Ultimos Posts 1. 27/10/2009 08:12 - How to conserve water- the elixir of life In the mid 1970s each person used 110 liters of water a day. Today that figure has risen to 150 liters, and if current trends continue, in 20 year's time we could all be using around 25% more water than we do now. If you wanted to picture an average household's water being delivered to their home, you'd be looking at a doorstep with a liter of 600 or so milk bottles trailing down t... 2. 27/08/2009 00:35 - Tobacco accounts for 6 million deaths worldwide next year The new Tobacco Atlas from the World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society estimates that tobacco use costs the global economy $500 billion a year in direct medical expenses, lost productivity and environmental harm. "Tobacco's total economic costs reduce national wealth in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) by as much as 3.6 percent," the report reads. "Tobacco accoun... 3. 22/08/2009 02:35 - Chrysanthemum wine The chrysanthemum is a plant often used as a Chinese herbal medicine. People in ancient times believed that, in addition to detoxifications, chrysanthemum could drive away evil spirits and prevent one from getting a chill in late autumn. So, making and drinking chrysanthemum could be traced back many centuries and it became the traditional food on Double Ninth Festival, to avoid ev... 4. 12/08/2009 07:51 - Scientific reasons to study about climatic change at high latitude. ? Ice (including snow) is the predominant form of condensed water most of the year, both in the air and on the surface. Ice and snow scatter, transmit, and absorb sunlight and radiant heat much differently than water ? There is very little water vapor in the atmosphere, changing the impact of the atmosphere on the propagation of radiant energy, particularly radiant energy propagati... 5. 10/08/2009 01:15 - Over the top with green roof research in denver While the city of Denver, Colorado is famous for its mile-high elevation, employees working in EPA's regional headquarters there are thinking slightly higher. The office building they occupy downtown is topped with a "green roof," some 40,000 plants growing in a network of two-foot by four-foot modular trays. The roof is the focus of a collaborative research project exploring the p... | Estadisticas Ver Codigo HTML Posicion del Blog en Nuestro Ranking Hits Semanales Hits Mensuales |