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Volkswagen boosts Beetle Turbo and Jetta GLI with EA888 Gen 3 engine; more power, improved fuel economy
2013-05-03 17:30:16| Green Car Congress
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Mountain pine beetle genome decoded
2013-03-27 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The genome of the mountain pine beetle -- the insect that has devastated British Columbia's lodgepole pine forests -- has been decoded by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. This is a first for the mountain pine beetle and only the second beetle genome ever sequenced. The first was the red flour beetle, a pest of stored grains. The genome is described in a study published Tuesday in the journal Genome Biology. "We know a lot about...
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Pine beetle spraying workshops planned in South Dakota
2013-03-02 01:04:33| Energy - Topix.net
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service are hosting three pine beetle spraying workshops in the Black Hills over the next few weeks.
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Pine beetle spraying workshops planned in South Dakota
2013-03-01 21:27:20| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service are hosting three pine beetle spraying workshops in the Black Hills over the next few weeks.
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CU-Led Study Shows Pine Beetle Outbreak Buffers Watersheds From Nitrate Pollution
2013-01-16 01:44:45| pollutiononline News Articles
A research team involving several scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder has found an unexpected silver lining in the devastating pine beetle outbreaks ravaging the West: Such events do not harm water quality in adjacent streams as scientists had previously believed.
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