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VIDEO: The lives of those affected by Tata Steel
2016-03-30 19:40:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How the future of Port Talbot steel plant could affect the futures of those who depend on it.
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Heritage Moments: A Clarence engineer and the invention that saved millions of lives
2016-03-29 05:19:39| Electronics - Topix.net
One day in 1956, Wilson Greatbatch, a 37-year-old assistant professor of electrical engineering at UB, was working on an oscilloscope at a chronic disease research center on Main Street. He reached to get a brown-black-orange resistor out of a box of tiny components but accidentally pulled out a brown-black-green one instead.
FAA Updates Standards, Tower Designs to save birds' lives.
2016-03-25 13:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Changes made by FAA to its communication tower lighting standards were undertaken to save thousands of birds' lives each year. Tower lighting configurations for tall structures, used to warn pilots when approaching obstruction, include white and red steady-burning, flashing, and strobe lights as well as various combinations of all 3 types. Updated in December 2015, Advisory Circular (AC) for obstruction marking and lighting dictates tower lighting schemes should follow revised guidance.
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Global adoption of vegan diet could save 8 million lives by 2050, says study
2016-03-24 08:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Celebrities like Morrissey, Natalie Portman and even Arnold Schwarzenegger have been preaching the gospel of vegetarianism for some time. Now, they have scientific evidence to back some of their claims. A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that widespread adoption of vegetarian or vegan diets could millions of lives and trillions of dollars by 2050. Imbalanced diets, such as diets low in fruits and vegetables, and high in red and processed meat,...
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El Nio Upsets Seasons, and Upends Lives, Worldwide
2016-03-19 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In rural villages in Africa and Asia, and in urban neighborhoods in South America, millions of lives have been disrupted by weather linked to the strongest El Nio in a generation. In some parts of the world, the problem has been not enough rain; in others, too much. Downpours were so bad in Paraguays capital, Asunción, that shantytowns sprouted along city streets, filled with families displaced by floods. But farmers in India had the opposite problem: Reduced monsoon rains forced them off the...
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