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Hundreds of Miles of Wind Farms, Networked Under the Sea
On the Grid The Atlantic Wind Connection would link wind farms over hundreds of miles using undersea cables and voltage conversion stations. Kevin Hand During the last ice age, glaciers a mile high...
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Plastic Poo-Gloos Provide a Cheap, Bacteria-Based Sewage Solution
Poo Lagoon These "Poo-Gloos," which normally rest on the bottom of a wastewater pond, await installation. Bacteria living in the domes break down contaminates into compounds such as carbon dioxide....
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Saving the Seas: Smarter Hooks and Nets
Good News and Bad News Left globe: Acoustic pingers are warning porpoises away from gillnets [green.] Dynamite fishing has helped kill off Yangtze River dolphins. [red.] Right globe: Tuna fishermen...
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Saving the Seas: Bleaching Threatens Coral, But Phage Therapy Could Prevent...
The Damage Ninety percent of Australian and Indonesian reefs [red] are threatened by bleaching. Graham Murdoch In the past 20 years, nearly a third of the world's coral has been destroyed. Around 90...
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Saving the Seas: Fixing the Water Cycle Is the Key
Low Lifes Ocean "desert" areas, pinpointed on the map above, grew from 17 million square miles in 1998 to almost 20 million in 2007. Graham Murdoch As the atmosphere warms, the water cycle—the process...
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Saving the Seas: Protect Ecosystems by Outlawing Stowaway Creatures (or Just...
New Predators The lionfish, native to the South Pacific, arrived in the Atlantic in the 1980s. Millions now live there. OpenCage via WikimediaFifty years ago, if you pulled a mooring rope from the...
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Saving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones
Too Much Growth Synthetic fertilizer draining from farmland has helped create at least 405 near-lifeless patches of ocean worldwide. Fertilizer and sewage generate the growth of algae [above, green],...
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Garden Aids That Take the Irk out of Yard Work
Ground Crew The average American spends at least 40 hours a year working in the yard. Jeff Harris/Artmix Getting your lawn in shape after the spring thaw can mean many uncomfortable hours of lifting,...
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The Goods: May 2011's Hottest Gadgets
Tiny Tunes Razer's portable speakers fire sound straight up for room-filling sound Razer View Photo GalleryEvery month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These...
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Gallery: The Goods, May 2011
Dek ArrayImprove your odds in the wild with the SOL Origin survival kit. The palm-sized, 6.4-ounce set consists of 17 one-handed tools (including a knife, whistle, compass, signaling mirror, sparking...
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How a Blind Man Drove the Daytona Speedway, With the Help of Lasers
Laser Sensors and Cameras Send Data to a Computer in the Car Courtesy National Federation of the Blind/Virginia Tech Mark Anthony Riccobono, who is blind, drove a modified Ford Escape hybrid on the...
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We Asked Twelve Ocean Experts How to Save the Seas
Save Our Seas! Wikimedia Commons View Photo GallerySaving the oceans seems like an impossibly daunting task, one most people would have no idea how to even begin. So we asked 12 of the world's...
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Bodies In Motion: Exploring the Human Limits of Future Travel
Lateral Acceleration Going forward too fast is dangerous enough, but a sudden sideways knock can be deadly. Most airplanes' overhead bins can withstand up to 14 Gs of lateral acceleration, but humans...
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Dinosaur Digs, Particle Accelerators and Crash Tests: Eight Epic Summer...
Mind Trips Studio Liddell Amusement parks are so bland. This summer, take a brainier vacation— visit a particle accelerator, sail the Pacific aboard a marine research vessel, or watch simulations of...
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FYI: What's The Point Of Sex?
It Would Be So Much Easier to Clone Ourselves, Right? Bdelloid Rotifers, all-female animals that live in ponds, have reproduced without sex for millions of years. Diego Fontaneto via WikipediaThis may...
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As the atmosphere warms, the water cycle—the process by which seawater evaporates, rains down, and then evaporates again—will intensify. Everywhere, the ocean surface will…
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Fifty years ago, if you pulled a mooring rope from the waters off Cape Cod, it would have emerged covered with mussels, barnacles and algae. Today the lines would be coated…
View ArticleSaving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones
Marine pollution takes many forms, from the millions of gallons of oil that run off our highways each year to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive gyre of floating…
View ArticleGarden Aids That Take the Irk out of Yard Work
Getting your lawn in shape after the spring thaw can mean many uncomfortable hours of lifting, bending, stretching and sweating. These tools cut down on all that…
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Every month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These gadgets are the first, the best and the latest. Click here to see our favorite…
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