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Date Time Consultation to safeguard water supplies and protect environment The Environment Agency has launched a four-week consultation today (11 February) to determine areas of water stress in England, and how best to protect the environment and safeguard supplies. Climate change, population growth and the need to improve our resilience to droughts are all putting pressure on water supplies in areas of England. Today’s consultation will provide up-to-date evidence on water resources so that ...

Date Time Friends Matter: Giraffes that Group with Others Live Longer Adult female giraffes who spend time in larger groups with other females live longer than less sociable individuals. The effects of sociability on survival outweigh other factors such as environment or human presence, a study of giraffes in Tanzania led by the University of Zurich has shown. Female giraffes benefit from living in groups with several other females. (Image: Sonja Metzger) A research team led by Monica Bond, res...

Human language can be inefficient. Some words are vital. Others, expendable. Reread the first sentence of this story. Just two words, "language" and...

A bumble bee foraging on lavender. Photo taken by Prof Francis Ratnieks A honey bee foraging on lavender. Photo taken by Prof Francis Ratnieks. As abundant and widespread bees, it is common to see both bumble bees and honey bees foraging on the same flower species during the summer, whether in Britain or many other countries. Yet researchers at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at the University of Sussex, show that these tw...

Adult female giraffes that group together with more of their peers live longer than less sociable individuals, according to a new study.Image: Wild...

/EIN News/ -- CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (PIPE – TSX) Pipestone Energy Corp. ( “Pipestone” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on its production and operations, as well as report its year-end 2020 independent reserves evaluation prepared by McDaniel & Associates Consultants Ltd. (“ McDaniel”) with an effective date of December 31, 2020 (the “ McDaniel Report”). Since inception, Pipestone has continued to demonstrate leadership in comb...

The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) provides a real-time estimate of the total electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network. The CBECI is maintained by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

(1) BEIJING, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- By empowering AI robotics, leading Chinese AI industrial robotics startup Mech-Mind Robotics (Mech-Mind) helped increase the operational efficiency for over 110 partners in logistics in the year 2020. Focusing on making industrial robots smart by utilizing advanced technologies such as deep learning and 3D vision, Mech-Mind has been growing rapidly in recent months after successive rounds of private funding valuing the 4-year-old startup around US$ 300 ...

Date Time Share From: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada The Government of Canada is working with partners to reduce northern communities’ reliance on diesel for heating and electricity by increasing the use of local renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency. The Government of Canada is working with partners to reduce northern communities’ reliance on diesel for heating and electricity by increasing the use of local renewable energy sources and improving ...

Date Time Deep Learning Trains Buildings to Optimize Efficiency In the United States, residential and commercial buildings account for nearly 40 percent of all energy consumption. About 40 percent of that energy use is from heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. An emerging efficiency method for buildings called model predictive control (MPC) could reduce HVAC energy use by up to 50 percent without impacting occupant comfort. But the method has been hampered by high costs as...