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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.

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Recycling Expanded Polystyrene becomes a reality with Styroloop

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It’s almost mid-April, which means that it’s time we spoke to someone new who is making a positive difference to our environment. When I started to investigate this, I found out that EPS is not recycled, which I thought was appalling in today’s society, especially when we know the damage plastic pollution does. Meet Katie-May Boyd.

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