016 -
A sister species of the Varroa destructor mite is developing the ability to parasitize European honeybees, threatening pollinators already hard pressed by pesticides, nutritional deficiencies and disease, a Purdue University study says.
Researchers found that some populations of Varroa jacobsoni mites are shifting from feeding and reproducing on Asian honeybees, their preferred host, to Eu ...
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Tech would use drones and insect biobots to map disaster areas
Raleigh, NC (SPX) Nov 18, 2016 -
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a combination of software and hardware that will allow them to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large, unfamiliar areas - such as collapsed buildings after a disaster.
"The idea would be to release a swarm of sensor-equipped biobots - such as remotely controlled cockroaches - into a coll ...
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Tokyo, Japan (JPN) Nov 17, 2016 -
Thanks to internet-of-things (IoT) technology, the venerable safety whistle has just gotten an upgrade. And this version barely needs a breath to sound the alarm.
Engineers at Taipei (Taiwan) headquartered theWISO.com have developed the eponymous WISO smart whistle, touted as the world's first Bluetooth-connected device of its kind. Scarcely larger than a conventional air-driven whistle, t ...
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