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Revolutionary Graphene Filter Could Solve Water Crisis
2016-03-14 03:04:18| pollutiononline Home Page
A new type of graphene-based filter could be the key to managing the global water crisis, a study has revealed. The new graphene filter, which has been developed by Monash University and the University of Kentucky, allows water and other liquids to be filtered nine times faster than the current leading commercial filter.
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Lebanese government approves plan to solve trash crisis
2016-03-12 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Lebanese government on Saturday approved a plan to solve a seven-month garbage crisis that has fueled protests against the dysfunctional state and raised concerns for public health. Two landfills will be established near Beirut, and a third one south of the city will be reopened for two months to receive trash that has piled up since July, Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said after the cabinet meeting. The Lebanese trash crisis began when the landfill south of Beirut was closed with no...
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Watch: Willing to talk to Tatas to solve Singur row, says Mamata Banerjee
2016-03-05 15:22:07| Steel - Topix.net
Widely criticised for taking a hard stand against Tata group regarding the Singur issue, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has indicated softening of stand. She said on Friday that the state govt is willing to talk to the Tata Group, if the company is willing to set up the plant on 600 acres in Singur.
250-year-old research methodology helps solve 21st Century population questions
2016-02-27 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers from the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton and Statistics New Zealand have published an article in the Routledge journal Population Studies arguing that Bayesian methodology, a statistical tool introduced by Rev. Thomas Bayes in the 18th Century, is vital in providing solutions to many difficult statistical problems, particularly those presented by 21st Century population studies. The open access article examines the achievements of Bayesian methodology...
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Phil Knight Wants to Solve Poverty
2016-02-24 19:22:13| Footwear - Topix.net
Philip H. Knight, the co-founder and chairman of Nike Inc., said on Monday that he had pledged to give Stanford University $400 million to recruit graduate students around the globe to address society's most intractable problems, including poverty and climate change. The gift to the new Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, which is modeled on the Rhodes scholarships, matches one of the largest individual donations ever to a university, the $400 million that John A. Paulson, the hedge fund tycoon, gave to Harvard last year to improve its engineering school.
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