Oil Spill? There's an app for that.

Wednesday 28th of July 2010 09:56:20 AM
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Created by a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the MoGO app allows you to take and submit photos of oiled, injured and dead marine and coastal wildlife; tar balls on beaches; oil slicks on water; and oiled coastal habitats, and connects you with the Wildlife Hotline so wildlife experts can find and rescue oiled and injured animals.

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UMass Sustainable Move-Out

Wednesday 28th of July 2010 09:56:20 AM
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AMHERST, Mass. (WGGB) - The hours or studying for finals are over, the grades are in and the students are gone for the summer. The mass exodus is routine for the University of Massachusetts, but this year students left campus a little greener.

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Another Potential Pathway to Biomass-Derived Gasoline

Wednesday 28th of July 2010 09:56:20 AM
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Dr. George Huber, have selectively tuned the chemistry of their aqueous phase hydrodeoxygenation (APHDO) process of biomass to make biogasoline with about 70% carbon yield.

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Photosynthesis-like method leads to efficient solar producti

Wednesday 28th of July 2010 09:56:20 AM
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Chemists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a new method based on plant photosynthesis that will usher a more efficient production of solar electric power.

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t r u t h o u t | Meet the Toxic 100 Corporate Air Polluters

Wednesday 28th of July 2010 09:56:20 AM
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Michael Ash and James K. Boyce, Political Economy Research Institute: "Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters, an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the United States."

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Our planet does not have a nuclear reactor at its core

Wednesday 28th of July 2010 09:56:20 AM
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(Read end) (PhysOrg.com) -- Using a delicate instrument located under a mountain in central Italy, two University of Massachusetts Amherst physicists are measuring some of the faintest and rarest particles ever detected, geo-neutrinos, with the greatest precision yet achieved. The data reveal, for the first time, ...

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