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Climate Change Could Cause Chocolate Shortage

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  • September 30, 2011

A new report from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. a funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, found that West Africa, where half of the world’s cocoa supply comes from, is becoming less and less suitable for cocoa production a…

A Better Plastic


Researchers at the University of Leeds and Durham University have solved a long-standing problem that could revolutionize the way new plastics are developed.
The breakthrough will allow experts to create the perfect plastic with specific uses and pro…

Germany Covers Old Pit Mine with World’s Largest Solar Park

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  • September 29, 2011

A new section added onto a huge solar park in Eastern Germany now makes it the largest solar park in the world, but the more interesting fact about this section is that it was built over an old pit mine that had rendered that land useless for years.
Th…

Finding Planets


There are many worlds out there and NASA has a lot of data that it has not reviewed in the depth that is needed to search every star for its worlds and the evidence there of. A project in which volunteers hunt online for new planets NASA may have miss…

2011 Solar Decathlon Underway

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  • September 29, 2011

It’s autumn, and the annual Solar Decathlon is underway (through October 2nd). After being highlighted on the National Mall for several years, this year, the contestants are instead located in West Potomac Park, near the Roosevelt and Jefferson Memor…

Major fire shuts most of Shell Singapore refinery


Royal Dutch Shell Plc has shut most of its half-a-million barrels-per-day Singapore refinery, sources said, as firefighters struggle to contain a blaze that has been burning for more than a day.

The plant is the largest Shell o…

MIT Battery Startup Likes Liquidity


The ’503 Application is entitled Alkaline Earth Metal Ion Battery and is directed to an alkaline earth metal ion energy storage cell (10) which contains three liquid constituents: two liquid electrodes and a liquid electrolyte. More particularly, th…

China May Surpass U.S. Per Capita Carbon Emission Levels By 2017

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  • September 28, 2011

A new report form the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency says that China’s per capita carbon emissions are rising at such a pace that the country could reach, or even surpass, U.S. levels by 2017.
The report states that China’s per capita carb…

China May Surpass U.S. Per Capita Carbon Emission Levels By 2017

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  • September 28, 2011

A new report form the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency says that China’s per capita carbon emissions are rising at such a pace that the country could reach, or even surpass, U.S. levels by 2017.
The report states that China’s per capita carb…

Obama administration to push back fuel efficiency standards


The Obama administration will push back the release of the most ambitious proposal ever for automakers to improve fuel efficiency of their passenger cars, sport utility vehicles and pickups.

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