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[Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Yale study: Most polluted ecosystems recoverable | Science Blog: The researchers point out that a potential "pitfall" of the analysis is that the ecosystems may have already been in a disturbed state when they were originally examined. Many ecosystems across the globe that have experienced extinctions and other fundamental changes as a result of human activities, combined with the ongoing effects of climate change and pollution, are far removed from their historical, natural pristine state.

[Latest Biology News from Bio-Medicine.Org] Yale study: Most polluted ecosystems r... ( New Haven Conn.Most ...: The Yale researchers found that forest ecosystems recovered in 42 years on average, while ocean bottoms recovered in less than 10 years. When examined by disturbance type, ecosystems undergoing multiple, interacting disturbances recovered in 56 years, and those affected by either invasive species, mining, oil spills or trawling recovered in as little as five years.

[Duniyalive.com] Most polluted ecosystems recoverable within a lifetime: Washington, May 28 (ANI): An analysis of 240 independent studies by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has revealed that most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide can recover within a lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration.

[On Water] On Water news: 27 May: Yale study: Most polluted ecosystems recoverable EurekAlert (Press Release) / by David DeFusco Shortage of grass worries ranchers Redding Searchlight / by Michael Woodward The Geysers getting credit for a cleaner Russian River .

[Yale Environment 360] A Reality Check on the Pickens Energy Plan by Vaclav Smil: Yale ...: In 2007, U.S. utilities installed about 3,200 turbines with a total generating capacity of 5.24 gigawatts of electricity: If these turbines were to generate electricity 25 percent of the time ”” a typical load factor ”” they would produce enough electricity for about one million households for a year. (The U.S. has more than 110 million households.) But even if today’s natural gas-fired power plant capacity were replaced at an unrealistic 1:1 ratio by wind turbines, Pickens is talking about installing 40 gigawatts of wind power a year ”” roughly 8 times the 2007 pace.

[The Gaea News] Most polluted ecosystems recoverable within a lifetime: WASHINGTON - A team of chemists has designed a new sponge-like material that can remove mercury from polluted water, easily separate hydrogen from other gases and is a more effective catalyst than the one currently used to pull sulfur out of crude oil. Hydrodesulfurization is a widely used catalytic chemical process that removes sulfur from natural gas and refined petroleum products, such as gasoline and diesel and jet fuels.

[EcoTone] EcoTone » Blog Archive » Many disturbed ecosystems recoverable?: On average, forest ecosystems recovered in 42 years, while ocean bottoms recovered in less than 10 years. Ecosystems that were affected by many disturbances at once recovered in 56 years, and, surprisingly, those affected by invasive species, mining, oil spills or trawling recovered in as little as five years.

[Dot Earth] New Portals Exploring How We Survive Ourselves - Dot Earth Blog ...: The challenge for e360, Climate Central, and everyone involved in this enterprise, is to communicate complex information in a way that is engaging, while avoiding the temptation to reduce it to the point where significant details are lost and the ultimate message is obscured or confounded.

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Suicidalism: nobody is interested in talking really hot topics, like that you have alcoholic as president or you are estimated using 250 000 bullets to get one guy down, or that DU might make whole middle-east, including Israel, toxic waste land, or that over half of your veterans are sick beyond repair, or that in case of catastrophe mercenaries are the first one can expect to be there to “help”..)

[NewTalk] Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy ...: A true breakthrough addressing the storage problem, however, would be a world-spanning power grid that would cover for the down times which occur in all places, like solar at night, or the hurricane/monsoon seasons - an equator-spanning global necklace of power: solar, wind, wave etc farms (a solar farm using today's technologies 150 km x 150 km would supply the present US electricity - roughly the size of the Nevada test site), using the solar or wind resources of the driest and hottest and blowingest places between the two tropics parallels (to take advantage of both the northern and southern hemisphere summers), probably based on several lays of parallel/redundant superconducting cables in the longest passages (and obviously with major feeders travelling N/S - perhaps even polar-spanning). The US southwest and Chile, for example, would be supplying China and Australia during their night, etc.

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