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The biofuel debate

Optimism over biofuels is tempered by concerns over their economic viability and their implications for socio-economic development, food security and environmental sustainability, the United Nations’s (UN) 2014 World Water Development Report....
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$27.6 million to construct new landfill in Ethiopia

Addis Ababa City Administration will construct a large sanitary landfill in Sendafa town. The city is offering up a $27.6 million international tender to construct the landfill which will cover an area of 136ha. Once complete it will be devoted to...
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Californium has potential to store radioactive waste

A team of chemists has found that the element californium could change how the world stores radioactive waste and recycles fuel. Using carefully choreographed experiments, the researchers found that californium had the ability to bond and separate...