The oil palm tree is among the plants that make the most oil humans can use. One acre of land, which is almost the size of a football field, planted with oil palm trees car produce almost 7 tons of oil. 3Palm oil is being used to make common things you find in your house. Often...
At Rayonier, we’re proud to continuously seek more ways to be part of the solution. Through the land-based solutions we work with stakeholders to deliver, as well as our timber business’s climate-smart forest management, we can play an important role in advancing the transition to a low...
The Waymo project is an example of a self-driving car that's almost entirely autonomous. It still requires a human driver to be present, but only to override the system when necessary. It isn't self-driving in the purest sense, but it can drive itself in ideal conditions and has a hig...
Identifying adaptation and mitigation measures that the world’s 510 million smallholder farmers can adopt is critical to the protection and support of their livelihoods in the face of climate-related hazards.3 They are also key to global food security. Smallholder farms produce a third of the ...
In reviewing both the literature and trajectory of the field, research priorities can be identified and utilised to facilitate fundamental research alongside whole systems evaluation. Moreover, this would underpin the enhancement of photocatalytic technology with a view towards improving the technology ...
“When you start talking about needing billions of dollars, you have to try every avenue you can,” Dean said. The exact cost of the switch on egg producers is hard to estimate, in part because some updating of buildings and equipment is done periodically anyway. The cost to people at gr...
An acre is a unit used to measure an area of land in US customary systems. It can be expressed in any other units like square yard, square meter, etc. but the most commonly used units are square feet as 1 acre is exactly equal to 43,560 sq. ft. To ...
ETFs also have one of the key benefits of stock in that they can be traded throughout the day anytime the exchanges are open. If you decide you want to buy or sell shares of an ETF, you don’t have to wait until the end of the day. You can complete the transaction immediately. ...
It was created by a group of local Mid-coast Mainers who decided to save this 148-acre parcel of land from development. They put up their own houses as collateral, and now the garden gets over 300,000 visitors a year from all over the world. ...
2016 is going to be a roller coaster of a year in which we will present a totally new way of using glass, it will be amazing; a year of working in new countries and cultures, the fantastic privilege of the global nomads that architects can be. A year of new collaborations, interdiscipl...