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Alexander Motorsports Wins 2012 Bluewater Desert Challenge and 3rd BITD Championship
2013-01-24 21:09:56| K&N Racing News
After two remarkable days of racing Alexander Motorsports not only finished first in Class and 14th overall in their heat for the weekend, but with one race to go in the 2012 Best in the Desert...
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Cheap, polymer-coated cotton automagically captures water from desert air
2013-01-21 18:03:31| Extremetech
Just like how people end up living in the bitter, frostbitten cold, other people end up living in hot, arid regions. In the cold you need heat -- something easily remedied with proper clothing and heating equipment -- but in the heat, you need water, which is something you can't quite create out of man-made components. However, researchers have created a new special coating that, when applied to cotton, can suck water right out of the air.
Green Desert: Climate changes to disrupt Southwest
2013-01-20 05:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: On Jan. 11, the National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee a consortium of 13 federal agencies released its third draft report on the impact of climate change on the U.S. As seems to be the rule with federal documents, its monstrously long, but fairly readable and the online table of contents is easy to navigate. I went directly to the section on the Southwest to see whats in store for the desert. Its unsettling reading. Snowpack and streamflow amounts are projected to decline, decreasing...
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Desert Attack Threatens Output From Africa's Largest Gas Industry: Energy
2013-01-18 14:52:53| Energy - Topix.net
The killing of foreign workers in the Algerian desert threatens production from North Africa's largest oil and gas industry, the main source of revenue for a country that avoided unrest when the Arab spring swept away regimes across the region.
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Desert Attack Threatens Output From Africa's Largest Gas Industry: Energy
2013-01-18 06:37:42| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The killing of foreign workers in the Algerian desert threatens production from North Africa's largest oil and gas industry, the main source of revenue for a country that avoided unrest when the Arab spring swept away regimes across the region.
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