News articles tagged with 'charcoal'
Can charcoal fight heart disease in kidney patients?
— 1 Nov 2009 08:42 | HealthCharcoal may provide a new approach to managing the high rate of heart disease in patients with advanced kidney disease, according to preliminary research being presented at the American... — full story
Grilling with charcoal less climate-friendly than grilling with propane
— 13 May 2009 01:02 | EnvironmentDo biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, finds a paper published today in Elsevier's Environmental Impact Assessment... — full story
New biomass heater: A 'new era' of efficiency and sustainability
— 12 Feb 2009 11:50 | EnvironmentMillions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of... — full story
Charcoal evidence tracks climate changes in Younger Dryas
— 29 Jan 2009 21:52 | EnvironmentA new study reports that charcoal particles left by wildfires in sediments of 35 North American lake beds don't readily support the theory that comets exploding over the continent 12,900... — full story
New World post-pandemic reforestation helped start Little Ice Age
— 19 Dec 2008 12:28 | EnvironmentThe power of viruses is well documented in human history. Swarms of little viral Davids have repeatedly laid low the great Goliaths of human civilisation, most famously in the devastating... — full story
Climate change, human activity and wildfires
— 23 Sep 2008 07:56 | EnvironmentClimate has been implicated by a new study as a major driver of wildfires in the last 2,000 years. But human activities, such as land clearance and fire suppression during the industrial... — full story
Oxygen theory of mass extinction questioned by new research findings
— 8 Sep 2008 12:06 | Geology and palaeontologySeveral theories have been proposed by scientists to explain the two mass extinction events which took place on the earth 250 and 200 million years ago. The Permian-Triassic catastrophe... — full story
'Black gold agriculture' may revolutionise farming
— 11 Apr 2008 13:58 | EnvironmentFifteen hundred years ago, tribes people from the central Amazon basin mixed their soil with charcoal derived from animal bone and tree bark. Today, at the site of this charcoal deposit,... — full story
Ten millionth tree planted in the habitat of gorillas
— 26 Nov 2007 17:00 | EnvironmentWWF and Congolese authorities are celebrating the ten millionth tree planted around Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a crucial habitat for the... — full story
Fire, ice, and invasion
— 15 Nov 2007 11:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe November 2007 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment focuses on palaeoecology, which uses fossilised remains and soil and sediment cores to reconstruct past ecosystems... — full story