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Nighttime Heat Waves in Pacific Northwest Quadruple over Last 30 Years

2013-07-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World News: The heat is turning up in the Pacific Northwest. Washington and Oregon have been documented undergoing a marked rise in nighttime heat waves. Nighttime heat waves -- defined by a three-day period where the daily low temperature is in the top one percent of highest temperatures recorded -- have more than quadrupled in the last 30 years, according to researchers at the University of Washington. According to the researchers, the region west of the Cascades saw only three nighttime heat waves between...

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Robot gymnast does quadruple backflip, sticks landing

2013-07-16 19:25:56| CNET News.com

Hinamitetu is a Japanese gymnast that just happens to be made out of electronics. The accomplished robot just pulled off an impressive backflip. [Read more]

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China plans to quadruple solar power-generating capacity by 2015

2013-07-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Financial Times: China has given a lift to the renewable energy industry by formally setting out plans to more than quadruple its solar power-generating capacity to 35 gigawatts by 2015. Chinas State Council, or cabinet, said it hoped 10GW of capacity would be added annually over the next three years, in a step that should help soak up the countrys sizeable share of a global glut in supply that has savaged many of the industrys biggest names and seen solar panel prices plummet in the past two years. This confirms...

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Pandora hits 2.5M in-car activations, quadruple last year's mark

2013-06-25 17:29:32| CNET News.com

Forget the big white whale, it's a big white car that Internet radio needs to slay. The top Web radio service hits a milestone of unique activations, but they're drops in the ocean until car tech is more accommodating. [Read more]

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