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China's deserts are expanding at an alarming rate. So it's fighting back, with straw mats
2014-06-10 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global Post: We were surrounded by sand. It stretched in undulating waves to the horizon in all directions. Wei Men, who works for the Baijitan Nature Reserve in Ningxia province, beckoned for us to step down from our desert overlook and take a close-up look at the desert floor. He wanted to show us what officials hope is the future of this arid stretch of China. Ningxia is facing a big problem. A small and relatively poor province, its population is growing and it has ambitions to expand its industry...
If Life Gives You Straw, Make Some Fuel
2014-05-24 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A massive quantity of surplus straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is produced each year with little to use it for. Now, researchers suggest that this straw can be converted into second-generation biofuel, making harvests from golden fields even more useful. A study published in Bioresource Technology, details how researchers at the Biorefinery Centre on the Norwich Research Park found that energy sources in tough straw can be exposed using a sort of "pressure cooking"...
Don Beyer Wins Straw Poll Among Democrats Running in 8th District Primary
2014-03-02 07:58:42| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Which Democrat is pulling ahead in the 8th congressional District primary race, for the seat of retiring Congressman Jim Moran? A straw poll was held Saturday night at the Mount Vernon District Democratic Committee's sixth annual Mardi Gras fundraiser; 10 of the 11 candidates and their supporters gathered to have some fun, make some speeches and ... (more)
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Taiwan study on production of hydrogen from rice straw
2013-12-09 13:30:27| Green Car Congress
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Australia: Bushfires: Coalition deploys straw man against burning issue of climate change
2013-10-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government is desperately constructing a straw man to help it fight the potentially big political problem of rising public concern about climate change and scrutiny of its Direct Action policy. The straw man is the contention that anyone making a perfectly reasonable and scientifically justifiable point -- that climate change is likely to cause a higher prevalence of the weather conditions that pose a bushfire risk -- has actually been making the unreasonable and scientifically unjustifiable...
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