An extremely cold weather system is forecast to bring record low temperatures to much of the Midwestern and Eastern regions of the United States, including areas in the South. The high temperature in Chicago will be below zero Fahrenheit ...
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A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker left Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent's eastern edge, officials said. The 122-meter (399-foot) ...
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An Indonesian volcano that has erupted relentlessly for months shot volcanic ash into the air 30 times on Saturday, forcing further evacuations with more than 20,000 people now displaced, an official said. Mount Sinabung on the western ...
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Feed-in tariffs (FIT) have been the preferred policy in many regions of the world to help support investors to rapidly increase installation of renewable energy installations projects and markets. Under most FITs, homeowners, businesses, ...
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"Where are the robots?" That was what many people were asking when events at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant spiraled out of control in March 2011. With deadly levels of radiation collecting inside the damaged reactors, attempting to ...
A new study published in Science this month suggests the thinning of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is much more susceptible to climatic and ocean variability than at first thought. Observations by a team of scientists at British ...
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Horseheads Brewing has entered into a distribution agreement with Sarene Craft Beer Distributors to offer its products in Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island. The American brewer will roll out its year-round collection as ...
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Although the contraction of Taiwan's machine-tool exports slowed to 5.8% for the month of November 2013, the Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builders' Association (TMBA) estimates that the island's overseas shipments of machine tools for ...
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Between 1965 and 2004, the distribution of states with the highest mortality changed dramatically. In 1965, the states with the highest mortality (Rhode Island, Alaska, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire) were spread across ...
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Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump. This is all part of an arduous ...
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A new Duke University-led study has documented dramatic, natural short-term increases in acidity in a North Carolina estuary. "The natural short-term variability in acidity we observed over the course of one year exceeds 100-year global ...
Marine mammals are flagship and charismatic species, very attractive for the general public. Nowadays, they are also considered as highly relevant sentinel of the marine realm. Their presence and their welfare in an area is thought to ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.20 and 1/2, down 1 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybeans closed at $12.87, down 25 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $423.80, down $13.90 Jan. soybean oil closed at 38.51, ...
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The famous Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings recently put out a report noting that Taiwan's economy has shifted to a virtual dependency on IT supply chain businesses. The briefing paper, which can be found here, has some pretty serious ...
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Singapore's growth quickened in 2013 and the country will "do well" going forward, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. Gross domestic product rose 3.7 per cent this year, Lee, 61, said in his New Year message today. That's in line with ...
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