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Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect Amazon
2013-12-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 the destruction seemed unstoppable. Brazil's deforestation rate had reached an alarming 27,000 square kilometers (nearly 17,000 square miles) per year. But stop it did-not everywhere, but at the borders of what appears from space...
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Big insurers are brought into discussions on how to protect NYC against future storms
2013-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Some of the world's leading insurance companies assembled in a room on Wall Street this fall to hear the opening pitch for a massive undertaking, constructing a chain of coastal barriers to defend the New York City region from future flooding. The ambitious vision differs from the $14 billion system completed recently by the federal government to protect New Orleans from hurricanes that might mimic Katrina. The East Coast project, a potential network of walls, gates and dunes, would be financed...
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NYC testing systems to protect riders who fall on subway tracks
2013-12-14 09:51:49| Railroads - Topix.net
New York City transit officials have begun testing new technology that aims to guard against a rare but terrifying prospect for subway riders - tumbling into the path of an oncoming train.
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Wireless Enclosure Systems Protect SCADA and Wireless Backhaul Communications
2013-12-12 17:03:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Ventev Wireless Infrastructure has announced its new line of fully integrated Outdoor Wireless Enclosure Systems designed for DragonWave, FreeWave, and GE MDS radios. read more
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Radial Shaft Seals protect critical steel mill assets.
2013-12-12 14:31:31| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Promoting performance and reliability, HSS radial-shaft seals enable metal rolling mills to protect large-size bearings from ingress of potentially harmful contaminants. Products are manufactured from nitrile rubber (NBR), SKF DURATEMP® (HNBR), and SKF DURALIFE (FKM). While standard grade is used for sealing lip, harder grade is engineered for part of seal body contacting housing bore. Reinforced seal design allows for split versions to facilitate installation and replacement. This story is related to the following:Radial Lip Seals | Shaft Seals
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