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Five New Hotels and Spas Built for Bathing

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In the ever-expanding wellness world, one of the latest trends is actually one of the oldest: soaking in, and sometimes drinking, therapeutic waters. In ancient Greece, physicians, including Hippocrates, prescribed mineral-rich baths to treat everything from skin diseases to insomnia. The benefits of bathing are incredible.”

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Biogas2PEM-FC project converts waste from olive oil production to electricity

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A three-part subsystem was developed; the primary step is an anaerobic digestion reaction to produce biogas from the olive mill waste; the second step is a reformer to convert the biogas to a hydrogen rich gas (reformate); and the last step is to pass the reformate gas to a fuel cell system to make electricity. Helbio, Greece.

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Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe

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Last year, large parts of southern Europe experienced prolonged periods of extreme heat with temperatures reaching 118 degrees and lasting up to two weeks or more. Last summer, while some parts of the continent were hot and dry, others were cold and wet. Walker recalled. “We

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UT Austin researchers successfully spoof yacht at sea with false GPS signals

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In June, the team was invited aboard the yacht White Rose of Drachs while it traveled from Monaco to Rhodes, Greece, on the Mediterranean Sea. The experiment took place about 30 miles off the coast of Italy as the yacht sailed in international waters. —Todd Humphreys.

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European Researchers Launch Mega Campaign to Assess Urban Air Pollution

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Université de Patras, Greece. The campaign is being carried out as part of the EU-funded MEGAPOLI (Megacities: emissions, urban, regional and global atmospheric pollution and climate effects, and integrated tools for assessment and mitigation) project. Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig, Germany. million (US$4.8

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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Some 29% of all historic seagrass meadows have been destroyed, mainly due to dredging and degradation of water quality. The research is part of the Blue Carbon Initiative, a collaborative effort of Conservation International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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Installation and maintenance is easier to accomplish in shallow waters. This creates a new need for well-designed subsea cables that can reach longer distances, survive in deeper waters, and better connect our world with sustainable power. Wind turbines for offshore wind farms are starting to be built further out into the ocean.

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