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Green on the Green: The Most Environmentally Friendly Golf Courses
The cost of keeping a golf course looking good has traditionally required massive amounts of water, fertilizers, and toxic pesticides that have been doing great damage to the environment. But as susta...
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Belo Monte Dam in Brazil to become 3rd largest dam in the world!
With engineers calling it "the most daring project under way in Brazil", the Belo Monte Dam in Amazonia, will have a year operating capacity of 4,500 megawatts, which was rediced to a third of its ini...
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China Considering Railway Under Mount Everest
China is considering an extension of a railway line that will link the country of Nepal via a tunnel under Mount Everest. This is according to Chinese state media. There is serious skepticism as to wh...
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First US offshore wind farm under construction!
The construction of the first offshore wind farm has just started on US ground in Block Island , a small island 13 miles south of Rhode Island, last Monday. Upon completion, the wind farm will supply...
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Eshima Ohashi bridge in Japan designed for the brave!
The Eshima Ohashi Bridge in Japan, can surely catch the driver's attention and even discourage some from crossing it, especially when seen directly facing the two-lanes of traffic. The Eshima O...
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China Continues Extreme Investment in Africa
Worth a total of almost $5.5 billion, the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has signed two railway construction deals in Africa. CRCC is tasked with building a $3.5 billion intercity railw...
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Video: old tires converted to eco-friendly homes in Colombia!
In Colombia, people have invented a new alternative green construction method for their homes, using old tires. Small buildings resembling igloos are becoming more and more frequent in the outskirts o...
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Architects Design Buildings that Cast no Shadow
A London-based architecture firm says it can eliminate the shadows that buildings cast over urban areas starved of sunlight. The firm devised a plan to build paired skyscrapers in such a way that sunl...
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Fehmarn Belt will be Longest Tunnel in the World
Slated at $10 billion, construction on the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link could start as early as this year. At 11 miles long, the completed project will be the longest immersed tunnel in the world. It will...
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State of Oklahoma Acknowledges Drilling is Responsible for Earthquakes
The state of Oklahoma’s energy and environment cabinet unveiled a new website this week that hosts scholarly articles and an interactive map of earthquake and injection well locations. The concl...
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