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Watch NASA test the worlds largest solid rocket booster today live
2016-06-28 14:32:30| Extremetech
This second test of the Space Launch System's solid rocket booster will cool the unit to its minimum operating temperature, then light it up for a full 2-minute burn that outputs 3.6 million pounds of thrust.
Risks, ethics and consent: Australia shouldnt become worlds nuclear wasteland
2016-06-28 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Last month the South Australian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission recommended that the state government develop a business venture to store a large fraction of the worlds high- and intermediate-level nuclear power station wastes in South Australia. It proposes to do this by first building an interim above-ground store, to be followed by permanent underground repository. But the commissions recommendation is based on several debatable assumptions, including: an economic analysis that purports...
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From fire breaks to fire hazards: Human activity & climate change transforming world's peatlands
2016-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Since the glaciers receded about 12,000 years ago, the humble bog has acted as a storage vault for atmospheric carbon, packed with dead moss and topped by a green layer of living moss that can come back after a burn. The world's bogs hold more carbon than the word's rainforests, and Canada is home to about 185 billion tonnes of increasingly vulnerable peat deposits, ranging from 40 cm to several metres deep. Dried peatlands fuelled a 2011 fire in Slave Lake Alberta, for example, and the recent...
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EU referendum: What next for the world's central banks?
2016-06-24 07:12:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Economic policymakers must now decide whether and how they should respond to the UK's vote to leave the EU.
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Where are the world's next boom markets for drinks? - research
2016-06-23 18:11:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
A number of emerging markets offer "tantalising and lucrative" growth prospects for international beverage businesses, according to a new report from just-drinks.
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