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ADB Study Finds Annual Economic Losses in Southeast Asia from Climate Change Could be More Than Twice the Global Average

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Climate change is exacerbating water shortages, constraining agricultural production and threatening food security, causing forest fires and coastal degradation, and increasing health risks. The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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Before we talk about how we might create such a zero-power monitoring system, let's review the basic components of a distributed sensor network. And then, with transmission complete and the triggering stimulus gone, the system would shut down and return to a sleep or fully powered-off state.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

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Here we are four months later: GM is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy , and its turnaround plan — which gave the Chevy Volt a central role – has gotten a less-than-rave review from the Obama administration. Earth2Tech] Omniture Launches Viral Video Measurement [NewTeeVee] Can New York Save Broadband?

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