Authorities in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region are considering building a successful business model for ecological industry on the vast prairies, but it's not a straightforward task. Wang Kaihao reports from Hohhot. It has been six ...
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In the Arizona desert, the first U.S. commercial plantings of Giant King Grass are being established – for use as livestock feed first, and hopefully as a renewable energy feedstock in the future. That's according to Carl Kukkonen, ...
Tags: Energy Crop, Livestock Feed
A selection of health policy stories from California, Florida and Minnesota. Los Angeles Times: Blue Shield Of California Rate Hike Is Excessive, Regulator Says California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones criticized Blue Shield of ...
Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has launched a series of power MiniLEDs in ultra-compact 2.3mm by 1.3mm by 1.4mm SMD packages. Using the latest aluminum indium gallium phosphide (AlInGaP) technology, the VLMx234.. series ...
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DQS has certified Symrise as a 'Green Company'. Independent DQS auditors have assessed the internal processes in research, development, manufacturing and sales concluding that Symrise fulfills the international requirements of the Global ...
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Growing investor interest in the Australian processed food sector and divestments by large Australian food manufacturers are becoming more frequent. The recent drop in the Australian dollar and export market opportunities may be driving ...
A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar far more ...
Tags: battery, renewable energy, grid-scale battery, metal-free flow battery
What did Tyrannosaurus rex really look like? Depending on which artist's impression you look at, the carnivorous king of the Cretaceous was a dull grey, an earthy brown, maybe a dark green... perhaps it was ochre, or even the colour of a ...
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Global CO2 emissions continue to rise—in 2012 alone, 35.7 billion tons of this greenhouse gas entered the atmosphere. Some of it is absorbed by the oceans, plants and soil. They provide a significant reservoir of carbon. Scientists ...
Tags: CO2, CO2 emissions, reservoir of carbon, organic carbon, soil
For the first time in nearly 10 years, the nation's beef herd may be poised for growth, which could mean relief from rising meat prices. But with the fewest cattle in the beef supply since the 1960s, slow growth won't cut prices anytime ...
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Robinsons Brewery, a UK-based beer maker, is set to introduce six new handcrafted ales throughout 2014, which will be available for a limited time of two months. The six new ales are Hannibal's Nectar, Hoptimum Prime, Brazilian, Citra ...
Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, launches Opti P Lucence, a range of zips which provide a special ‘glow in the dark’ effect. The zips charge in sunlight (UV) and can ...
The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A ...
Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Epileds released their December consolidated revenue. Affected by stocktaking towards the end of 2013, revenue for December reached NT $110 million (US $3.7 million), a decrease of 6.87 percent compared to ...
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Ten years after NASA landed two rovers on Mars on a 90-day mission, one rover is still exploring, and the project has generated hundreds of thousands of images from the Martian surface. Now the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
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