Items tagged with “environment”
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“Cooling” Forests Can Heat, Too: The Energy Budget of a Forest Includes Significant Heat Reserves
2010-01-20T21:39:02-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—January 21, 2010—The simple formula we’ve learned in recent years—forests remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmo...
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Cross Flow
2009-05-01T19:05:00-04:00
Cooperation between Israeli and Jordanian scientists is bridging more than one gulf Last spring, a small research boat made an unusual trip—from one side to the other of the northwestern...
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Scientists Reveal Soot's Role in Climate Change
2008-08-14T11:33:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 14, 2008—Tons of soot are released into the air annually as forest fires rage from California to the Amazon to Siberia and Indonesia. Climate scientists have gen...
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Understanding the Climate's Past can Help Predict Its Future
2008-06-01T15:57:00-04:00
From designing environmental policies and preventing ecological disasters to planning umbrella sales and construction projects, a full spectrum of human activities depends on our ability to understand and predict climate c...
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Water: Protection, Modeling, and Management
2008-06-01T15:23:00-04:00
Looking at the blue expanses wrapping the globe, one can hardly imagine that a planet covered mostly by water could experience water shortages. Yet 97 percent of Earth’s water is too salty for drinking or irrigation, and...
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Blue Planet
2007-11-01T13:37:00-04:00
Blue Planet, a curriculum package for middle school students on the link between man and the environment, written by Weizmann Institute scientists, has won recognition by UNESCO as a worldwide model in environmental studi...
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Weizmann Institute of Science Curriculum on Environment Recognized by UNESCO
2007-09-17T15:59:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 17, 2007—Blue Planet, a curriculum package for middle school students written by Weizmann Institute scientists on the link between man and the environment, has won recognition...
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Fueling the Future
2007-02-01T09:37:00-04:00
It is time for the world to take alternative fuel sources seriously, say Weizmann Institute scientists. Energy consumption—both in the Western world and especially in newly industrialized countries—is growing so fast t...
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The Health of the Brazilian Rainforest Depends on Dust from One Valley in Africa
2006-12-26T07:45:00-04:00
More than half of the dust needed for fertilizing the Brazilian rainforest is supplied by a valley in northern Chad, according to an international research team headed by Dr. Ilan Koren of the Institute’s Environmental S...
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Everybody Needs a Friend Sometimes
2006-06-01T16:22:00-04:00
A genetically engineered plant recruits "bodyguards" that protect it against its enemies We get by with a little help from our friends—but sometimes this help can come from an unexpected source. That’s...
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Solar-Powered Vision of the Future
2006-02-19T08:13:00-04:00
Sitting in his book-lined office, Professor Jacob Karni likes to quote the French novelist Jules Verne. "Yes, my friends," says Prof Karni, director of the Centre for Energy Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, q...
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Hydrology: Keeping Our Water Clean
2004-06-01T19:26:00-04:00
Hydrologist Brian Berkowitz sees the movement of water through rock formations as a random and jagged path, sometimes virtually stopping, sometimes surging ahead. The description could be aptly applied to his career, which...