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  • Dubai makes $350 million off the environment

    Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) Dubai: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority's conservation initiative saved Dh16 million in electricity and water, it was announced at the eighth Conservation Award for the educational sector.Along with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) jointly honoured the efforts of individuals ...

  • UBD To Plant Trees For Green Wave Campaign

    View Comments Bandar Seri Begawan - Universiti Brunei Darussalam will be holding a tree planting activity tomorrow (May 22) at the university campus to mark its Green Wave campaign, according to a press release. The Green Wave is a multi-year campaign to raise awareness on biodiversity that contributes to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) programme of work on Communication, Education ...

  • Why Did Penguins Stop Flying The Answer Is Evolutionary

    leopard seals at the water's edge would also be easier if penguins could take flight-so scientists have often wondered why and how the birds lost that ability. A popular theory of biomechanics suggests that the birds' once-flight-adapted wings simply became more and more efficient for swimming and eventually lost their ability to get penguins off the ground. More efficient diving, on ...

  • A Tornado Chaser Talks About His Science and Craft

    While officials start to tally injuries, wrecked homes, and upturned lives, tornado researchers and chasers are swinging into high gear. Despite a suite of sophisticated instruments at their disposal, ...

  • 7-Eleven finds convenient business environment

    /enpproperty--> Megumu Ubasako, chairman of 7-Eleven (Chengdu) Co Ltd, has made the capital of Sichuan province his home. "I am already a local here," said the 57-year-old Japanese national, joking that he feels like a business traveler when he returns to his home in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo every year. His affection for the city is partly due to the family like ...


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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [Blu-Ray]

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [Blu-Ray]

One of the running gags throughout Kevin Smiths fifth and (supposedly) final Jersey movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, is that it is a dumb idea to make a movie centered around Jay and Silent Bob. The whole movie is a kind of outlandish, self-reflexive, ... ...

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  • Deep Sea Mining Economic Bonanza or Environmental Boondoggle

    This computer generated image from Lockheed Martin suggests how the company could mine manganese nodules from the sea floor, using underwater vehicles that vacuum up nodules and transport them to a ship on the ocean surface. (Source: Lockheed ...

  • REUTERS SUMMIT-Argentina seeks U.S. environmental okay on biodiesel

    Mon May 20, 2013 5:19pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) BUENOS AIRES May 20 (Reuters) - Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to that market and revitalize a local industry in "crisis" due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday. The head of ...

  • Saloon bar politics by Ukip could harm Britains climate change credibility and drag Tories to right on environment warns minister

    The rise of Ukip risks fuelling climate change scepticism as Conservative politicians embrace the populist "saloon bar" politics of Nigel Farage's party, the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, has ...

  • Country diary Coombs Dale Derbyshire

    The high limestone country north of Longstone Edge has its own strange energy, a consequence perhaps of the quarrying there, both ancient and modern. The land is scarred and nicked, like the face of a veteran fighter, a blue-collar countryside.It's also rich with tales of horror, now recruited for the purposes of tourism. The notorious highwayman Black Harry, hanged at nearby Wardlow Mires, ...

  • Environmental Working Groups 2013 sunscreen guide takes aim at high SPFs

    The Environmental Working Group is warning that some sunscreens may not protect people as well as they might have thought. The consumer watchdog's latest annual report of sunscreens comes at a time when beach goers can expect to see new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products easier to use. Despite those long-awaited changes mandated by the Food and Drug ...

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