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Researchers observe effects of oil spill on Gulf
The oil spill at the deepwater drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico has had unexpected results for a number of people, including scientists at U. Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Allen promotes ‘good food revolution’
Milwaukee urban farmer Will Allen has a few million volunteers working on his farm. If you count the worms, that is. Allen, one of TIME Magazine’s “100 most influential people in the world,” spoke to a large crowd gathered Thursday at Indiana U.
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MIT nuclear reactor trains students in safe management of complex systems
Brian K. Baum calls his job “essentially glorified babysitting,” but he’s not watching over his neighbor’s kids. Instead, he is one of a small group of undergraduates who operates MIT’s nuclear reactor.
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BP: ‘There aren’t any plumes’
When U. South Florida researchers aboard the research vessel R/V Weatherbird II announced that they had discovered an oil plume below the ocean surface, they thought that they had made a monumental discovery.
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Column: It’s not the fault of oil companies
I will be unavailable for interviews, e-mail or phone calls — there’s no Internet on K-2 or Base Station Alpha — until I decide the consequences of my writing this have blown over, so don’t even try to speak to, or at, me. So, here is how I see it.
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Possible biomass plant leaves southern Indiana in conflict
The ongoing battle over whether to site the first biomass incinerator plant in Indiana doesn’t seem like it will end anytime soon. Liberty Green Renewables, LLC, an Indiana-based company, made a proposal in January 2009 to build a 28-megawatt facility in Crawford, Ind.
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Cotton technology could prove useful in Gulf oil cleanup
Texas Tech U’s Seshadri Ramkumar has created a cotton-carbon fabric that may be used in the cleaning efforts of the April 2010 British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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U. Houston holds global forum on energy
The U. Houston Center for Public History recently held lectures to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of living in modern energy capitals. Two Houston professors led the lectures, which drew experts from around the globe.
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Professors, students react to oil spill in Gulf
“I think we are witnessing one of the USA’s worst ecological disasters ever,” Linda Walters, professor of biology at U. Central Florida, said about the oil rig explosion of April 20. “The damaged area will extend for many hundreds to thousands of miles and will persist for many, many years.
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