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MOgene Green Chemicals Awarded $1.5 Million from U.S. Department of Energy to develop energy-dense transportation fuel from natural gas

MOgene been selected to develop a technology that will convert natural gas into energy-dense transportation fuel at a more affordable […]

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Study Warns Against China’s Synthetic Natural Gas Plants

Nature World: Coal-powered synthetic natural gas plants currently being planned for construction in China would produce seven times more greenhouse […]

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Experts Eye IPCC Reform as Report Nears Release

Climate Central: On Friday, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a major portion of its latest […]

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Cuckoo fools host with multiple eggs

Cuckoo finches lay multiple eggs in the nests of other birds to make it harder to detect the ‘imposters’, researchers […]

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Smart Link Successfully Launches Phase One of the National Contact Center for Saudi’s e-Government Program

mart Link BPO Solutions & Contact Centers, a member of Al Khaleej Training and Education Group, announced on the 83rd […]

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Red Hat Reports Second Quarter Results

Total revenue of $374 million, up 16% year-over-year.

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Red Hat and dotCloud Collaborate on Docker to Bring Linux Container Enhancements to OpenShift PaaS

Collaboration aims to bring developers simpler, more secure, lightweight, and portable environments for applications.

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Comguard to Offer Ixia Network Visibility Products in Middle East

Comguard partners with Ixia to offer solutions that will revolutionize the way enterprises and service providers monitor their networks.

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Zimbabwe elephants killed by cyanide

Poachers are blamed after more than 80 elephants are poisoned with industrial cyanide in Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park.

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Two more oil spills caused by flooding in Colorado

Associated Press: A total of 27,000 gallons of oil – the equivalent of about two storage tanks – have been […]

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Pro-coal Democrats distance themselves from Obama on power-plant proposal

Greenwire: Coal state Democrats, especially those in tough races, have emerged as among the loudest critics to the Obama administration’s […]

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Mars hopper concept ‘is feasible’

A UK team develops further its idea for a Mars “hopper” – a robot that can bound across the surface […]

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Common rights ‘can save fisheries’

Collective community-based rights could put the world’s fisheries on a sustainable footing after decades of over-exploitation, an expert suggests.

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New Children’s Books "Your Inside Shape" and "Who’s Going to Be You?" Written to Inspire an Appreciation for Individuality in Kids

Two New Books Focus on Helping Kids Aged 4 to 11 Build Self-Confidence.

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UN Think Tank Taps UAE Expertise

DCCE to contribute local and regional knowledge to formulating solutions for key common global development challenges.

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Impact of imaging and robotics on accelerating scientific discovery will be the focus of the Danforth Center’s Annual Fall Symposium

Special presentation by St. Louis Cardinals adds unique angle to scientific event.

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Estuate Collaborates with Canon CIIS to Support Delivery of Enterprise Imaging Platform

“Estuate Inc., a gold level Oracle partner today announced its affiliation with Canon Information and Imaging Solutions, Inc. (CIIS), a […]

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ACS’s ACR89 Helps Streamline Labor-Related Processes in Middle Eastern Country

The ACR89, a handheld smart card reader with PIN-pad, was chosen by a Middle Eastern central bank to enable a […]

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Norway ditches ‘moon landing’ carbon capture project

BusinessGreen: Norway has abandoned plans to build a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant at the Mongstad refinery, curtailing […]

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Aid groups warn of growing hunger and disease as planet warms

Independent: The potentially devastating effects of climate change on future generations are revealed today by two British aid groups, before […]

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Pause ‘central’ to climate report

A 15-year slow down in temperature increases is said to be at the heart of a key report on climate […]

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Scientists map UK ash tree genome

Scientists have mapped the genome of the native ash tree, in research to find a way to protect woodlands from […]

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Environmental Hygienists Association Open New Hygienist Training Center for USA & Canada

The Environmental Hygienists Association announces the opening of its Midwestern USA EHA Training Center to train Environmental Hygienist and Industrial […]

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Challenges Await Plan to Reduce Emissions

New York Times: The Obama administration’s potentially pathbreaking proposal for carbon emission limits on new power plants will face political […]

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Administration to Press Ahead With Carbon Limits

New York Times: The Obama administration on Friday announced that it was not backing down from a confrontation with the […]

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Norway abandons carbon capture plans

The outgoing government in Norway buries much-vaunted plans to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground amid mounting costs and […]

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Documents reveal Army Corps’ earlier concerns about coal trains & wetlands

KUOW: Proposals to make the Northwest a major coal exporting region have made for a familiar debate over the potential […]

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Oil spills in flood-hit Colorado raise concerns over industry regulation

Al Jazeera: At least two large oil spills have been confirmed in the wake of Colorado’s historic floods — with […]

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Spiny rat discovered in Indonesia

A new genus of rodent is found in the remote forests of Indonesia’s Moluccas islands, where Wallace developed his theory […]

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‘Ambitious’ plan for High Peak Moors

The National Trust launches its “most ambitious” Peak District conservation project, in an attempt to repair decades of damage to […]

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