Thursday, January 21, 2010

Himalayan Glaciers are Melting Down

Roof of the world "Himalayan Glaciers"
are Melting Down

Glaciers in Himalayan region are melting down more rapidly than normal rate. As reported in Scientific American
one of the village of Pakistan "Brep" does not exist anymore in the same place where it was.
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted more meltdown in glaciers
in 21st century. All this is considered as consequence of pollution by greenhouse gases like CO2 .

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Sleeping beauty

Sleeping beauty has now been declared molecule of the year 2009 by ISMCBBPR.

International Society for Molecular and Cell Biology and Biotechnology Protocols and Researchers announces sleeping beauty a transposon, 15 molecules were selected for this purpose.
Transposons are sequences of DNA that can move around within genome of a single cell and replicate themselves so they act as molecular parasites in the cell.
Transposons were once called as jumping gene because of their moblity within genome.These molecules can also cause mutation.
Sleeping beauty was the name given to these because they have been awakened after a long evolutionary sleep.


Renewable resource of energy, windmills providing energy more than need
A small island of Denmark is now able to manufacture its own power needs and are able to export 80million kilo-Watt/hour annually. It is 100% renewable, 20 of 21 power units (turbines) are owned by the local inhabitants.
The only draw back complained by the residents is noise pollution but the director of Samso energy Academy Denmark says "If you own a share in a wind turbine it looks better, it sounds better," he says. "It sounds like money in the bank."

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Pollutant greenhouse gas CO2 can now be removed by a copper-complex compound

In and accidental discovery, Bouwman E. & team at Leiden University in the Netherlands, has found a catalytic copper complex compound can remove pollutant greenhouse gas without reacting with atmosopheric oxygen.
Scientists are considering it a faint hope towards pollution free environment.