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Projects Increase Collaboration among Scientists
2013-01-18 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The vice-chair of Swine Innovation Porc says research efforts funded through Growing Forward have helped improve the level of collaboration among scientists across Canada, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Scientists harness firefly technology to make LEDs more efficient
2013-01-16 19:19:01| Extremetech
Understanding firefly scales as tiny prisms that change the way light impinges on an interface and creates new sharp-edged channels through which light can diffuse lets us make LEDs more efficient. Features in nature may sometimes appear frivolous or even fickle, like the feathers of a peacock, but upon closer inspection usually offer something we can harness to improve the things we build.
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Scientists: Climate change could harm Maui plant
2013-01-16 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Scientists say the outlook is bleak for a rare Maui plant if current climate change trends continue. They say the Haleakala silversword plant is increasingly under stress as the Maui volcano gets warmer and drier. University of Hawaii biologist Paul Krushelnycky said Tuesday the plant illustrates how even well-protected and relatively abundant species may succumb to climate-induced stress. He co-authored a paper on the topic published this week in the journal Global Change Biology. Animals eating...
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Minn. legislators and scientists team up on climate change
2013-01-16 04:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Science made a comeback at the State Capitol on Tuesday. Five of Minnesota's most prominent researchers on agriculture, land use, weather and climate change gave a room packed with legislators a quick but sweeping summary of the global environmental problems facing the state. They touched on floods, drought, massive thunderstorms, a changing forest, invasive bugs and rising demand for groundwater. The point, Reps. Jean Wagenius and Alice Hausman said, is that the DFL-controlled House intends...
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Scientists Call on President to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline
2013-01-15 18:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Thousands of concerned citizens will come to Washington, DC on Feb. 17, President`s Day weekend, to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline. Eighteen of the nations top climate scientists released a letter to President Obama today urging him to say no to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Eighteen months ago some of us wrote you about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, explaining why in our opinion its construction ran counter to both national and planetary interests," wrote the scientists....
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