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Five technologies help thwart illegal logging by tracing woods origin
2016-05-29 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The illegal timber trade creates problems for everyone. Governments lose valuable revenue and natural resources. Indonesias Corruption Eradication Commission reported that the country lost $9 billion in revenue to the illegal timber trade between 2003 and 2014. Meanwhile, businesses sourcing legal timber lose profits and competitiveness to illegal timber supplies sold at lower prices. So governments and businesses are starting to do more to improve timber traceability, including adopting new and...
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origin
illegal
woods
Celestial navigation: navy resurrects ancient craft to thwart hackers
2016-02-29 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Celestial navigation is making a comeback on the US Navys curriculum as the threat of cyber attacks on increasingly high-tech positioning systems becomes ever more of a concern. How is the navy attempting to tackle modern threats with ancient skills
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ancient
craft
navy
Oil industry must thwart 'misguided' divestment campaign, says Saudi minister
2016-02-25 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Big Oil must thwart the movement to leave fossil fuels in the ground, the worlds most powerful oilman said on Tuesday. Addressing executives in Texas, Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi said the industry had to shed its Dark Side image and show it was a force for good. As an industry, we should be celebrating that fact, and better explaining the vital importance of these precious natural resources, he said in a transcript at an event in Houston. We should not be apologising. And we must ignore...
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oil
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IPv4 scarcity, bad rules thwart French anti-piracy body
2016-02-17 23:27:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) France is experiencing a scarcity of IPv4 addresses, which has led ISP Free to assign several customers to the same public IP address to avoid running out, Next Inpact reports. As a consequence, national anti-piracy authority Hadopi can not pin alleged infractions on specific internet users. Free subscribers have been complaining since December 2015 on the Lafibre.info forum. Hadopi declined to comment immediately while it awaits the nomination of a new chair of its consumer protection committee. Internal sources said this is obviously a big problem and decreasing further the effectiveness of the so-called three strikes or 'graduated response' system.
Genetic engineering could thwart the Zika virus, among other mosquito-borne diseases
2016-01-25 18:01:14| Extremetech
With the recent use of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Brazil to halt the spread of the Zika virus, we might be beginning to see some major health improvements as a consequence of the genetics revolution.
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virus
diseases
genetic