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Compass Buys Soil Recycling Firm Clean Earth
2014-08-13 15:46:00| Waste Age
Compass Diversified Holdings has acquired soil and dredge recycling firm Clean Earth Inc. read more
Apple's Swift falls back to earth after initial surge
2014-08-12 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Initial enthusiasm for Apple's newly introduced Swift language appears to have died down somewhat, based on two monthly programming
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Why the Earth is farting
2014-08-12 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Every day, you have a close personal encounter with methane, a key ingredient of something we don't usually mention in polite company: farts. Perhaps that's why methane is also called "natural gas." Unfortunately, neither propriety nor intestinal discipline can suppress its unpleasantness lately, because now not just us, but the Earth itself is farting. Recently, three new craters, one of which measured approximately 100 feet wide and over 200 feet deep, were discovered in the Siberian permafrost....
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To the core: How can we travel to the center of the Earth?
2014-08-04 19:24:41| Extremetech
There is an odd dichotomy in human exploration: While we think nothing of going up -- jetting through the skies six miles up, skydiving from the edge of space, or launching humans hundreds or thousands of miles into deep space -- going down has always proven rather difficult. To this day, the deepest humankind has ever gone is just 7.6 miles below our feet. It's not that we don't want to go deeper but, try as we might, despite millennia of developing advanced tools and materials, and exploration that has taken spacecraft to the edge of the Solar System, the subterranean depths remain firmly off-limits. Why?
Can ants save Earth from global warming?
2014-08-03 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Ants may be cooling the Earth by helping trap carbon dioxide from the environment, a new study has claimed. A long-term experiment tracking the ants' effects on soil suggests they cooled Earth's climate as their numbers grew. "Ants are changing the environment," said lead study author Ronald Dorn, from the Arizona State University in Tempe. Certain ant species "weather" minerals in order to secrete calcium carbonate - better known as limestone. The process traps and removes a tiny bit of...
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