Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
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Cyanobacteria bloom on Lake Erie, turning bright green near the surface. Satellite image taken Oct. 9, 2011. NASA MODIS data processed by R. Stumpf, NOAA. One summer day two years ago, Danny and Laura Jenkins' black Labrador retriever ...
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Swiss chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut has announced that it is establishing a$1.5m Center of Cocoa Excellence in Côte d'Ivoire,to promote advanced agricultural techniques in the country. The center,which will be located in ...
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Struggling Dutch meat firm Vion has announced a raft of job cuts across its European operations. In its latest set of results, the company said economic conditions and increased prices for raw materials hit the firm's profits last year. ...
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In May 2012, Producer Price Index (PPI) for manufactured goods decreased 1.4 percent, year-on-year, and 0.4 percent decrease month-on-month. The purchasing price index for manufactured goods went down by 1.6 percent year-on-year, and 0.3 ...
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Everlight has received Top Supplier Award from Stoneridge,Inc.,a global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered electrical and electronic components,modules and systems principally for the commercial vehicle,automotive and ...
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The future is happening all around us,and while it will be filled hopefully with flying cars and robot servants,it will also be filled with people.Lots and lots of people-according to demographic experts,some ten billion of them by 2050.And ...
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THE construction industry will be able to count on the supply of plantation softwood timber increasing by about 27 per cent over the next 20-30 years. But the volume of plantation hardwood for similar and higher value use will lag far ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier(a subsidiary of Japanese energy business Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.)–the largest manufacturer of CIS(copper indium selenium)thin-film photovoltaic(PV)solar modules-and Germany-based Belectric-the world's ...
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In April 2012, Producer Price Index (PPI) for manufactured goods decreased 0.7 percent, year-on-year, and 0.2 percent increase month-on-month. The purchasing price index for manufactured goods went down by 0.8 percent year-on-year, and ...
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A new strategy aimed at monitoring the supply chain of timber products using genetic and stable isotope markers will play a vital role in international efforts to combat illegal logging, say scientists, policy analysts and forestry experts ...
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The world's largest municipal Nutrient Recovery Facility is being unveiled today at the Rock Creek Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility in Hillsboro, OR, thanks to a successful public/private partnership between Clean Water Services and ...
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After two years of negotiations, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved the country's controversial 'Forest Code'. The legislationregulates land use and allows for the creation of boundaries within which native vegetation should be ...
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New Sky Energy has scooped Imagine H2O's Wastewater Prize for its technology that converts industrial and agricultural wastewater and CO2 into high-value chemical products, including carbonates (e. G., soda ash, limestone), bases (e. G., ...
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Frazier & Frazier Industries, Coolidge, Texas, recently added an automated matchplate molding machine to its casting capabilities. Traditionally a more manual shop, the company has added automatic coresetting equipment and automated molding ...
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