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By Robin Lloyd Researchers in Texas are making car parts out of coconuts. A team at Baylor University there has made trunk liners, floorboards and car-door interior covers using fibers from the outer husks of coconuts, replacing the synthetic polyester fibers typically used in composite materials. The approach has potential because coconuts are an abundant, renewable resource in [...] By Robert Roy Britt he stage has been set for the imminent death of the incandescent light bulb in Europe. The United States is not far behind. Not everyone is thrilled, however. Here’s the latest in [...] Wildlife experts in California, US, are concerned about a mysterious illness affecting brown pelicans from San Diego to San Francisco. Dozens of the birds – bruised and disoriented – have been landing on highways, airport runways, farm fields and house backyards. TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said Wednesday, hoping the data it collects helps global efforts to combat climate change. By MARY ESCH, Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. – New York environmental regulators adopted stricter air pollution rules on Tuesday to prevent power plants and factories from belching out more smog and soot. A yellow robot submarine will dive under an ice shelf in Antarctica to seek clues to world ocean level rises in one of the most inaccessible places on earth, reports our environment correspondent Alister Doyle. You can see his story here. The 7-meter (22 ft) submarine, to be launched from a U.S. research vessel, will probe [...] |
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