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3-D Printers Are Saving Lives and Serving Pizzas
Biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan have revealed how they used 3-D printing technology to fashion a tiny, custom-made implant that helped save the life of a newborn baby boy.And the Texas-based engineering firm Systems and Materials Research Corporation has just received a $125,000 grant from NASA to develop a printer that can fabricate pizzas for astronauts to eat in ...
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Choose tough trees for tough spots in Wests landscapes
"Sutherland" peashrub has a multi-stem form that works well in a hedge. IPTC: "Sutherland" peashrub has a multi-stem form that works well in a hedge. CREDIT Provided by CSU--> (Provided by Colorado State University) When selecting trees, some homeowners think the sky's the limit. But they eventually discover this isn't the case when their English oaks invade ...
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Advocates Cheer Tightening of Extractives Transparency Standards
- Development groups and corruption watchdogs are applauding landmark new standards adopted Wednesday by an international initiative focused on ensuring greater transparency among oil and mining companies operating particularly in developing ...
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Citi Bikes land in New York what to expect from the long-awaited scheme
New York in the early hours of Friday, greeted with a combination of curiosity, puzzlement, and not a little suspicion.Which is hardly surprising, as it's not been plain cycling so far. Residents of the West Village think the docking stations will destroy the area's historic character. In Brooklyn, treasured parking spots have been usurped. Tabloid columnists fear the city's ...
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Pictures Seven Energy-Smart Zoos and Aquariums
The diverse range of habitats that zoos and aquariums must maintain for their animal denizens creates unique--and sizable--energy demands. Many organizations are now designing these habitats with efficiency in mind. Woodland Park's penguin exhibit, for example, will save 22,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year and some 3 million gallons (11.4 million liters) of water, thanks to ...
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Life Discovered in Earths Coldest Environment Yet
Canadian scientists have discovered microbial life in the north Arctic that can survive temperatures as low as minus 13 degrees F, which is similar to temperatures found on the surface of Mars. ...
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‘Too early’ to speculate on Causeway’s world heritage status
Unesco has said it is too early to say if the Giant’s Causeway’s status as a world heritage site is at risk over a golf course development Environmental groups have been involved in a long-running campaign to prevent a hotel, clubhouse and driving range being built close to the internationally renowned tourist attraction.Planning permission has been granted by Environment Minister ...
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Climate change study with a large side-order of caveats
For anyone who loves to eat chocolate, drink lots of lovely espresso coffee or quaff plentiful amounts of red wine, there's much comfort to be sought from scientific studies.You can pick the studies saying you'll live long and prosper from your chosen potions and ignore the caveats or contradictory warnings. You might also forget to check back to see if any follow-up studies were done ...
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Skywatchers Guide Eye-Catching Triple Planet Huddle in Evening Sky
This weekend, skywatchers around the world will get to see a striking triple planetary meetup in the evening skies the likes of which won't be repeated until ...
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Space Pictures This Week Stellar Dust Bunnies Bat Signal
Pavlof volcano --located about 625 miles (a thousand kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, along the Aleutian Islands--undergoing a massive eruption was captured from the International Space Station (ISS) on May ...
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Why we pedalled on the Scottish parliament
"Big Ride" on parliament just before the mayoral election . It seemed as if cycle campaigning was finally taking off south of the border and cyclists' voices were being heard, while here in Scotland the cycling and walking budget was actually declining despite the government's target of 10% of journeys being undertaken on a bike by 2020.So when David Brennan, a helmet-camera ...
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Panamas indigenous people see Redd over UN forest conservation scheme | Jo Tuckman
A few years ago, Mario Degaiza worked in construction in City, where he learned Spanish and, for a while, was excited by the hustle and the bustle of urban life. But the 36-year-old Embera Indian says he is far happier now he has returned to his home village of Marraganti and the tropical forest that surrounds it."The forest is our mother," he says while tucking into a bowl of rice and ...
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China reports rise in humans encountering wild Siberian tigers
Decades of poaching and logging in China and elsewhere have ravaged the Siberian tiger population, with only about 500 left in the wild worldwide. Photograph: Tim ...
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Have the climate sceptics really won
Lord Lawson, former chancellor of the exchequer and now chairman of climate sceptic thinktank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Photograph: Martin Argles Earlier this week, Martin Wolf of the Financial ...
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Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come
leaving 24 people dead. Each of these one-off traumas was bad enough, wreaking havoc, but in Australia such events seem to be becoming commonplace. The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the ...
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Collective switching can councils help those living in fuel poverty
energy has outpaced the rise in incomes substantially over the last decade, leaving millions struggling to pay back huge arrears on their energy bills. In the last 12 months alone, prices have risen by an average of almost 100.However, thanks to efforts of pioneering councils such ...
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President Xi pledges not to sacrifice environment
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - President Xi Jinping on Friday pledged that China will not sacrifice the environment for temporary economic growth. China will have to carefully balance economic development and environmental protection, Xi said, at a study session with members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. "We have to understand that to ...
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How Polish nuclear boss commemorated Chernobyl nuclear disaster
anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, Aleksander Grad, the nuclear director of Polish utility PGE, sat behind his huge desk in his likewise huge office in Warsaw. What was he doing? Keeping two minutes of silence to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who suffered from the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe? Contemplating how his own nuclear plans could lead to a similar ...
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A year in the life of That Tree
iPhone . A friend challenged him to use the camera feature, and Hirsch decided to spend the next year photographing the bur oak that was such a feature of his daily commute.The result ...
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That Tree an iPhone photo journal – in pictures
Using his iPhone 4S, Mark Hirsch photographed a tree in Platteville, Wisconsin, every day from 24 March 2012 until 23 March 2013, capturing a year-long snapshot of life in and around the ancient ...
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Wenzhou environment chief issues apology
/enpproperty--> The head of the environment department in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province apologized to the policeman who was hospitalized with pneumonia after saving a teenager's life from a polluted river. "I am very sorry for this. And the best way to express apologies is to protect the environment," said Su Zhongjie, the director of the environment protection department in ...
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Cull reminds us that gulls need friends
the report of a large scale annual cull on the Abbeystead grouse moor was something new to me. The targets were not raptors, but lesser black backed gulls. I am afraid one cant resist reflecting on some basic prejudices. Gulls in general seem to be birds that a percentage of the public find it hard to love, accusing them of all sorts of vandalism from pecking toddlers to stealing packed lunches. ...
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Royal family squeeze out climate change in US media coverage
he warned this month that climate change is "the greatest risk we have ever faced" . Action must be taken now, the Prince said, because the risk of doing nothing is "too great."It is therefore a little ironic to look at the latest results from a study by the monitoring organisation Media Matters for America and find that the goings-on of the British royal family - but not ...
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Environment Canada to release predictions for 2013 hurricane season
An Enviroment Canada meteorologist monitors weather at the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Halifax on Thursday, May 19, 2011. (Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN ...
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EAD cracks down on environmental policy violations
The Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD) has revealed that it has cited more than 1,000 violations in the first three months of 2013. The top three most common violations cited by EAD at industrial and developmental projects were: inefficient recordkeeping and staff training; the transfer of hazardous materials and their storage and handling on sites and; safety and emergency response protocols ...
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New construction in tourism industry – signs of recovery or misplaced optimism?
The whole of Central America has been affected by the global downturn. One of the industries effected most has been tourism, and while many construction and expansion projects were planned during the heady days of 2007 and early 2008, the region may now be facing a huge oversupply problem in terms of hotel accommodation, although there are signs of light on the horizon.
In 2006, the Tourism Ministers of various countries in the region came together at San Ramon for a conference and told Central American news providers that the tourism industry for the region as whole had grown by an average of 11%, which account for, on average, 5% of the region’s GDP for that year, in addition, there was astounding growth in the number of European tourists travelling to Central America, a 147% increase in fact. Read more
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