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MIT To Track Ocean Fish With New Technology
Fish shoals, or populations can now be tracked with a new sensor system. Researchers at MIT, Northeastern and the Naval Research Laborartory have come up with a new technology that can cover over a 10,000 square kilometer area. Till date, the current...
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Summit to Discuss On Chemical Usage And Management
Use of man-made chemicals is rising dramatically. 1,500 new chemicals are produced a year, according to the UN. Environment ministers from around the world are meeting in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to discuss on this. This United Nations-backed..
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Fossil fuel or Bio-fuel - Which Is The Real Answer to Reduce Global Warming?
Amidst the rising concerns for global warming and search for alternate energies on one hand, and researching on the effects of hybrid fuel, a new book claims that there is enough oil, coal and gas to last the earth at least 500 years - it may kick up...
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U.S. Mining Giant Accused of Polluting Sea, Contaminating Fish
Waste from the company's mine near here was deposited in the sea at too shallow a depth, causing the contamination of fish. This is said by a star government witness in a criminal trial against the American mining giant Newmont. The witness is...
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Know All About Your 'Hybrid' Vehicle
'Hybrid' is the present buzzword in the world of concern for the increasing global warming scenarios. Though most consumers have heard of hybrid vehicles, many of them could not explain what it is and how does it work for and in your vehicle....
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Manure Microbes Can Minimize Pharmaceutical Pollution
We understand infection, when it comes to bacteria. Bacteria are usually viewed as 'the enemy' and targeted with potent antibiotics to curb their ability to infect. But, do you know microbes--including several types of bacteria--can be a farmer's...
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Duck-Billed Dino's Colossal Crests Does Not Help It Smell
We all know the duck-billed dinosaurs' massive crests help it smell. But, its actually not so. This has been kicking up debates or decades. But, a U of T researcher has come up with a reply. He has finally determined that the creatures' massive but...
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Colonialists Pushed Orangutans To Brink Of Extinction: Genetic Evidence Shows
There occurred a population collapse in the Bornean orangutan. A three year genetic study by wildlife geneticists from Cardiff School of Biosciences has shown this. Since the late 19th Century, this decrease amounts to one hundred fold. And this...
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Gray Wolves Need To Be Taken Off From Endangered List: Fed
Once catapulted to Endangered Species List, the Gray wolves in the northern Rockies are increasing dramatically now. And... what next? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was expected to issue a proposal Thursday to remove the 'no more' endangered...
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What Wiped Out Dinosaur from Earth?-Debate Continues...
Some 65 million years ago dinosaurs were wiped out from the planet Earth. But, what factors are responsible for this mass extinction of the giant creatures? This issue has been kicking up controversies since ages, and is seemingly a never-ending one..
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Eight weird tree sculptures carved by nature
Plants and trees have excellent flexibility. They are capable of creating strange works of unintentional art that you just watch them bewildered. There are artists who have given meaningful shapes to trees such as of tables and mirrors. Tree sculptures ar
The Big Question: Are vertical farms really green?
Why we are asking this nowThe concept of vertical farming is receiving a number of positive as well as negative feedback, right from its inception. Many agriculturalists and socialists have analyzed the usefulness of this concept in the practical world. I
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Curtains are primarily meant to avert sunlight and heat from entering our rooms. Draping over the windows and doors curtains secure us. Here we talk about ten innovative curtains that can conserve energy in various ways. There are curtains embedded with s
What’s Next: Future homes to eschew apocalypse
As we know it The claims of an apocalypse-like situation may be wrong. But, it can't be denied that millions of people around the world die every year because of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, tsunami and tornado. The world faces about 600 disa
