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Dear Patricia,
Welcome to our March issue of the Isla Earth
Radio Series e-Digest.
We're looking for some spectacular nature
photos that can be made into jigsaw puzzles
for future e-Digests. If you have an image we
could use, send it to us today!
| Chicken Litter |
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Forget Chicken Little's fears about the sky
falling -- chicken litter is the real problem. See
how researchers plan to take this concoction of
bedding, feathers, manure, and spilled feed and turn it
into useful energy products.
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| Smart Meters Save $$ |
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Wouldn't it be great if appliances were
"smart" enough to turn themselves off to
conserve energy or on when energy costs are
at their lowest during the day? Well, here's
a meter worth talking about.
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| The Clot Thickens |
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like
a murder mystery. Thousands die from strokes
and heart
attacks within 24 hours after jumps in
particulate matter air pollution. But no one
knew why, until now.
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| Shortcut Through The Sea |
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We learned in history class that the efforts
of explorers
to find the Northwest Passage, the shortcut
which
would link the Atlantic with the Pacific,
were futile.
Hundreds of years later, that shortcut,
courtesy of
climate change, is actually open to shipping.
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| Which Came First? The Hydrogen Or The Egg? |
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Hydrogen is a clean burning fuel. But, how do
you separate the hydrogen from the carbon
dioxide? Researchers say they have a partial
answer, egg shells.
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