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To Tackle Runoff, Cities Turn to Green Initiatives
2013-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In Northeast Philadelphia, along busy Kensington Avenue, sits a small park. What used to be flat ground is now sloping terrain that contains a low-lying area intended to gather and funnel storm water. At the park's southern end is a depression lined with well-arranged plants -- a new landscape carefully engineered to change how water flows through the area. This is Womrath Park, one of a handful of "green infrastructure' projects Philadelphia has begun -- with many more to come -- aimed at tackling...
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Researchers Turn DNA Into Digital Storage Medium
2013-01-24 11:36:21| PC Magazine Storage Devices Product Guide
EMBL-EBI scientists Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney say their breakthrough could make it possible to 'store at least 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA.'
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President Obama's own words turn up heat on Keystone decision
2013-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obama is in a pipeline pickle. The presidents call for action on climate change during Mondays inaugural speech puts his upcoming decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline in an even brighter spotlight pitting his pledge to tackle global warming against his stated commitment to an all of the above energy strategy. Republicans and industry groups will unleash a torrent of attacks on the president if he rejects the pipeline. And Keystone has strong support from some Democrats...
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Feds turn to agile development as budget cuts loom
2013-01-22 14:38:21| InfoWorld: Top News
Federal agencies, including the Defense Department, are facing unprecedented budget problems that are creating a new reality for government IT. IT managers are turning to agile development to speed up projects and to quickly show their value. The days of the big, lumbering, multi-year government IT project may be slowly ending.
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United Kingdom: Sad to see the tide turn against the otter
2013-01-20 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I love otters. I recall my father's excitement at seeing one glistening on a rock beside the sea on the west coast of Scotland in the summer of 1982. When I lived in a cottage beside the river Usk in my 30s, I used to rise before dawn in the hope of glimpsing the resident otter bitch teaching her pups to fish. Even now, I still get a thrill stumbling across a fish carcass, the debris of an otter's dinner, rotting on a riverbank. I was surprised to learn recently that otters are now so numerous...
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