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• Gator victim gets helping hand — a high-tech one
They screamed and yelled, but the water muffled what they were saying. Alligators kill by clamping onto its prey and dragging it underwater to drown it. Edwards knew that’s what the animal that had his arm in its huge jaws was going to try to do. ...
• Fire officials fear winds will spread L.A. wildfire
Some 1,000 people were deployed to fight the fire along with water-dumping helicopters and planes. Forced evacuations The blaze threatened neighborhoods around Kagel and Lopez canyons, forcing the evacuation of about 450 homes. Many displaced ...
• Drought has Aussie farmers trading water
SYDNEY, Australia - For farmer Malcolm Holm, water now is just like a new shovel or tractor — he has to buy it. The amount of water he is allowed to take from nearby Murrumbidgee River has dwindled to nothing for the past three years because of ...
• A cleaner way to get drinking water from seas?
David Kreamer's vision is to return old ships to the seas where they belong. But he'd like to see them fulfill a new purpose: turning seawater into drinking water through desalination facilities installed aboard. According to Kreamer, a geoscientist ...
• Levi cuts pattern for a greener bottom line
Levi’s lifecycle analysis showed that one pair of jeans produces 33.2 kilograms of carbon dioxide, and uses 3,480.5 liters of water and 400.1 megajoules of energy. That’s the equivalent of driving a car 78 miles, taking 53 showers and watching a ...