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Corrosion mystery solved, but Flint's struggles continue
2016-03-31 03:20:39| Waste Management - Topix.net
Shortly before this poverty-stricken city began drawing its drinking water from a local river in a cost-cutting move nearly two years ago, officials huddled at the municipal water treatment plant, running through a checklist of final preparations. Mike Glasgow, a plant supervisor at the time, says he asked a state water quality official at the meeting how often his staffers would need to check the water for proper levels of phosphate, a chemical added to prevent lead corrosion from pipes.
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The big ban theory: Big city pollution wont be solved by kneejerk odd-even reactions
2016-01-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Blink before you ban should be the first lesson in administration. This applies not just to Delhi government's odd and even licence plate policy, but equally to liquor ban, beef ban, book ban, and the list goes on. While Delhi is still experimenting with its new traffic rules, let us pause for some reality therapy. It is important we do this before the odd and even idea spreads and catches other cities too. A ban is like an antibiotic; in the right dose it helps, over medicate and the drug turns...
Mystery of heat loss from the Earth's crust has been solved
2015-12-22 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The first discovery of a new type of hydrothermal vent system in a decade helps explain the long observed disconnect between the theoretical rate at which the Earth's crust is cooling at seafloor spreading ridge flanks, and actual observations. It could also help scientists interpret the evidence for past global climates more accurately. This discovery has been made by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton using …
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Mystery of arsenic release into groundwater solved
2015-12-04 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Groundwater in South and Southeast Asia commonly contains concentrations of arsenic 20 to 100 times greater than the World Health Organization's recommended limit, resulting in more than 100 million people being poisoned by drinking arsenic-laced water in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Vietnam and China. Stanford scientists have solved an important mystery about where the microbes responsible for releasing dangerous arsenic into groundwater in Southeast Asia…
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Stephen Hawking may have finally solved the black hole information problem
2015-08-27 17:00:48| Extremetech
Stephen Hawking thinks he's solved the mystery of what happens to information inside a black hole.
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