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  Patients With Surgical Complications Provide Greater Hospital Profit-Margins

  April 16, 2013 — Privately insured surgical patients with a complication provided hospitals with a 330 percent higher profit margin than those without a complication, report researchers. Medicare patients with a ... > full story
• Energy Issues
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  Survey Shows Dramatic Improvement in B100 Biodiesel Quality

  April 16, 2013 — The latest national survey of 100 percent biodiesel "blend stock" samples found that 95% of the samples from 2011-12 met ASTM International fuel quality specifications. The ASTM standards serve as ... > full story
• Petroleum
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  Cheaper Natural Gas-Powered Cars on the Horizon?

  April 16, 2013 — When it comes to American consumers' vehicular preferences, a chemist says the choice often boils down to simple economics more so than availability, environment or ... > full story
• Extinction
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  Biodiversity Crisis: The Impacts of Socio-Economic Pressures on Natural Floras and Faunas

  April 16, 2013 — A new study on extinction risk has shown that proportions of plant and animal species being classified as threatened on national Red Lists are more closely related to socioeconomic pressure levels ... > full story
• Nature
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  Endangered Animals
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  Resurgence of Endangered Deer in Patagonian ‘Eden’ Highlights Conservation Success

  April 16, 2013 — The Huemul, a species of deer found only in the Latin American region of Patagonia, is bouncing back from the brink of possible ... > full story
• Agriculture and Food
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  Forest
   

  Escalating Cost of Forest Conservation

  April 16, 2013 — In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage ... > full story
• Energy Issues
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  The Future of Our Energy

  April 15, 2013 — When it comes to sustainable energy supplies hydroelectric plants are usually the best solution, according to researchers who have reviewed the economic, social and environmental impact of fuel ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Cutting Specific Pollutants Would Slow Sea Level Rise, Research Indicates

  April 14, 2013 — With coastal areas bracing for rising sea levels, new research indicates that cutting emissions of certain pollutants can greatly slow down sea level rise. Reductions in the four pollutants that ... > full story
• Transportation Science
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  Energy Policy
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  Energy Technology
   
  

  Compact Multipurpose Scooter for Crowded Megacities

  April 12, 2013 — Researchers have unveiled an all-new multipurpose scooter prototype, codenamed VOI, at the 3rd Taiwan International Electric Vehicle Show. VOI gets its name from the Vietnamese word for elephant -- a ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Carbon Dioxide Removal Can Lower Costs of Climate Protection

  April 12, 2013 — Directly removing carbon dioxide from the air has the potential to alter the costs of climate change mitigation. It could allow prolonging greenhouse-gas emissions from sectors like transport that ... > full story

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