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ASV selects Planet Ocean for marine technology solutions
2014-07-31 01:00:00| Ship Technology
UK-based Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) has selected Planet Ocean as its technology partner to provide solutions for marine science applications.
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Heartland Water Crisis: Why the Planet Depends on These Kansas Farmers
2014-07-13 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: In Americas Breadbasket, a battle of ideas is underway on the most fundamental topics of all: food, water, and the future of the planet. Last August, in a still-echoing blockbuster study, Dave Steward, Ph.D., and his colleagues at Kansas State University, informed the $15 billion Kansas agricultural economy that it was on a fast track to oblivion. The reason: The precipitous, calamitous withdrawal rates of the Ogallala Aquifer. The Ogallala is little known outside this part of the world, but its...
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Rupture of Aging Tar Sands Pipeline Beneath Great Lakes Would Devastate People, Planet and Economy
2014-07-11 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Because the strong currents in the Straits of Mackinac reverse direction every few days, a rupture of the oil pipeline beneath the channel would quickly contaminate shorelines miles away in both lakes Michigan and Huron, according to a new University of Michigan (U-M) study commissioned by the National Wildlife Federation. In one scenario examined in the study and accompanying animations, oil from a hypothetical pipeline break reached Mackinac Island and Round Island after 12 hours and Bois Blanc...
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Indonesia is killing the planet for palm oil
2014-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Indonesia is being deforested faster than any other country in the world, and it has everything to do with one product: palm oil. According to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, deforestation in the Southeast Asian archipelago is nearly double the rate in the Amazon. Indonesia is said to have lost 840,000 hectares (3,250 square miles) of forest in 2012 while Brazil -- which has four times Indonesias rainforest -- lost a still-massive 460,000 hectares. The reports authors found...
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Able Planet Linx Fusion
2014-07-02 20:37:38| PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
The Able Planet Linx Fusion headphone pair feels a bit like a science experiment, blending skin- and bone-conduction audio with conventional drivers and noise cancellation, and the results are flawed but fascinating.
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