Pall hangs over desert's future as alien weeds fuel wildfires

Art hangs as science lure

The culmination of artist Aya Ben Ron's six-month residence at the Wellcome Trust in London has been hanging dramatically in the main atrium of the building throughout the summer. The 25-metre-long " Hanging " glistens with kaleidoscopic, colourful images and patterns but on closer scrutiny holds a darker message. The colourful images are revealed to comprise images of various human diseases an...

Performance of Fuel Treatments Subjected to Wildfires

Fire severity was evaluated in eight recent wildfires with standardized methods in adjacent treated and untreated stands. Sampled sites occurred in a variety of conifer forests throughout the Western United States. Treatments included reduction of surface fuels and crown fuels, both in isolation and in combination. Synthesis of our results indicates that treatment effectiveness is related to di...

Future information environments: deserts, jungles or parks?

Municipal Sewage Sludge to Biodiesel as a Promising Renewable Fuel for the Future of Energy

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Future Aircraft Fuel Efficiencies

A review has been performed of the current method of forecasting CO2 emissions fromaircraft using UK airports. The current approach uses the CORINAIR Guidebook data tocalculate the fuel burn by individual aircraft on each route. The assessment has coveredthe mapping of aircraft types to those in CORINAIR, the accuracy of the data (bycomparison with data from the AERO2k greenhous...