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Topping up at the petrol pump is about to take an intriguing twist thanks to a new super biofuel made from whisky by-products. Edinburgh Napier University has filed a patent for the new biofuel, which can be used in ordinary cars without any special adaptions. The innovative fuel process has ... — full article at napier.ac.uk

By-products from distilling process could be used to power cars and even aviation, according to researchers in Edinburgh It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "one for the road". Whisky, the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, is being used to develop a new biofuel which could be ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

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Seems that there's some excitement about a new paper A Statistical Analysis of Multiple Temperature Proxies: Are Reconstructions of Surface Temperatures Over the Last 1000 Years Reliable? to be published in Annals of Applied Statistics . Their reconstruction appears to be closest match to a ... — full article at scienceblogs.com

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President Dmitry Medvedev orders immediate inquiry into potential destruction of world's oldest seed bank • Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has ordered an immediate inquiry into the potential destruction of the world's oldest seed bank following a ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

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Workers use shovels and rakes to look for tarballs in the surf in mid-August in Longbeach, Miss. — full article at time.com

Project could power Rwanda for decades, while reducing risk of disaster for two million people living alongside 'exploding lake' It's dusk on Lake Kivu and the fishermen sing while paddling out in their catamarans, three canoes secured together with long wooden poles. As the twin volcanoes on ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

sierraclub.org - sierra magazine - september/october 2010 - quantifying 'cool' COOL SCHOOLS | Quantifying "Cool" How (and why) we came up with our list of America's greenest campuses Intercollegiate rivalry is a long and hallowed tradition. That was the operating premise, anyway, behind our ... — full article at sierraclub.org

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The experimental pavilion BOXEL was designed and realized by students of the architecture department during the last summer semester on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences in Detmold. The expressive design by Henri Schweynoch, which succeeded in… — full article at archdaily.com

Leading scientists say meat grown in vats may be necessary to feed 9 billion people expected to be alive by middle of century Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

Exclusive: Government's decision to put pollution standards 'on hold' raises possibility of dirtiest coal plants going ahead The coalition is watering down a commitment to tough new environmental emissions standards, raising the possibility of dirty coal-fired power stations such as ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

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We’ve known for a while that we are poisoning the oceans and that human emissions of carbon dioxide, left unchecked, would likely have devastating consequences. A 2010 study found that oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine ... — full article at climateprogress.org

We’ve known for a while that we are poisoning the oceans and that human emissions of carbon dioxide, left unchecked, would likely have devastating consequences. A 2010 study found that oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine ... — full article at climateprogress.org