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Recreation center at Northern Kentucky University gets LEED Gold rating

2016-07-13 19:31:00| American School & University

University renovated and doubled the size of its recreation space. read more

The Ocean Could Be the New Gold Rush

2016-07-13 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: As the future of seafloor mining is debated this week, here are five things you need to know about the risks and rewards of extracting precious metals and minerals from the ocean. Remotely operated vehicles are used to explore deep-sea sites for possible future mining. But what are the long-term impacts? The bottom of the world's ocean contains vast supplies of precious metals and other resources, including gold, diamonds, and cobalt. Now, as the first deep-sea mining project ramps up, nations...

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Global gold lust driving rise in mining emissions

2016-07-12 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Lure of mining for precious metals in South America and Europe is creating new carbon emissions not controlled by international agreement Fimiston Open Pit, known as the Super Pit, is Australia's largest open air gold mine The collapse of the Soviet Union left Bulgaria achieving in the 1990s what the rest of the world is working hard to manage in the 2020s, a reduction in its carbon dioxide emissions of more than 45%. But while a lot of inefficient mines and smelting plants have closed,...

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