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Water Crisis Hasn't Affected Real Estate Market Yet
2014-02-24 09:08:02| Real Estate - Topix.net
Since the water crisis started, we've heard concerns of living in West Virginia and threats of leaving the state, but at least so far, the real estate market isn't seeing that happen.
Thicker Than Water: Medical Researchers Use Light to Quickly and Easily Measure Blood's ...
2014-02-24 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Published in OSA's open-access journal Biomedical Optics Express, "Assessing Blood Coagulation Status with Laser Speckle Rheology" describes optical device that, with few drops of blood and within few minutes, measures key coagulation parameters to provide caregivers with timely information about clotting properties of patient's blood. Senior author Seemantini Nadkarni defined team's goal as to provide lab test information but quickly and at patient's bedside. This story is related to the following:Test and Measuring InstrumentsSearch for suppliers of: Blood Chemistry Analyzers
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Global Warming and Potential Water Contamination Resulting from Fracking for Hydrocarbons: A Relationship?
2014-02-24 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EP Online: Contaminated water, presumed to be from drilling into and fracturing (fracking) hydrocarbon-bearing rock strata, has been in the news for some time now. And so have global warming and air pollution issues associated with transporting and burning fossil fuels. Are these headliners connected? Of course. Before I delve into the issues, be it known that we all use fossil fuels. I don't know of any exception. Here's the basic scenario: find the fossil fuel sources, recover them, and then process, distribute,...
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Can California Avoid a Shock to Trance Approach to Water Policy?
2014-02-23 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Forecasters predict heavy rains will sweep in from the Pacific Ocean over much of California late next week. The states extreme drought will be far from over, but the shift from parched days to downpours illustrates on a short time scale one factor explaining why its hard to change deeply ingrained and wasteful approaches to water policy. The West is a region where droughts come and go, but development pressure is a constant. Years ago, President Obama spoke of the nations shock to trance approach...
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Drought: Feds cut water to Central Valley farmers to zero
2014-02-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Central Valley farmers took a crippling blow Friday when U.S. officials made the unprecedented announcement that they would get no irrigation water from the federal government this year because of the drought. But growers in a region with the country's most productive soil said the loss of one of their chief water supplies won't be their problem alone: Consumers will be hit hard in the form of higher prices at the produce market. California's unusually dry weather is forcing producers of fruits,...
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