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Drought and conflict with farmers are threatening Bolivia's Andean bear — the real-life Paddington Bear. Beekeeping is a solution where everyone wins.Link to Original Source
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As the world rolls back on using coal to extract energy, it leaves behind empty coal mines. The BBC reports that the UK is actively to using these coal mines as a source of geo-thermal energy.
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While some enterprises have used sea-water for cooling, others are starting to use this for heating. and thereby cut back greatly on the carbon footprint of large facilities. What makes this technique even more fascinating is that a key component of this technology is carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas that has climate watchers so worried.
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Astronomers have always wanted bigger and better telescopes. Building such telescopes today come with many challenges that require high precision work to resolve. This story describes the design thinking that is being applied to the construction and deployment of the Giant Magellan Telescope