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Size of the matter offshore ergonomics prepares for an overhaul
2013-04-22 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
A new study measuring the size of offshore oil and gas workers' bodies is currently underway, with the aim of improving ergonomic safety on rigs. As the first study of its kind for more than twenty years, what issues does it raise about the current s
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Living with More Pollution: Why Race and Place Still Matter
2013-04-20 18:27:32| Waste Management - Topix.net
Healthy people and healthy places are highly correlated. The poorest of the poor within the U.S. have the worst health and live in the most degraded environments.
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Europes Carbon Market Crisis: Why Does it Matter?
2013-04-18 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The European Parliament this week voted 334-315 (with 60 abstentions) against a controversial "back-loading" plan that aimed to boost the flagging price of carbon, which since 2008 has fallen from about 31 euros per tonne to about 4 euros (about $5.20). Since the vote, the price has fallen even farther, to 2.80 euros. The collapsing market is hardly the kind of firm foundation needed for building a clean-energy economy. (Related: "Renewable Energy Not Growing as Fast as Necessary," and "IEA Outlook:...
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Particle physicists discover strongest ever evidence of dark matter
2013-04-18 20:41:19| Extremetech
Half a mile underground, in a disused mine in Minnesota, researchers have discovered the first ever tantalizing hints of dark matter -- a form of matter that is theorized to make up almost all of the matter in the universe, but which has -- until now -- led a completely hypothetical existence and never been observed.
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G8 Ministers argue climate action must "intensify as a matter of urgency"
2013-04-12 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: G8 foreign ministers yesterday reiterated their commitment to driving an acceleration in efforts to tackle climate change, warning that climate impacts will have "dramatic consequences not only on the environment but also on economic prosperity". The communique issued at the close of the two-day meeting of ministers in London, which precedes the June G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, recognises that climate change is a "contributing factor to increased economic and security risks globally". It...
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