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American conservationists have a new reason to celebrate an important victory. Obama has decided to reject the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline project, proposed by TransCanada.
His announcement has pleased all environmentally friendly groups, stating that the pipeline carrying oil from the Canadian tar sands to ... |
19 January 2012
02:41 GMT |
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A hazardous compound utilized as a key element in designing a lethal weapon used during the Vietnam war could end up in American farms, if a controversial petition is approved by the government. Apparently, Dow AgroScience, LLC is asking the American Government to deregulate a species of genetically engineered cor... |
27 December 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Nowadays, money helps us get almost anything we want. Luxurious cars, large houses, land on the Moon? Done. An ingenious artists proves that the possibilities are endless, by designing a broom made of dollar bills. Mark Wagner is the talented American artist, writer and publisher behind this project and the spectacul... |
15 December 2011
11:14 GMT |
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Most of the auto companies are aware that new projects have to focus on sustainability and green improvements to please a larger segment of clients.
Even though a 2018 deadline is still far away, Mazda is ready to reveal its ambitious goal. It seems that the enterprise will be ready to launch a new electric vehicle... |
15 December 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Chevrolet has launched a program aiming to support landfills exploiting garbage and turning it into valuable energy. Its Carbon Initiative backs the Rockingham County (Virginia) Landfill operations that capture methane and destroy it, or use it to provide affordable power. Garbage decomposes in landfills, emitting ... |
15 December 2011
07:51 GMT |
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After two decades of attempts, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally started to annihilate the environmental threats posed by our own refrigerators.
It has succeeded in adopting a new regulation making eco-friendly refrigeration gases legal in the US, meant to replace the traditional option represen... |
15 December 2011
04:31 GMT |
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China is scaling up efforts to green up transportation. Yesterday, the super power succeeded in opening its first automatic battery switching station destined for electric vehicles, in an attempt of raising the popularity and profit margins of the market.
China has struggled to satisfy the demand of the owners of e... |
13 December 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Big American power plants keep disrupting the balance of residents, through the overwhelming amount of toxic pollutants they emit, like lead, mercury, nickel or arsenic.
The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) has managed to identify the first 20 major players responsible for low air quality and has revealed th... |
10 December 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Most of the eco-conscious people from Maryland are far from being pleased with what Miss Maryland is wearing. The prize she obtained after winning the pageant is an expensive, luxurious fur coat that makes PETA activists feel like fainting. Last week, when she arrived at the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown for a hi... |
7 December 2011
09:50 GMT |
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It seems that the US inhabitants have learned the lesson of environmental preservation. According to a recent study, 73% of the Americans are aware of the most important challenges the environment currently experiences. More important, 58% of the people from the US recycle and 29% purchase eco-friendly products freq... |
30 November 2011
10:57 GMT |
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The American government has decided to give the green light to horse slaughtering, after it dismissed a previous ban adopted five years ago, that stopped federal money from backing the inspection of misfortunate horses waiting to be slaughtered. According to a regulation issued by USDA's Food Safety and Inspec... |
30 November 2011
08:47 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the Stanford University and the Brown University discovered in a new genetic analysis that the development of populations in the Americas was slowed down compared to that of people in Europe and Asia due to the continent's geographical position and orientation.
Experts spec... |
19 September 2011
07:41 GMT |
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According to a new research paper, archaeologists recently discovered the oldest mine in the Americas. The iron oxide mine has been found in Chile, and initial studies estimate its age at around 12,000 years. Details of the discovery were listed in a report published in the June issue of the journal Current Anthropol... |
19 May 2011
11:02 GMT |
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An announcement made solely for Latin American Apple fans reveals that Cupertino is gearing up to ship iPad tablet computers to five additional territories tomorrow.Specifically, the iPad is coming to Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in both WiFi and 3G form.A Google-translated version of the announcement... |
16 September 2010
04:22 GMT |
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In a recent survey, researchers at the University of Michigan showed that, while many Americans remain united on some core values, they are still very much divided on some sensitive issues.These include immigration laws, religious beliefs, gay marriages, stem cells research and universal healthcare, among other thorn... |
24 August 2010
10:49 GMT |
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The giant mobile-phone manufacturer Nokia has launched the Nokia E73 Mode smartphone in the United States. This is the first new Eseries device made especially for a United States carrier and it will be available exclusively for T-Mobile customers. Intended to be a cross-over device, the E73 Mode includes Nokia&rsquo... |
4 June 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Samsung Telecommunications America, currently one of the largest mobile-phone providers in the United States, and InfoLogix Inc. have signed a partnership and will collaborate on delivering mobile services to their customers across North America. Together, the two companies will offer Samsung's handsets with Inf... |
17 May 2010
15:01 GMT |
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I'm sure you may have heard the growing claims that the course of events in motion in the United States offer excellent premises for the installation of a Fascist rule and a police state. In this piece, I will not attempt to persuade anyone that this is or is not the case, but provide a view of status-quo fr... |
9 January 2010
13:01 GMT |
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This is a continuation of Part 1, an article dealing with the alleged rise of Fascism in America. If you have any comments and opinions as to whether this article is accurate or on point, I ask that you state them in the comments section. I am very interested in knowing what you, the readers, think about the issues t... |
9 January 2010
13:01 GMT |
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As far as a single nation and official involvement goes, America is without a doubt the most active country from a military standpoint. And above everything else, wars need soldiers. The old “Uncle Sam wants you!” line doesn't really work anymore, so the Army had to catch up with the times. The way i... |
9 December 2009
05:49 GMT |
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President Barack Obama reasserted his trust in science as the only means of averting future economic crises in his radio address on Saturday, saying that long-term investments in research were the only things that could ensure a sustainable and strong economy. Results will not be visible right away, and the fact that... |
3 August 2009
01:59 GMT |
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While mountains generally look like they've been there for ages, in some cases that's not true – at least as far as geology goes. Through the nature of their profession, geologists look at things that are, for instance, 120 million years old and say that they are fairly young. Such is the case with th... |
16 June 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Leading a healthy lifestyle should not be considered by most people to be a burden, or to be a sacrifice that they have to make by refusing to eat junk food and drink all types of soda. A healthy lifestyle is the way to go, and people gorging themselves in fast food restaurant all day long should not be considered th... |
28 May 2009
07:02 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, mobile phone users in North America will soon be able to enjoy yet another handset that is able to offer something more than most of the crowd would do. We're talking about the new LG GM630, a mobile phone that is able to provide users with TV while they are on the go. T... |
30 March 2009
03:44 GMT |
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The Ancient Pre-Columbian Society of the Supe, which reigned supremely in a part of modern-day Peru in a period of time stretching from approximately 3000 to 1800 BC, is now believed to have been annihilated by a devastating series of natural disasters, including earthquakes and massive floods, which forced the popul... |
20 January 2009
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AT&T, North America's largest mobile operator, has announced that it will offer a $1 million grant for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), US' biggest youth organization. Granted via the AT&T Foundation, the $1 million will be used by BSA in creating a Leadership Development Center in San Antonio, Texas. ... |
31 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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More than 500 fossils of teeth and bones belonging to species of rodents, horses, crocodiles and turtles found near the Panama Canal, dated to have lived as far as 20 million years ago could provide some information regarding the period when the North and South American continents became connected to each other, say ... |
18 July 2008
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Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter is ready to talk as soon as a new high success game is released and could, sometimes, have some really controversial opinions. This time, he talked about the Wii Fit shortage all over the world (and especially in North America) and knows why Nintendo does not do its b... |
3 June 2008
12:06 GMT |
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It is becoming increasingly clear now that people inhabited Americas earlier than what has been previously believed. A study published in April, based on human coprolites (fossilized feces) found in a cave in Oregon, came up with a date for the remains, of about 14,300 years, which is with more than 1,000 years earli... |
9 May 2008
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All the anthropologic manuals talk about the Clovis people as the first Native Americans. But South American fossils show that the continent was already inhabited by Asian Blacks (the type of the Papuans and Australian Aborigines) by the time Clovis entered North America. And a new research published in the journal "... |
4 April 2008
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We all know the theory that Native Americans came from Siberia. So far, we have had archaeological and genetic proofs for this. Now, we have the first linguistic link: a nearly extinct language of central Siberia has a common origin with one of the largest groups of Native American languages, Na Dene, spoken thousa... |
27 March 2008
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What does Latino mean? A new genetic analysis published in the online journal PLoS Genetics explains: 50% White from the father's side and 50% Amerindian or Black from the mother's side. The research investigated the ancestry across Latin America and even if a significant differentiation between regions was... |
25 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Of course, it was not Gitche Manitou their creator. All the Red Skins, from those of North America to those of South America, came from Asia. A new DNA study published in the journal "PLoS One" shows that 6 women founded about 95% of the populations of the modern Native Americans, 20,000 years ago."The finding does n... |
14 March 2008
03:48 GMT |
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One of the most primitive human groups on Earth were the native inhabitants of the Tierra del Fuego ("Land of Fire") island, at the southern tip of South America, a stormy, cold and inhospitable area, discovered by Magellan in 1520. The weather is cloudy almost all year long and violent storms are accompanied by trem... |
11 March 2008
16:51 GMT |
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We know that beer was first testified 5,000 years ago in the Old World, in the ancient Sumer (now southern Iraq) and Egypt. But the ancient Native Americans did not stay dry till the arrival of the Europeans. A new research, presented at the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston, revealed that Pueblo Indians b... |
3 January 2008
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Yahoo!, the Internet giant company, and one of America's top mobile phone company, America Movil, have shaken hands in order to bring more mobility to the world. The two companies have teamed up in a deal that would provide mobile Web services in 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.America Movil will... |
21 December 2007
03:04 GMT |
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This is what happens when the people hired to be creative are not efficient enough. Probably Telus didn't think about this possibility when it named one of its own services "My Faves".Yes, not a big problem there, but T-Mobile named one of its own services "myFaves", before Telus has. True, they look very simil... |
20 December 2007
04:32 GMT |
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You could not put this one into an armadillo race. In fact, you could not hold it. That's because ancient armadillos were really big. Now, an American team has described in the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" a new large fossil species based on a partial skeleton discovered up in the Andes in northern Chile... |
13 December 2007
05:23 GMT |
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They can send you to hell and maybe back (we don't know for sure), but it's hard to imagine modern Latin American cuisine without chili peppers. But also the Hungarian or other cuisines for that matter. Chili peppers (Capsicum species) originated in South America. They were cultivated and traded in the Ame... |
6 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Their legends say they were created from earth, water and stars. DNA says they came in what is now Alaska, Canada, US coming from Siberia through a land bridge called Behringia. Older western movies depicted them as wild and cruel. But in fact they were victims of the entrance in their territory of the greediest pred... |
27 November 2007
18:18 GMT |
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There is a vivid debate if Native Americans from both South America and North America entered the continent in a single wave 12,000 years ago coming from Siberia through the Bering Strait land bridge or whether ancient Americans also came from other Asian areas or Polynesia, coming by sea as well as by land, starting... |
27 November 2007
02:56 GMT |
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There were three great civilizations in America before its discovery by the Europeans: Aztec, Inca and Maya; but Maya was by far the most advanced culturally and artistically. Maya civilization developed in the area where nowadays we have Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and southern Mexico, in a mountain area of tro... |
10 November 2007
03:47 GMT |
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This is really something I've never see before! You know those "Miss X" contests where, after showing all their talents and looks, the gorgeous women are asked what is it that they would like to change in this world? Well, I'm sure you're quite familiar with all the possible answers to that question, s... |
8 October 2007
03:08 GMT |
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The land of all possibilities might just fail to meet the mobile phone demand that people in the US will make. The crisis is expected to come in the fourth quarter of this year, as a result of an ambiguous reason.These results come from a study recently conducted by Matthew Hoffman, an analyst from Cowen research com... |
22 September 2007
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It was long believed for a long time that the Amerindians met by the Europeans in the 15th century in the Americas were the first inhabitants of the New World and that 12,000 years ago, three waves of Proto-Mongoloid migratory people crossed the Behring area to the Americas. But new and not so new discoveries reveale... |
31 August 2007
14:46 GMT |
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I was just browsing the Internet in search of some material when I ended up on this guy's blog where I found a story about a Russian hacker. Then I went and read more on WJS' site. This guy was pretty smart while on the computer, but I'm sorry I cant say the same about real life. First, this Russian du... |
23 August 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Namco Bandai of America has recently made the exciting announcement that they've released the official demo for Eternal Sonata, on Xbox LIVE. Silver and Gold members (oi thank you...!) are able to get the much anticipated demo via Xbox LIVE's Marketplace. The full game launches September 17th this year, for... |
8 August 2007
04:44 GMT |
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Chicken preceded Christopher Columbus when it comes to setting foot in America. We know Vikings stepped into the New World too, but they were not the first outsiders. Recently dug chicken bones on the coast of Chile have been dated before Columbus' "discovery" of America and their DNA matched fowls breeds of Pol... |
5 June 2007
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Quite a strange prediction coming from Nintendo of America's marketing chief, George Harrison, who believes that the PS3's slow start should ensure that more advanced consoles won't leave a good impression either, over the next 5 years, in an interview with Wired."There's a price point and there&#... |
29 May 2007
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It looks like the Beta for Sony's PlayStation Home Service is under way. PS3 Fanboy is reporting that the option for downloading the North American version of the Home beta, as well as launching it has been spotted in the PlayStation Store.Images to your left will do little to enlighten you on the issue. Howeve... |
4 May 2007
05:49 GMT |
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