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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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Lives and businesses are being severely affected, and the cost of recovering after each event continues to mount. The microbes and minerals in soil systems regulate water, cycle nutrients, filter pollutants, physically support plants, and sequester greenhouse gasses. IoT food container tags can reduce food and water waste.

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USGS-led study finds that recent unusual snowpack declines in the Rockies may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to temperature as dominant influence

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anthropogenic warming by decadal variability.Together these events. regional water supplies. Runoff from winter snowpack accounts for 60% to 80% of the annual water supply for more than 70 million people living in the western United States. may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to. —Pederson et al.

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2018 VW Tiguan and new 2.0 TSI B-cycle engine gives VW a strong offering in compact SUV segment

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The core element of the new engine is a new combustion process combining short intake events with a high compression ratio. Based on our half-day of driving the new Tiguan in the foothills of Denver, the automaker has succeeded on the quality front. This is the only engine/transmission combination available in the Tiguan in the US.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. There were 30 or 40 nodes on the ARPANET at the time.

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