Archive for Ecology & Environment
Accidental chemical
The first men made use of nature, using femurs as clubs, stones and shells, and over the millennia learned to carve wood, stone carving, giving them a cutting edge and spinning strings for attaching stick carved stone. The possibility of deliberately benefit of some chemical phenomena became part of reality when, probably by accident, man [...]
Algae-based biofuels and his generation
In the greenway to the fuels derived from biological and non-polluting, more needs to be done. However, some Latin American countries years ago and others more recently have embarked on the highway full of research and studies with a single purpose: to put aside reliance on fossil fuels, which harm the planet given the components [...]
The jatropha plant, the future of biofuels
The jatropha plant emerges as viable alternative to fossil fuels in the medium term, energy and environmental interest. In recent years, advances occur in the field of biofuels, despite the difficult economic situation worldwide. The difficulties of ensuring the financing of certain projects with an interesting long-term returns, failed to stop the interest in developing [...]
Growing demand for biofuels
In 2020 in Italy at the request of biodiesel and bioethanol will be 6 million tons. Germany and France forward in the search for production of biofuels from micro algae. The demand for biodiesel and bioethanol in Italy will be 6 million tonnes in 2020, 12% of the estimated total requirement for the 27 EU [...]
Fluorescent transgenic fish
Biotechnology to serve the business of pets, transgenic fish that glow in the dark. The genetic manipulation competes with the traditional and artificial selection (used for centuries in goldfish) in the development of new varieties of fish, and the last, are the fluorescent fish. Transgenesis had been used so far to create varieties of plants [...]
The spreading of the Drosophila
Like the fruit fly in colonizing Europe has followed the development of agriculture and environmental changes. Up to 10,000 years ago, if you mean the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in Europe or Asia, your search was unsuccessful because until then the species was only found in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, however, the fruit fly is common [...]
