Posts Tagged ‘environment’

London, Apr 7 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that Britons use 13,000 carrier bags in their lifetime. The research conducted by British government has revealed that an average consumer uses more than 160 new plastic bags a year. Last year, the shopoholics were given 9.9 billion bags - enough to fill 188 Olympic-size swimming pools. "We simply can't continue. It's such ... Full story

London, April 6 (ANI): A team of scientists has discovered a new bacterium that feeds on electricity and uses it to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane, which could then be stored and burned when needed. According to a report in New Scientist, Bruce Logan's team at Pennsylvania State University in University Park discovered the bacterium. When living on the cathode of an electrolytic cell, the organism ... Full story

Washington - The United States will push for more restrictions on tourism to the North and South Poles to protect the regions' natural environment, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. Opening a nearly two-week summit bringing together the two diplomatic bodies that govern the Arctic and Antarctic, Clinton warned that protecting the region was crucial for reducing global climate change. "Strengthening environmental regulation is ... Full story

Motilal Oswal Financial Services, one of India's leading stockbroking and research firm, has come out with earnings estimates on FMCG sector for the quarter ended March 2009. The company in its latest research report revealed that Nestle's March quarter sales are expected to go up by 18.7% to Rs 1295.4 crore on Y-o-Y basis. In addition, Motilal Oswal predicated Nestle's net profit to go up by 18.5% ... Full story

Washington, Apr 1 (ANI): Oprah Winfrey is 'disappointed' as her all-girls boarding school in South Africa has been hit by a second sex scandal since opening two years ago. According to the Afrikaans on Sunday newspaper, seven students at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy School for Girls near Johannesburg were suspended last week for sexually harassing their schoolmates. The paper reports that one 15-year-old 'preyed' another student ... Full story

London, Apr 1 (ANI): There's a genetic link to the age at which a person loses his or her virginity, says a new study. And the correlation can be explained by inherited behavioural traits such as impulsivity could help determine when people first have sex. "It's not like there's a gene for having a sex at a certain date," New Scientist quoted says Nancy Segal, a psychologist ... Full story

Washington, Apr 1 (ANI): Men who wish to stay healthy in every respect, and aspire for a disease free atmosphere, Chicago is the ideal city to live in, according to a new list. Barack Obama's home city headed the list of Top 29 cities for men around the world, reports Fox News. Spanish city Barcelona came at the second spot, while San Francisco took the third position ... Full story

Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Scientists at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute have developed a new tool to combat hospital-acquired infections- antibacterial coating that is activated by light. The research team, led by Zoie Aiken, have tested the new coating with antibacterial properties, and found that it could kill 99.9 percent of Escherichia coli bacteria when a white hospital light was shone on its surface to activate ... Full story

London, Mar 31 (ANI): For women who think being slim makes you look younger, a new study has found that people over 40 look younger if they have fatter face. During the study, the researchers compared 186 pairs of identical twins, and found shedding pounds could age a woman by an average of four years. Lead researcher Dr Bahaman Guyuron says: "The perceived age of an individual ... Full story

New Delhi/Pune, Mar 31 (ANI/Business Wire India): Suzlon Energy Limited, the world's fifth leading wind turbine maker, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TERI University for setting up and offering an MTech Programme in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management. This MoU will facilitate Suzlon Energy to contribute to the Programme through exchange of ideas and expertise, and guest faculty. Since its inception in 1999, ... Full story

Mumbai, Mar 30 (ANI): Actor-turned- politician Govinda on Monday announced that he would not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, as the environment in the party was not conducive to his contesting the polls. "There are a lot of things that are not shown clearly in politics. ... Full story

Washington, March 30 (ANI): A team of researchers from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, has developed a new, environmentally friendly coating with the help of bacteria, which protects metals against corrosion in seawater. Researcher Jeanette Gittens and colleagues have described how they had encapsulated spores s from a bacterium into a sol-gel coating, which then protected an aluminium alloy from microbial corrosion. Microbially-influenced corrosion (MIC) of metals at ... Full story

Washington, March 30 (ANI): In a new study, researchers from University College Dublin have achieved a reduction in the amount of methane released by cattle, by including 2 percent fish oil in the diet of the animals. The benefits to animals of omega 3 fatty acids in fish oils have been well documented - helping the heart and circulatory system, improving meat quality and reducing methane ... Full story

London, March 30 (ANI): Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, High School Musical 3, claimed victory at the 22nd Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles. A new record was set when more than 90 million voted online to choose winners for the event, which honours the year's biggest television, movie, and music acts, on March 28. While Cyrus choked up ... Full story

Washington, Mar.29 (ANI): US First Lady Michelle Obama has spent the past month travelling to North Carolina to rally military families, standing next to Hillary Clinton to encourage women to get politically active, showing up at a home-building site on the National Mall, visiting a District of Columbia school to talk up good grades and shovelling dirt for a "kitchen garden" at the White House. ... Full story

Washington, Mar 29 (ANI): Drug-eluting stents are much safer and superior to bare metal stents in preventing death and heart attacks among cardiac patients, according to researchers from Duke University Medical Center. For their study, the researchers tested drug-eluting stents among 262,700 "real-world" patients enrolled in a nationwide registry of cardiovascular disease. The study is the largest of its kind to date, and may finally put an ... Full story

Moradabad, Mar 29 (ANI): Chemical substances used in making brass items in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh for exports have now come under the scanner of the European Union's new regulatory framework on safe management of chemicals. The brass industry of Moradabad, which is already handicapped with business, going down by almost 60 per cent due to ongoing global recessionary trends, has to cope with new regulations. ... Full story

Melbourne, Mar 27 (ANI): Dutch researchers have invented a TummyTub to give babies the feeling that they are in the womb, while they can simultaneously view their surroundings. The tubs or buckets have gotten the approval of doctors, midwives, health visitors, and maternity hospitals across Europe, as they make bath time enjoyable. "It helps to ease the transition from the comfort of the mothers' womb," News.com.au quoted ... Full story

Washington, Mar 27 (ANI): Parkinson's disease patients can improve their postural stability by directing their attention to the external effects of their movements, instead of focussing on movements of their own body, according to a new study. Adults with Parkinson disease are at greater risk for posture and balance impairments, which may lead to falls and resultant ... Full story

Washington, Mar 27 (ANI): Forget about plugging your iPod or BlackBerry into a power source ever again, for now you can charge these devices just by waving your hand, or stretching your arm, and even by taking a walk. Scientists at Georgia have now come up with a new technology, called "nanogenerator", that converts mechanical energy from body movements or even the flow of blood in ... Full story