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Climate change means shortfalls in Colorado River water deliveries
Apr 20, 2009 |
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The Colorado River system supplies water to tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland, and has never experienced a delivery shortage. But if human-caused climate change continues to make ...
Quagga mussels are clogging Hoover Dam, colonizing lakes and rivers
Mar 02, 2009 |
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It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless ...
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Dam removal increases property values
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Two new studies appearing in Contemporary Economic Policy explore the impact of dam removal on local property values and find that property values increase after dams are removed.
Three Gorges Dam shrinking Yangtze delta
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 21, 2007 |
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Chinese scientists have determined how China's Three Gorges Dam -- the world's largest dam -- affects downstream sediment delivery in the Yangtze River.
Extremophile Hunt Begins
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on ...
China's great dam in midst of eco-debate
Nov 19, 2007 |
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The year-old Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze River has spawned environmental problems such as water pollution and landslides, Chinese officials admitted.
China aims to build 'Three Gorges of wind power'
Jun 25, 2009 |
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China is aiming to build a huge wind farm in the northwest by 2020 that will have energy capacity similar to the gigantic Three Gorges Dam, a senior official said Thursday.
NASA satellites watch as China constructs giant dam
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Some call it the eighth wonder of world. Others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam along China’s Yangtze River will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator and ...
Apolipoprotein(a): A natural regulator of inflammation
Dec 24, 2008 |
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In a study to be published in the January 09 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Hoover-Plow and co-workers in seeking to define a role of apo(a) in leukocyte recruitment have identified a novel activity of apo(a) ...
Study documents evidence of 'mafia' behavior in cowbirds
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Mar 05, 2007 |
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“The Sopranos” have some competition — brown-headed cowbirds. Cowbirds have long been known to lay eggs in the nests of other birds, which then raise the cowbirds’ young as their own. Sneaky, perhaps, but not ...
PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.
Model analysis helps protect river's ecosystem
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2008 |
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The Grand Canyon will be experiencing a spring of yesteryear, as water flow rates from the Glen Canyon Dam will be significantly increased, then throttled back in a high-flow experiment that runs March 4 through ...
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