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Recent satellite data reveal serious decline in Georgia salt marsh health
2016-08-02 02:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Scientists at the University of Georgia's Marine Institute at Sapelo Island have found that the amount of vegetation along the Georgia coast has declined significantly in the last 30 years, spurring concerns about the overall health of marshland ecosystems in the area. Using data collected by NASA's Landsat TM 5 satellite, which provided 28 years of nearly continuous images of Earth's surface between 1984 and 2011, the researchers found that the amount of marsh plant biomass had dropped 35 percent....
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How sun, salt and glass could help solve our energy needs
2016-07-31 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: High in the stark Nevada desert, a couple of hundred miles north-west of Las Vegas, is the shimmering circular mirage of Crescent Dunes. Ten thousand silvery glass panes, each measuring 115 square metres, surround a tall central tower, which stands like a twinkling needle in the featureless landscape around it. Resembling a fabulous alien metropolis, Crescent Dunes is in fact a highly sophisticated, mile-and-a-half-wide solar power plant the next generation in solar energy, according to Kevin...
Desalination Breakthrough: Saving the Sea from Salt
2016-06-12 05:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Farid Benyahia wants to solve two environmental problems at once: excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and excess salt in the Persian Gulf (aka the Arabian Gulf). Oil and natural gas drive the regions booming economieshence the excess CO2and desalination supplies the vast majority of drinking water, a process that creates concentrated brine waste that is usually dumped back into the gulf. Benyahia, a chemical engineer at Qatar University, thinks he may have hit on a neatly efficient way...
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May's top stories: Salt Lake City Airport to construct North Concourse, Montréal PierreElliott Trudeau Airport improvements
2016-06-07 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Salt Lake City Airport to construct $740m North Concourse, and Aéroports de Montréal inaugurates $350m improvements at Montréal Pierre-Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Airport-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from May 2016.
New method for recovering lithium from natural salt pools with purity up to 99.9%
2016-06-04 11:56:34| Green Car Congress
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