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How Orange Waste Transformed a Barren Section of a Costa Rican National Park
2017-08-30 18:11:41| Waste Age
The barren section of Costa Rican national park Área de Conservación Guanacaste now resembles lush woodland.
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Fairbanks to the rescue: Railroad to haul snow to barren Anchorage for Iditarod
2016-03-01 04:05:53| Railroads - Topix.net
A lack of snow in Alaska's biggest city has led to the Alaska Railroad transporting 300 to 350 cubic yards of snow from Fairbanks to downtown Anchorage for use in Saturday's ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and the Fur Rondy's Running of the Reindeer.
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This barren desert was once Bolivia's second-largest lake
2016-01-25 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was once Bolivia's second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in what marshes remain. Lake Poopó was officially declared evaporated last month. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have lost their livelihoods and left the area. High on Bolivia's semi-arid Andean plains at 3,700 meters (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially...
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Investors see green shoots in barren Argentine real estate market
2015-07-23 10:43:46| Real Estate - Topix.net
Argentina is still struggling with a dearth of hard currency and mortgages but with a change of government later this year, investors at home and abroad are positioning themselves for a real estate market revival they say is already taking root. Real estate sales tanked in recent years due to stagflation and capital controls introduced by President Cristina Fernandez in 2011.
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The south pole of Mars shows that the Red Planet isnt always dull, dusty, and barren
2013-09-06 15:58:01| Extremetech
What you see here is an image of Mars' south pole, captured by the European Space Agency's Mars Express Orbiter. It is distinctly different from the dusty, barren, not-attractive landscapes that we usually associate with the Red Planet, but it's still most definitely Mars.
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