While the European Union had to soften its "packet-climate" to satisfy all States, the techniques of géo-engineering of climate appear more and more as an appeal to struggle against climatic warming. But in Australia, a report of the co-operative Research centre on Antarctic climate and ecosystem (ACE-CRC) casts doubt on [...]
When the carbon cycle in the oceans is recalled, it is the plankton which immediately comes to mind. But jobs published in Nature on August 27th suggest that the role of viruses was amply under estimating. Having studied 232 samples of sediments gathered in big depth, an international team (Italy, France, the United States) [...]
Many years, the researchers fail to explain all the origins of the methane, a gas with greenhouse effect, which are found in the atmosphere. A new track seems to have been found (1). A team of the University of Hawaii indeed discovered that an oceanic bacterium produces some natural gas in the ocean, which is then liberated [...]
It was known, but he does not feel pain in it to repeat it: the protection of mangrove swamps is necessary to preserve the peach. It is what conclude researchers having studied in detail the Bay of California, in Mexico. They tried to assess the economic value of mangrove swamps, true nurseries with fish. She [...]
A wind this floats tremendously. It is anyway for what hope German Siemens and Norwegian StatoilHydro, that is going to instal a floating turbine, by two hundred metres of bottom, next year, off Norway.
The turbine, of a maximum power of 2,3 megawatts, will be fixed to sixty-five metres above the water on a buoy [...]
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