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Norway To Finance World’s Biggest Wind Turbine

Planet Ark, Wed February 17, 2010, comments (0)
Norway will spend 137 million crowns ($23 million) to build what it says will be the world's biggest wind turbine with rotors 145 meters in diameter and producing 10 megawatts of electricity, green energy incubator Enova said.

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Floating wind turbine launched

BBC, Sat June 06, 2009, comments (1)
The world's first floating wind turbine is to be towed out to sea this weekend

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Rare Dolphins by the Hundreds Found in Bangladesh

ENS, Sun April 19, 2009, comments (0)
The discovery of 6,000 rare dolphins in Bangladesh and new guidelines for marine wildlife viewing in the Pacific Islands are among the announcements made this week at the First International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas underway on the island of Maui.

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Norway joins fight to save Amazon this article opens in a new window

BBC, Wed September 17, 2008, comments (0)
Norway pledges $1bn to a new fund to help Brazil preserve its Amazon rainforest and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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Norway mall offers shoppers greenhouse gas credits

ENN, Tue February 26, 2008, comments (0)
Oslo, Norway - Half a kg of salmon; two kg of potatoes; a tonne of greenhouse gas reductions -- shoppers at one Norwegian mall can now buy cuts in their carbon footprint as they pick up their weekly groceries.

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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the Sky

physorg.com, Wed January 23, 2008, comments (0)
Grenoble, France - Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices.

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Skies to be swept for alien life

BBC News, Sat October 13, 2007, comments (2)
Hat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.

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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007

Scoop, Sat October 13, 2007, comments (3)
Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

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Feuding Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites meet at peace seminar in Finland

CNews, Mon September 03, 2007, comments (0)
Helsinki, Finland - Representatives of feuding Sunni and Shiite groups in Iraq were meeting at a seminar behind closed doors Friday to discuss ways of ending the bloodshed, conference organizers said.

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Norway ranked as world’s most peaceful nation

MSNBC, Fri June 01, 2007, comments (0)
London, England, UK - Japan, which only 65 years ago was seen as an aggressive war-mongerer, has been ranked as the world's fifth most peaceful nation in a report launched Wednesday by international businessman Steve Killelea in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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