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Our green future’s at risk from shortfall in rare metals - Green Living - Go Green
Wales’ bid to become a leader in low carbon technologies could be at risk unless action is taken to address the shortfall in supply of essential metals, an international conference of scientists in Wales will hear this week. The development of low-carbon transport, wind power and environmentally-friendly technology relies on the availability of “strategic metals”, so called for their importance as well as their restricted supply in the world. Given these metals are distributed unevenly in varying but finite quantities in the earth’s crust, 97% of the world’s rare earth elements (REE) are produced in China, while 80% of the world’s platinum and rhodium used in modern autocatalysts and fuel cells come from a single source in South Africa.
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With 1bn hungry and 1bn obese, what is the future of the world's resources?
The price of food is rising alongside consumer demand, but at what cost to our future? With starving millions sharing the planet with a similar number who are overweight, is there a danger that our food resources will dry up? Every bite we take has consequences. Every mouthful we digest has an impact. Not just on our bodies, but on the planet. Amid fears of shortages, the food we eat can no longer be taken for granted.
Plastic-Eating Fungi Found In The Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem
A group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR). As part of the university’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory educational program, designed to engage undergraduate students in discovery-based research, the group searched for plants and cultured the micro-organisms within their tissue.
Could be hugely significant environmentally, but how real a prospect is there of plastic munching funghi being part of the waste remediation process? Perhaps just too weak a signal - but one to keep watching. by Mar 16
2 March 2012 Last updated at 03:28 ET By Neil Bowdler Science and health reporter, BBC News The prototype uses two separate technologies to generate electricity
US researchers build 'waste water generator'
Reverse electrodialysis allows for the capture of energy from salinity gradients between salt and fresh waters, but potential applications are currently limited to coastal areas and the need for a large number of membrane pairs.
Energy Capture from Thermolytic Solutions in Microbial Reverse-Electrodialysis Cells
Huichol people near Real de Catorce, Mexico, who are trying to stop a $100m mining project by First Majestic Silver Corp. Photograph: Christian Palma/AP The global mining , oil and gas industries have expanded so fast in the last decade they are now leading to large-scale "landgrabbing" and threatening farming and water supplies, according to a report by environment and development groups in Europe, Africa and India.
Global mining boom is leading to landgrab, says report | Environment
A big environmental issue, with a strong future-scenario relevance, but lieing outside the immediate purview of the partnership I guess. by Mar 16
16 February 2012 Last updated at 10:18 GMT