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Wind power plant in Atacama Desert fills Chile's clean-energy sails
2016-07-05 13:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Deep in northern Chile's Atacama Desert, a remote community of 6,000 people is preparing to host the country's largest wind power plant. The residents of Freirina commune, on the coast of Huasco province, 700 km (435 miles) from the capital Santiago, have traditionally made a living from mining, olive farming, fishing and collecting seaweed. The new wind project marks a turning point for all Freirinas families, according to 35-year-old mayor Cesar Orellana, a clean-energy enthusiast. Having...
New buyers desert housing market
2016-05-12 01:13:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The number of people interested in buying a house in April fell to its lowest level for nearly eight years, according to surveyors across the UK.
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How a Bunch of Supercomputers in the Desert Are Keeping You Safe
2016-05-05 15:05:25| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
PCMag met up with two supercomputing and quantum cryptography experts at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Strategic Computing Complex to see what keeps them busy at the secretive compound.
Desert mangroves are major source of carbon storage, study shows
2016-03-29 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers found that short, stunted mangroves living along the coastal desert of Baja California store up to five times more carbon below ground than their lush, tropical counterparts. The new study led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego estimates that coastal desert mangroves, which only account for one percent of the land area, store nearly 30 percent of the region's belowground carbon. "Mangroves represent a thin layer between ocean and land, and yet we...
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UT food desert feeds unhealthy eating habits
2016-03-07 08:33:09| Grocery - Topix.net
College is a formative period for a lot of reasons. It turns students into adults capable of doing adult things like living on their own, managing a budget and eating their vegetables.
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