Germany's economy and energy minister laid out Tuesday proposals to curb renewable energy subsidies and cap electricity prices but opponents fear they could jeopardise the country's much vaunted green energy transition. Just weeks after ...
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Greater attention must be paid to generating renewable heat if the climate protection targets set in Germany and around the world are to be met. At 40%, the heating market accounts for the largest proportion of energy consumed in Germany ...
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Case goods and upholstery resource Sunpan Modern Home is more than doubling its space for the Las Vegas Market, enabling it to increase its assortment of new and inline goods shown here. At the Jan. 26-30 show, the Canadian company will ...
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Humans cannot hope to survive life on Mars without plenty of protection from the surface radiation, freezing night temperatures and dust storms on the red planet. So they could be excused for marveling at humble Antarctic lichen that has ...
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During the abrupt cooling at the onset of the so-called Younger Dryas period 12680 years ago changes in the water cycle were the main drivers of widespread environmental change in western Europe. Thus, the regional impacts of future climate ...
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The EU will announce climate change targets for 2030 next week but sharp differences over priorities and an unwillingness to take the lead while global rivals hang back may result in a modest compromise deal. The 2020 programme is widely ...
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The record for the longest duration echo in a man-made structure has been decimated by a single shot from a blank loaded pistol—an amazing 112 seconds. It happened inside an oil storage tank buried in the hard rock of a hillside in ...
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The Chinese subsidiary of Haikui Seafood AG has successfully signed an agreement regarding the acquisition of land use rights with the local authorities in Dongshan, paving the way for the construction of its new production site. The ...
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In November last year, the price, calendar and seasonally adjusted industrial production in Germany increased 3.1 percent compared to the previous month, according to the preliminary data released by the German Federal Ministry for Economic ...
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German automaker Daimler is set invest EUR190m in its Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, Spain, for the production of medium-size vans. The production is expected to start in 2014. The company will primarily use the amount in the ...
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As projected, GDP in the Eurozone expanded by a meagre 0.1% in Q3 2013, as export growth fell sharply. Economic activity is expected to accelerate modestly over the forecast horizon (+0.2% in Q4 2013, +0.2% in Q1 2014 and +0.3% in Q2 2014) ...
Humans and some of our hominid ancestors such as Homo erectus have been walking for more than a million years, and researchers are close to figuring out how we do it. It's never been completely clear how human beings accomplish the ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that Germany-based ArcelorMittal Bremen has placed an order with SMS Logistiksysteme for the supply of a fully automated sampling station for X-grade line pipe steels, including a connected ...
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As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the German economy has indicated slower growth in 2013 as compared to the preceding years. The country's price, season and calendar adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in ...
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An experimental drug could eventually offer a new treatment option for genital herpes, a common and incurable sexually transmitted infection, researchers report. In a small study, researchers found that the drug -- called pritelivir -- ...