Spaceship House is a sustainable prefab home controllable by smartphone

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Abandoned parking garage transformed into a glowing office in San Francisco

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The Ecological House 3.0 is a prefab bioclimatic dwelling 100% controlled by smartphone

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2014 was the hottest year ever recorded on Earth

If the massive droughts and wildfires this past summer weren’t indications enough, new data out of Japan indicates 2014 was the hottest year on record for planet Earth. According to Discovery News , the ranking was issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), which is one of four major global keepers of temperature records for the planet–and the first to release its data for the year just gone by. The average temperature in 2014 was 1.1 degrees F above JMA’s average for the 20th Century, and 0.1 degrees above 1998; the former record holder for the hottest year ever. Read the rest of 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded on Earth Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2014 , 2014 hottest year , australia , California , climate , Climate Change , data , El Niño , Europe , global warming , hot , hottest , hottest year , hottest year in history , hottest year on record , jma , meteorological , nasa , NOAA , record , weather

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Oil spill dumps 33,000 barrels of oil into Straits of Singapore

A Libyan oil tanker and a Singapore bulk oil carrier collided off Singapore late last week, spilling about 33,000 barrels of oil  into the Pacific. According to Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), the oil tanker,  Alyarmouk, and the Singapore-registered Sinar Kapuas collided about 11 nautical miles northeast of Pedra Branca—just east of Singapore. Reuters reports that damage to the cargo tanks on the Alyarmouk from the collision resulted in the oil spill, and V. Ships U.K. which manages the Alyarmouk, estimates that a total of 33,000 barrels of crude oil was spilled. No injuries were reported in the crash and no traffic was reported in the port at the time of the collision. Read the rest of Oil spill dumps 33,000 barrels of oil into Straits of Singapore Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: libyan oil tanker , libyan ship collision , major oil spills , oil carrier collision , oil spill clean up , oil tanker collision , ship collision , singapore oil carrier , singapore oil spill , singapore oil tanker , singapore ship collision , straits of singapore collision

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