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NOAA: Global Combined Land and Ocean Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest for September

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below the 1979-2000 average, and the 13 th consecutive September with below-average Arctic sea ice extent. above the 1979-2000 average. Typhoon Ketsana became 2009’s second-deadliest tropical cyclone so far, claiming nearly 500 lives across the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Arctic sea ice covered an average 2.1

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Trial operation of buses with the goal of operating the first community buses in Vietnam, and conducting educational activities.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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The study reveals that between 2000 and 2010, the population of East-Southeast Asia grew by 231 million people; if this were the population of a single country, it would be the fifth most populous country in the world. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. —Professor Schneider.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By 1968 student hostility to the government over the Vietnam War was growing and life for researchers on campus who, like Hoff, relied on government funding was looking as if it might get uncomfortable. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.”

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