Russian firms hope to build an orbiting hotel in space by 2016. The firms RKK Energia and Orbital Technologies have announced their plans to enter the space tourism race. Space tourism is gaining a fair amount of interest in the U.S. from corporations suc
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The Southern Plains of the U.S. are experiencing some of the worst drought conditions in over a century. As Texas broils under the scorching heat, its town reservoirs and lakes are drying up. Western Texas saw a measly 0.1 inch of rain in the past several
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India continues to make plans to build a nuclear power plant near the port of Jaitapur, just 400 kilometres south of Mumbai. If built, the plant will generate 25 percent more power than the largest power plant, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, on the west coast of Jap
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China is pushing forward to complete and launch its first space module into orbit later this year. The Tiangong-1 module is 8.5 tons and will be one in a series of connecting rooms in a multi-module station. This is China’s first effort to orbit a statio
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Ethiopia has announced that it will construct a controversial multibillion-dollar Nile River dam that could supply more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity for itself and its neighbors. The project, called The Grand Millennium Dam, was announced several m
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Last Saturday, President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama, despite the urgings of the Chinese Foreign Ministry asking the White House to cancel the visit. The Tibetan spiritual leader had been in Washington for a Buddhist ritual for 11 days.
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Education Minister Jan Bjorklund of Sweden is considering making Mandarin available in all primary schools as a third language option. There is a growing number of schools in Europe and America that have begun to offer this non-western language, but if th
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One of the two cameras from the Apollo 14 mission’s lunar module Antares was going to be sold at the next Space History Sale hosted by the British auction house Bonhams. Unfortunately, for the camera’s owner, former astronaut pilot Edgar Mitchell, NASA
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On Sunday, thousands of protestors stood outside the nuclear plant at Fessenheim in Alsace, France. The plant in Fessenheim is the country’s oldest nuclear power plant and has been in service since 1977. Its location near the German border has prompted f
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Two Indian companies (Abellon Clean Energy Ltd. and Husk Power Systems) and Pakistani company, Aga Khan Planning and Building Services, were awarded this year’s prestigious Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. The British award, founded in 2001, encoura
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