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On A Fast Track: DARPA Plans To Speed Process For Developing New Materials
2014-07-11 12:25:59| rfglobalnet Home Page
Military platforms—such as ships, aircraft and ground vehicles—rely on advanced materials to make them lighter, stronger and more resistant to stress, heat and other harsh environmental conditions.
With Sea Levels Rising, A Small Island Nation Buys A New Home
2014-07-11 08:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Kiribati's escape plan is a Fijian island. Rich people like to buy property on tropical islands for privacy on vacation. For the people of the nation Kiribati, whose government recently announced that it purchased land on a Fiji island more than 1,200 miles away, the reasons are more dire. The property is an escape plan. Kiribati is a tiny island country with a population of 100,000 people in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It faces an existential crisis: Within a few decades, as sea levels...
As climate changes, world weather agency calls for new baseline
2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The World Meteorological Organisation says it`s time to shift climate baselines because global warming is increasingly setting a new "normal" for weather conditions. The widely used 1961-90 baseline should be retained as a "stable reference" for climate study but a more current data set -- updated every decade -- should be adopted to gauge changes in heatwave and rainstorm frequency already under way, the WMO said. "Rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are changing the Earth`s...
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Carbon Dioxide Gets a New Fizz
2014-07-09 17:29:00| Chemical Processing
Technologies transform greenhouse gas into a feedstock for chemicals.
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Storms cause power outages in New Jersey
2014-07-09 14:16:44| Energy - Topix.net
Utility crews are busy and some commuters will face delays after severe thunderstorms rolled through New Jersey, downing trees and knocking out power.
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