Could microalgae fuel the future? Researchers are fine-tuning a technology that transforms wet algal biomass into a biogas that is compatible with today's natural gas infrastructure. Microalgae derived biogas is becoming an increasingly ...
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An inventory of wild-caught caterpillars, its food plants and parasitoids, has been going on for more than 34 years in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a protected area of approximately 1200 km2 in northwestern Costa Rica. As a ...
Tags: ACG, Local Parataxonomist, ZooKey, parasitoid wasp
Ssangyong Motor (CEO Lee Yoo-il;www.smotor.com), part of the Mahindra Group, today announced that the company achieved its highest revenue last year since its establishment, driven by global sales growth despite the overall sluggish demand ...
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An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic ...
Argentine Presidential Chief of Staff Jorge Capitanich said Monday that a proposed reduction in state energy subsidies will help increase investment in the sector, making it possible to boost gas production and scale back imports. "What ...
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Echo Global Logistics Inc. said its profit fell in the fourth quarter due to weak demand in November that only partially recovered in December. Echo's net income dropped to $2.7 million, or 12 cents a share, from $3.3 million, or 14 ...
Tags: Transportation
Green flooring options are becoming more and more popular each year. Flooring manufacturers have, understandably, taken a two-pronged approach to green flooring options, developing new products and more aggressively marketing current ...
Tags: Bamboo, cork, Sustainably Harvested Hardwood, Reclaimed Lumber
US over-the-counter thermal coal prices closed little changed on Tuesday, with only a handful of trades seen across the Central Appalachian and Powder River Basin 8,800-Btu/lb coal markets. In the East, CAPP rail (CSX) coal prices edged 5 ...
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Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO:Satya Nadella,who as executive vice president of the company's Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company's back-end server ...
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According to the latest report from IHS, the 2013 global market for industrial electronics semiconductors was a healthy year, with overall revenue up from a disappointing drop from 2012. The worldwide industrial electronics chip revenue for ...
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Set to the sounds of soulful electrified blues music, Kia Motors America (KMA) today hosted the global unveiling of the 2015 Soul EV at the Chicago Auto Show. Scheduled to go on sale in the third quarter of 2014, the Soul EV will be Kia's ...
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The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) will host the exhibition ‘legs’ from the 11th to the 17th of February, within the programmed activity agenda for ‘See You in Valencia’, the event that will bring together ...
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A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows that more than 20 percent of the ...
Tags: DNA, Max Planck Institute, Vernot, Human Genome
Further to Josh Brooks’ comments in The Answer To The Litter Problem Is Simple: Stop Littering (Packaging News, Monday, January 20) we at LINPAC Packaging would like to add our own views on the issues surrounding litter and the ...
YFY Paper, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Yuen Foong Yu Paper Manufacturing, has sucessfully started operation of paper-making machine PM 3 supplied by Voith in Yangzhou, China. Built with energy-efficient technology, the equipment can ...
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