" By ALAN SAYRE AP Business Writer NEW ORLEANS — More than three-quarters of the Gulf of Mexico's offshore oil production had been cut off Saturday as energy companies evacuated petroleum platforms in the face of Hurricane Gustav. The federal Minerals Management...
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Beijing is running out of water according to an environmental group, and may have to start shutting down industry and moving population out within the next decade.This raises questions over the costs of China's...
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"A soil sample from the Martian arctic dug up by the Phoenix probe appears to be too firmly clumped to deliver any particles into the spacecraft's main test instrument, mission experts said.Apparently no testable...
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" Tons of earth-moving equipment and explosives have been flown to the site of the quake-created dam in southwestern China's Beichuan county. Engineers are attempting to create a spillway to relieve water pressure as the Jianjiang River fills in behind the massive pile of...
"An ingenious solution is helping Rwanda reduce the cost of running its bursting prisons, while improving conditions for the prisoners and helping protect the environment.The country’s prison population soared...
"Tuesday, December 11, 2007
By Sheila Grissett
St. Bernard residents who fear that their property will be cannibalized to help feed a voracious demand for levee-building clay were assured by Army Corps of...
This is really wild. I like the phrase "seasonal storage in rock". It just sounds so rad. "solar-heated water from the summer months will be stored 65 meters underground in "60,000 m3 of crystalline rock," complete with "100 boreholes... fitted with double U-pipes."
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Is this really news??----------------------------------------"July 19, 2007 -- ACCLAIMED "Goodfellas" actor Paul Sorvino and his playwright daughter, Amanda, are up to their necks in deep doo-doo, now that a...
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"For more than three years, the International Space Station has floated half- built above the Earth. Maintained by a skeleton crew, the station - an assemblage of modules and girders - has not come close to its stated goal of becoming a world-class research...
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