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Electric range-extended trucks can double fuel economy
Posted: January 26, 2015When it comes to electric vehicles, we hear plenty about electric cars being launched into the consumer market but not too much about commercial vehicles. Maybe that’s because not too…
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Ebola impacting Chimps and Gorillas even more than humans
Posted: January 25, 2015While the whole world is aware of the many human fatalities from the Ebola epidemic in Western Africa, you may not realize that the disease has claimed hundreds of thousands…
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Missouri River Sturgeon need more oxygen to reproduce. Dead zones, dams implicated.
Posted: January 24, 2015Pallid sturgeon come from a genetic line that has lived on this planet for tens of millions of years; yet it has been decades since anyone has documented any of…
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Warming seas decrease sea turtle basking
Posted: January 23, 2015Green sea turtles may stop basking on beaches around the world within a century due to rising sea temperatures, a new study suggests. Basking on sun-warmed beaches helps the threatened turtles…
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Arctic Ice Slides into the Ocean
Posted: January 23, 2015Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 – about one sixth of its original thickness – and that…
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Success! Private sector Soy Moratorium effective in reducing deforestation in the Amazon
Posted: January 23, 2015Today, fewer chicken nuggets can trace their roots to cleared Amazon rain forest.In 2006, following a report from Greenpeace and under pressure from consumers, large companies like McDonald's and Wal-Mart…
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Going with the Flow
Posted: January 22, 2015Millions of Americans live in flood-prone areas. In 2012 alone, the cost of direct flood damage hit nearly half a billion dollars. However, because the factors contributing to flood risk…
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Mystery Goo is Killing Seabirds in the San Francisco Bay
Posted: January 22, 2015Rescuers are working diligently to save birds who are being killed by a “mysterious goo” that has appeared in the San Francisco Bay, while officials remain perplexed about what the…
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Atmospheric Rivers Add to Antarctica's Ice Sheets
Posted: January 22, 2015Extreme weather phenomena called atmospheric rivers were behind intense snowstorms recorded in 2009 and 2011 in East Antarctica. The resulting snow accumulation partly offset recent ice loss from the Antarctic…
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Exeter University study casts doubt on theory of dinosaur extinction
Posted: January 22, 2015Pioneering new research has debunked the theory that the asteroid that is thought to have led to the extinction of dinosaurs also caused vast global firestorms that ravaged planet Earth.A…
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