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Apr 14, 2014

UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate

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On the heels of a study that concluded there was  less than a 1% chance  that current global warming could be simple fluctuations, U.N. scie...

H5N1 Bird Flu Needs Just 5 Mutations to Spread Easily in People with a 60% kill rate

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Los Angeles Times :  It's a flu virus so deadly that scientists once halted research on the disease because governments feared it might ...
Apr 13, 2014

Peak Energy: Leggett:"global market shock" from "oil crash" could hit in 2015

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The Guardian has an article on Jeremy Leggett's new book " The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance "...

China Drills Into The "Roof Of The World" To Alleviate Foreign Oil & Resource Dependence

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Zero Hedge:  From copper to iron to oil, China is the world's leading importer of almost every raw mineral. Wary of the risks this depen...

More Americans Go Hungry Than All But 2 European Nations | via @ZeroHedge / @economistniraj

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SOURCE:  ZERO HEDGE Since 2007, when the financial crisis touched down across the world, the proportion of people going hungry in Europe has...

Racing To Contain Ebola, one of the most deadly diseases known to humans, started killing people in Guinea a few months ago.

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Ebola, one of the most deadly diseases known to humans, started killing people in Guinea a few months ago. There have been Ebola outbreaks i...

Honey is a new approach to fighting antibiotic resistance: How sweet it is!

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DALLAS, March 16, 2014 — Honey, that delectable condiment for breads and fruits, could be one sweet solution to the serious, ever-growing pr...
Apr 12, 2014

Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food will introduce greater sustainability into a growth industry

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A team of CSIRO scientists has discovered the holy grail of aquaculture by developing the  world's first fish-free prawn food : Novaq. A...
Apr 11, 2014

James River Coal Co. files for bankruptcy, blaming weak economy and environmental regulations

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" James River Coal Co.  said Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of its efforts to turn around its bu...

Most Endangered American Rivers 2014

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Most Endangered Rivers | American Rivers WASHINGTON - April 9 - American Rivers today announced its annual list of America's Most Endang...
Apr 10, 2014

Deadly bat disease found in Wisconsin, Michigan: wildlife officials

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Reuters: Bats in Wisconsin and Michigan have been infected with a disease that has killed millions of the mosquito-eating mammals elsewhere ...

Panasonic's HIT solar cell hits record 25.6 percent conversion efficiency using solar cells of a "practical size."

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Panasonic is reporting a 25.6 percent conversion efficiency for its HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin layer) solar cells. This is an i...

Israeli company develops anti-radiation belt to protect from up to 1,000 rads in nuclear disaster

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A body belt that protects people from the worst effects of gamma radiation has been developed by an Israeli company called Stemrad. The devi...
Apr 9, 2014

China's Smog Splits Expatriate Families as Companies Pay for Fresh Air - Bloomberg

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Bloomberg, April 7, 2014:  As a thick smog hung over Beijing last year, Stephanie Giambruno and her husband decided it was time for her and ...

CRS — EPA and the Army Corps’ Proposed Rule to Define “Waters of the United States”

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EPA and the Army Corps' Proposed Rule to Define "Waters of the United States" (PDF) Source: Congressional Research Service (vi...

Plato Philosophy in the Googleplex: technology has democratized information....and that is very dangerous for democracy,'

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Philosophy -  "Dr. Goldstein's Plato starts his tour at Google because she thinks that tech entrepre...

A List of the Problems with plastic via @Ecowatch #nontoxic

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Ecowatch :  In the Los Angeles area alone, 10 metric tons of plastic fragments —like grocery bags, straws and soda bottles—are carried into ...

dredmorbius comment on "Navy lab makes gasoline from seawater, as low as $3 per gallon"

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dredmorbius:  Since this story is making rounds but the reportage is so godawful terrible, I've  dug into the source Naval Research Lab ...
Apr 8, 2014

U.S. Navy Scaling Up Fuel from Seawater Program. developed for the recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from seawater and conversion to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel.

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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory  :  Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, ...
Apr 6, 2014

Wind Power Can Be Cost-Comparable to natural gas for electricity , New Analysis Reveals

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Syracuse University  |  The costs of using wind energy and natural gas for electricity are virtually equal when accounting for the full priv...

Under Revised Quake Estimates, Dozens of Nuclear Reactors Face Problems, cannot show that their reactors would withstand the most severe earthquake

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Owners of at least two dozen nuclear reactors across the United States, including the operator of Indian Point 2, in Buchanan, N.Y., have to...
Apr 5, 2014

29 dead dolphins found since oil spill

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Houston Chronicle  - Scientists are trying to determine whether an oil spill two weeks ago in Galveston Bay contributed to a higher-than-nor...

Crib mattresses expose infants to harmful #chemical emissions #nontoxic

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University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering has found that crib mattresses expose sleeping infants to high levels of ...

Bananageddon: Millions face hunger as deadly fungus Panama disease decimates global banana crop

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The Independent   |  Scientists have warned that the world's banana crop, worth £26 billion and a crucial part of the diet of more than ...
Apr 4, 2014

OSHA forms alliance to reduce chemical hazards,such as formaldehyde, in beauty industry

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US Department of Labor's OSHA forms alliance with Concerned Beauty Professionals to reduce chemical hazards in the beauty industry A...

Cheaper process could slash the cost of turning plant biomass into biofuels.

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Wood is great for building and heating homes, but it's the bane of biofuels. When converting plants to fuels, engineers must remove a ke...

Fascinating technology for low cost/sustainable buildings..and it looks "futuristic" too.

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Monolithic Domes, for personal and public use, that are disaster-resistant, energy-efficient and cost-effective. Monolithic Domes are the mo...
Apr 3, 2014

DualWingGenerator mimics flapping wings to harvest energy

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Back in 2011, Festo created a natural-flight mimicking bionic seagull with flapping wings dubbed SmartBird . The company is now looking to...

Vermont Nuclear Plant Seeks Decommission But Lacks Funds

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"On Friday, the Vermont Public Service Board voted to authorize Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., the operators of the Vermont Yankee e...
Apr 2, 2014

One third of Texas running on wind power

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On Wednesday, March 27th, the largest state in the contiguous United States got almost one-third of its electricity  by harnessing the wind ...

Study: Gen X has health problems sooner than Boomers, developing obesity and related chronic health conditions earlier in life

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Science 2.0 -  University of Adelaide researchers compared the health status of their range of Baby Boomers (born from 1946–1965) and Genera...
Apr 1, 2014

Seattle's first Passive House "could be heated with a hairdryer"

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Well, it could theoretically be heated by a hairdryer, at least. While that attention-grabbing headline needn't be taken too literally ...

Israeli solar plant is now 100 percent self-cleaning [feedly]

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The dusty desert environments where many solar plants are located can make their photovoltaic arrays dirty and reduce their effectiveness. C...

Bacteria brews biofuel with potential to replace high-energy rocket fuel

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the US Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacteri...

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Country of Origin Meat Labels via @EcoWatch

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Eco Watch -  A federal appeals court ruled in favor of allowing labels on meat products that say where animals were born, raised and slaught...