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CUPE member faces charges over confrontation with trash dumper

WINDSOR, Ont. -- A 51-year-old CUPE worker is facing charges of theft under $5,000 after she allegedly

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Mumbai faces acute water shortage

The Indian city of Mumbai faces water rationing for the first time in living memory as supplies are hit by poor monsoon rain.

Combined Heat & Power Greenhouse : TreeHugger
Greenouse tomatoes. Image credit:Garden of Eaden How many tomatoes can a power plant grow, if a power plant could grow plants? Great Northern Hydroponics, has installed a GE Energy designed, 12-megawatt commercial power plant at a 55-acre tomato greenhouse

Concrete columns with internal bars made of glass fibers can make a building sturdier

Conventional means of internal reinforcement for concrete member in buildings involve steel bars. Yet for structures that function in harsh environments like coastal regions, or for structures that support sensitive equipment, such as magnetic resonance imaging units; the use of fiber reinforced polymer ...

Permaculture in Palestine: Bustan Qaraaqa Greens the Hills Outside Bethlehem : TreeHugger

For a group of British ecologists working in development organizations in the West Bank, researching the sorry state of the Palestinian environment became, at some point, rather unsatisfying. “We wanted to move from writing reports on environmental destruction and

Vaccinating With Remembee Against Bee Colony Collapse Disorder : TreeHugger

With the deadly swine flu, bird flu and bee colony collapse disorder it kind of makes you feel like nature is biting back. Some good news for at least one of the big problems: the Israeli company Beeologics has

Inexpensive Arsenic Filtration System Based on Cattails Could Help Clean Up the Drinking Water of 57 Million People : TreeHugger

Photos: Jon Clark/Flickr, CC Awesome Discovery! According to the World Health Organization's fact sheet about arsenic in drinking water, there are between 46-57 million people globally who are exposed to levels of arsenic higher than the 'safe' 0.01 mg/l.

Cities Like Seoul Rediscover Waterways They Paved Over - NYTimes.com

Cities from San Antonio to Singapore are resuscitating waterways that once lay buried under rivers of concrete.

Video: Moth Blocks Bat Attack by Jamming Sonar | Wired Science | Wired.com
Navy engineers aren't the only ones who can jam sonar. Scientists have discovered a species of tiger moth that thwarts hungry bats by emitting extra-loud

Potential Neurotoxin Could Be in Our Food | Wired Science | Wired.com

Long after a potentially neurotoxic flame retardant is off the market, it could linger in our food chain. One of the most comprehensive analyses yet of

Using Scientific Tools in an International War on Fake Drugs - NYTimes.com

A doctor is applying mass spectrometers to find counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs, especially in poorer countries, where government regulation is weak.

Young men living at home with parents are more violent

Young men who stay at home with their parents are more violent than those who live independently, according to new research at Queen Mary, University of London.

New life histories emerge for invasive wasps, magnify ecological harm

A switch from annual to multiyear colonies and a willingness to feed just about any prey to their young have allowed invasive yellowjacket wasps to disrupt native populations of insects and spiders on two Hawaiian islands, a new study has found.

Mysterious, Glowing Clouds Appear Across America’s Night Skies | Wired Science | Wired.com

Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in Earth's polar regions have appeared in the skies over the United States and Europe over the

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