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Android 7.0 Nougat released by Google

2016-08-22 19:59:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Google rolls out a new version of Android that allows mobile devices to run two apps simultaneously on the same screen.

A New Climate Danger: Carbon Released by Burning Bogs

2016-08-08 05:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Kristyn Housman grabbed the end of a sampling auger, a steel tube that two colleagues had just drilled into a moss-covered hummock in a peat bog, and poked through a damp, fibrous plug of partly decomposed peat. Peat has been building up for centuries in this bog, where the spongy moss is interspersed with black spruces and, on a late spring morning, the air is teeming with mosquitoes. The sample, taken from three feet down, is at least several hundred years old, said Ms. Housman, a graduate researcher...

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Cold War-era radioactive waste stored under Greenland's ice could be released as global temperatures rise

2016-08-06 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of U.S. research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-level radioactive coolant there when...

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Millions of GM mosquitoes could be released in Florida to combat Zika virus

2016-08-04 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released into the state of Florida to combat Zika virus after 15 people caught the disease from local insects. Congress could decide within weeks to grant an emergency licence to British biotech company Oxitec, which has engineered a line of insects whose offspring are unable to grow to adulthood, and so cannot reproduce. The company has already build a lab in the Florida Keys and is just waiting for the green light from the government and...

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