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VIDEO: Making money from unexploded bombs
2013-08-14 04:35:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Vietnamese farmer who has spent more than 20 years digging out unexploded bombs for money.
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U.S. Navy drops 4 bombs on Great Barrier Reef
2013-07-23 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Australia's Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, is already threatened by climate change, coral bleaching, pesticides, overfishing, oil spills and invasive species. Now we can add four unexploded bombs to the list. U.S. Navy pilots dropped the four bombs on the Great Barrier Reef this week during Talisman Saber, a joint exercise between the Australian and United States militaries. More than 28,000 soldiers and other military personnel converge on northern Australia...
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Indonesia drops water bombs on fires, may resort to cloud-seeding
2013-06-22 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In an effort to control peat fires casting a pall of haze over neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, Indonesia is using airplanes to drop water across hotspots in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra, reports AFP. Officials say they may try cloud-seeding - dumping silver iodide at high altitude - if current fire-fighting efforts fall short. The fires are a growing source of tension between Indonesia and its neighbors. The Indonesian minister in charge of handling the fires, fanned the diplomatic...
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DARPA's robot changes tire, aspires to defuse bombs
2013-04-03 03:36:29| CNET News.com
New video shows a two-handed robot changing a tire by itself. The research could pave the way for a new generation of robotic peacekeepers capable of taking on tasks too dangerous for humans. [Read more]
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The First Amendment Bombs Nuclear Energy By Accident
2013-02-24 12:47:32| Energy - Topix.net
In a journalistic drone strike gone horribly wrong, news outlets across the country ran images of a nuclear power plant last Saturday with their reports on a leaking underground radioactive nuclear weapons waste tank at the Government's nuclear reservation many miles away.
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