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From 1976 onwards, marine scientist Marianne Riedman, together with her colleague Burney Le Boeuf, studied adoption among the seals oe and why it was happening.
marine ecologist Professor James A Estes, cameraman Doug Allan, ecological economist Pavan Sukhdev, and lead scientist with the Nature Conservancy,
the Port of Portland headquarters in Oregon uses a"Living Machine  to treat and reuse its wastewater using a simulated tidal wetland.
these boat dwellers weren't allowed to set foot on land until the second half of the 20th century.
Takahashi and his team have devised a plan to enable large ships equipped with ocean thermal electric conversion,
which will feed in turn seafarers and landlubbers alike. Sinking fish waste and seaweed detritus will gradually sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
 The infrastructure for a marine community will be waiting to be used. Free floatingthe Seasteading Institute has also been dealing with the challenges faced by communities trying to live permanently on the ocean.
communities will ditch the stilts and float freely or anchor. Others are trying investigating this technique on a smaller scale too.
As a result, less traditional species are expected to increasingly find their way into trawlers, supermarkets and restaurants.
The glasswork houses a carbon capture system that works in much the same way that limestone is deposited by living marine environments.
In Singapore, for example, the Marina Bay Sands hotel features a skypark on the 56th floor, with trees,
which allows a fleet of beekeeping technicians who inspects hives across the country to enter troves of live data on farmers,
and houses constructed out of old boat sails, rice sacks and plastic drinks bottles. But then there are those items that seemingly can't be repaired.
British yachtswoman Ellen Macarthur is a strong advocate of the concept and commissioned a report into the idea,
several of the dolphins continued to swim around the boat until it finally left to return to port.
The US Customs and Border Protection is hoping to open similar testing facilities in other ports over the coming years.
They also believe it could begin to be used to find sites such as ancient harbours currently covered by water."
Fishing on an industrial scale to provide for billions has altered dramatically marine diversity. Individual farmers breeding livestock or keeping chickens,
Environmentally, the new reservoir can be a haven for wildlife, especially birds; however, inappropriate flooding of vegetation can cause greenhouse gas emissions and poison the water for fish.
That produced a raft of environmental management treaties and declarations oe including the United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
A raft of practices oe from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops oe contribute to depleted soils.
Schooner Wharf will drop a pirate wench into the ocean at 12 sharp, and a drag queen named Sushi will drop from one end of the town in the other in a pair of high-heeled shoes.
(but not people) There may be many similarities between the importance of large predators in marine and terrestrial environments,
and an international expert in the study of large predators such as wolves and cougars. oewere now finding that there are many more similarities between marine and terrestrial ecosystems than weve realized,
Dugongs are large marine mammals, similar to manatees, that feed primarily on seagrasses and are a common prey of sharks.
A more frequent information exchange between terrestrial and marine ecologists could provide additional insights into ecosystem function
said Jeff Seaman, co-director of the survey. Many are in community colleges, he said. Very few attend private colleges;
He explains how he went out on a boat with his family members to sprinkle the ashes of his grandfather into the sea His uncle oereleased them on the wrong side of the boat
whose Omaha-based railroad connects the Midwest with ports in Texas and the Pacific coast. oethis year we might have more demand.
Through its subsidiaries, the company operates more than 1 million cars and trucks, the largest fleet of passenger vehicles in the world.
the federal government required her to haul them across Puget sound on a ferry and then drive three hours to reach a suitable slaughterhouse.
Instead, ranchers ship cattle across state lines to megaprocessors, where cows are fattened usually on grain and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3,
the federal government required her to haul them across Puget sound on a ferry and then drive three hours to reach a suitable slaughterhouse.
Instead, ranchers ship cattle across state lines to megaprocessors, where cows are fattened usually on grain and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3,
dogs bark and the muezzin leads the call to prayer. In front of the hut, the mother is cooking maize porridge over an open fire,
but I had no idea the boat would have been so big! There is enough space near the keel for a 50-seat film theater where kids can watch a video that tells the story of Noah and his ark.
Apples online store continues to show a ship date for the Wifi-only ipad of April 12,
Apples online store continues to show a ship date for the Wifi-only ipad of April 12
Herb Mcdonald, now director of special events at the Showboat and formerly a vice president of Del Webb Hotels, remembers that Webb ordered the same meal every time they dined together. oenew York steak, green beans
Herb Mcdonald, now director of special events at the Showboat and formerly a vice president of Del Webb Hotels, remembers that Webb ordered the same meal every time they dined together. oenew York steak, green beans
The 4treehouse by Lukasz Kos floats like a oejapanese lantern on stilts and is situated to accommodate four existing trees on the site.
We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,
which is home to two helicopters, a submarine, and a swimming pool. But while their excesses seem familiar, even archaic,
arguably the most coveted status symbol isn t a yacht, a racehorse, or a knighthood;
purchasing yachts and sports teams, and surrounding themselves with couture-clad supermodels. Fifteen years later, they are exploring how to buy their way into the world of ideas.
so by watching his yacht compete in a race off the Isle of wight. It is perhaps telling that Blankfein is the son of a Brooklyn postal worker and that Hayward#espite hi o
Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery, and communication drones.
and we haven t even scratched the surface of what will seem like a massive influx of brilliant new peripherals over the coming months.
As a rule of thumb, 60%of the jobs 10 years from now haven t been invented yet.
and frivolous clutter. 7. Urban Agriculturalists Why ship food all the way around the world when it can be grown next door Next generation produce-growing operations will be located underground,
and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks. Operating at less than 2%of the cost of today s car, truck, jet, ship,
and train systems, this emerging tube transport system will be a massive undertaking that demands talented new-age thinkers for decades to come.
but we haven t been listening. Expanding the Information Layer Over the past several weeks
Those things are everywhere#10,000 of those fall off ships every year! As Podponics continues to innovate their pods prices are likely to come down,
They were found in 136 tin-lined wooden vials on a 50ft-long trading ship
$20. 80 Kobe is one of Japans busiest ports and a manufacturing center for appliances, food,
the predator#deer had a banner year, causing 211 human deaths in car wrecks. In the U s. there are about 1. 5 million deer/vehicle collisions annually,
The bugs probably got to the USA in the late 1990s by hitchhiking in container ships from Asia.
Beware of the bark side of the force...Predicament. Sure, if youre a cow, its not part of your vocabulary.
##and the lack of natural harbors kept it outside the main shipping lanes for most of its history.
After college, he considered a career in the cruise ship industry. But his grandfather, Granville Trimper, longtime park manager, asked him to join in the family business.
The production of organic food is governed by a raft of regulations that generally prohibit the use of synthetic pesticides, hormones and additives.
assembly work that requires tactile feedback like placing fiberglass panels inside airplanes, boats or cars;
like a paddle boat wheel. As the wheel turns it cranks an onboard generator that produces a charge.
it also could be that plants haven t really needed to hear. The evolutionary advantage created from hearing in humans
#because they haven t hit the big time fast enough. Worse the fairytale view of history implies that innovation has an end.
The test ships should be capable of carrying at least four people, he added. Since 2010, NASA has invested a total of $365. 5 million in private companies,
Spacex, already selected by NASA to fly cargo to the station, plans to upgrade its Dragon freighter
and Falcon 9 rocket to fly crew as well. Sierra nevada is developing a winged vehicle called the Dream Chaser that resembles a miniature space shuttle.
haven t been getting enough attention. It s very easy for the digital world to spot an opportunity,
we will see ground-based delivery drones hauling point-to-point cargo. Better to practice without passengers onboard to perfect the technology.
There s also a whole raft of new sensors including an onboard magnetometer so that it can always tell where the pilot is in relation to its flight path,
Powering electric cars, boats, and farm equipment may not be that far off. 19.)Plant Monitors-Urban agriculture is catching on like wildfire,
As a rule of thumb, 60%of the jobs 10 years from now haven t been invented yet.
Boulder as start-up haven is not a new development, either. Since 1960, it has nurtured quietly nascent industries,
The history of Boulder, the start-up haven, is a fascinating story of a community that built itself from scratch through a combination of individual effort, shared sacrifice,
Just this past month, Western Canada s fleet of sardine-hunting ships came back with a return of#zilch.
try not to dwell on all the balloons you ve watched float away into nothingness. Wine As a species full of wine-guzzling lushes, humanity s unquenchable thirst has put us in a bit of a predicament#300-million case predicament,
The ride takes him over surface streets and freeways, old salt flats and pine-green foothills, across the gusty blue of San francisco bay,
and rocket ships, transporter beams and cities beneath the sea, of a predicted future still well beyond our technology.
A fleet of vehicles could operate as a personalized public-transportation system, picking people up and dropping them off independently, waiting at parking lots between calls.
It s a place of safety, a haven from the world. It s a place with librarians in it.
Companies haven t been able to find a way to produce enough of it to make the price affordable,
#Carbon-negative energy now a reality In 2007, officials from Berkeley, California shut off the electricity to an artists space known as the Shipyard.
All Power Labs has set up shop inside the Shipyard. Run by CEO Jim Mason who owns the space#the 5-year-old startup now produces technology used to transform dense biomass like corn husks or wood chips into clean, sustainable,
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles,
They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025; autonomous technology could help them get there faster.
Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,
Every day, millions of plastic water bottles, cups and containers are transported around the world by exhaust-spewing steamships, trains,
According to Bodner s website, the company spent 2012#oequietly designing a prototype to be installed on board a naval submarine#
and cargo through suffocated straws at extreme speeds. But whereas Musk sees Hyperloop as a solution for cities separated by no more than about 900 miles (for longer routes,
At first telemarketers, Oster got a job designing boats for Proline. On the side, they flipped houses; then they got into commercial property.
He worked 40 hours on boats and 60 hours on ET3, with Brenda taking the lead on real estate.#
it s more or less six seats-or space for the equivalent of three cargo pallets, depending.
The maximum weight including cargo: 1, 212 pounds. This lack of heft translates into lesser stresses
Rather than using maglev technology, Hyperloop cars float on a cushion of air. As with ET3, Hyperloop s minimizing air resistance
Experts in traditional transportation tend to be flummoxed by these systems, with their strange technologies and disregard for the traditional boundaries of road, rail and air, transit and cargo.
guys in Air Jordans working on cargo pods and 3d printers cranking out spacecraft parts. Then he went toe-to-toe with Musk in a discussion of evacuated-tube transport.
The ship was half empty already. Cargo from Asia was stacked in neat rows of shipping containers on the dock.
Standing in its shadow, it s hard to appreciate just how big the Hong kong Express is.
about as wide as some mega yachts are long. Fully loaded, it can carry 13,167 20-foot-long containers,
As the spring sun climbed higher, glinting off the placid Elbe river, some cranes nestled containers into towering metal racks on the ship s deck while others lifted boxes out.
full racks of Asia-bound cargo towered 50 feet above the deck, corrugated steel containers stacked like Lego blocks six deep.
Once it edged away from the Hamburg dock, its progress amounts to a snapshot of global commerce:
first a brief westward sail to The english port of Southampton, then nearly a month chugging at 25 miles per hour to Singapore.
In less than two months the Hong kong Express called at 11 ports and traveled more than 12,500 miles.
it can move 1. 4 million tons of cargo annually. That s the equivalent of 1. 8 billion ipads.
The ship is a link in a long, complicated, and precise global supply chain made possible by the humble boxes on board.
the shipping container#here are millions out there, all just like the ones stacked on the Hong kong Express but for a coat of paint and a serial number#pitomizes the enormity, sophistication,
Think of the shipping container as the Internet of things. Just as your email is disassembled into discrete bundles of data the minute you hit send,
Once they enter the stream of global shipping, the boxes are shifted and routed by sophisticated computer systems that determine their arrangement on board
Ships make many stops, and a box scheduled to be unloaded late in the journey can t be placed above one slated for offloading early.
Last year the world s container ports moved 560 million 20-foot containers#early 1. 5 billion tons of cargo altogether.
and coal still move in specially designed bulk cargo ships, more than 90 percent of the rest#verything from clothes to cars to computers#ow travels inside shipping containers.#
carry refrigerated cargo and are plugged into power sources on ships or at dockside. Because the containers are all identical,
any ship can move them. Those already huge numbers are expected to grow. Increasingly, cargo companies are looking for ways to move bulk cargo in containers,
fitting the steel boxes with bladders to transport liquid chemicals or cleaning them and using polypropylene liners to move anything from soy, corn,
and wheat to salt and sugar. Even cars and trucks#nown in the trade as#oeroro,#or#oeroll-on
roll off#cargo#re increasingly being loaded into containers rather than specialized ships.##oecontainers are just a lot easier,
#By driving the cost of shipping internationally way down and the speed of global commerce way up,
which is owned by German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd. Asked to trace a product through a typical container voyage,
There s the trucker who moves the box to a waiting ship in Xinjiang, the feeder ship that moves it to Singapore to be loaded onto a bigger Europe-bound freighter, the crane operator in Hamburg, customs officials, train engineers, and more.
Yet the container s uniformity smooths each step of the way. Trucks and trains are fitted to haul the identical boxes;
Longshoremen laid hands on each piece of cargo that went into a ship s hold,
#oeso long as cargo was handled one item at a time, with long delays at the docks and complicated interchanges between trucks, trains, planes,
and ships, freight transportation was too unpredictable for manufacturers to take the risk that supplies from faraway places would arrive on time,
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Parts were sourced locally,
An ambitious truck-company owner with little experience when it came to shipping, Mclean#ho had made a fortune in trucking in the boom years after WWII#as looking for a way to move goods up and down the East Coast s traffic-choked highways faster and more cheaply.
Trucks could roll their trailers onto ships in North carolina; the trailers would be unloaded in New york
On April 26, 1956, Mclean s first container ship#military-surplus WWII tanker#ailed from Newark to Houston loaded with containers custom-built for his company, Pan-Atlantic.
and out of ship holds using cranes, others with forklifts. Cranes belonging to Grace Lines couldn t unload containers belonging to Pan-Atlantic.
resulted in a 1961 agreement that only ships built to carry boxes 10, 20,30, and 40 feet long would be eligible for federal subsidies.
The first Transatlantic container ships set sail in 1966, filled with whiskey headed to the U s. and guns on their way to Europe.
nearly every berth was filled with U s. military cargo destined for the 250,000 American soldiers stationed in West germany.
#oethe early Transatlantic container ships could be unloaded and reloaded more quickly, so containerships spent less time at the dock than breakbulk ships,
#says Levinson.##oeconsequently, each one could make more voyages in the course of a year.#
#oefrom whiskey distillers in Scotland to apple growers in Australia, major users of international shipping abandoned breakbulk freight as soon as regular container shipping was able to meet their needs,
By the mid-80s, the cost of shipping goods from Asia to North america had fallen by more than 50 percent.
The Port of Los angeles, America s busiest container port, handled 476,000 TEUS in 1981. Thirty years later, 7. 9 million 20-foot containers#lmost all of them containing goods on their way from factories in Asia#oved through the port
a 16-fold increase. Hamburg s four container terminals loaded and unloaded 8. 9 million TEUS in 2012.
On the long list of global container ports, Hamburg and Los angeles are middleweights: Shanghai, the world s largest container port, moves 31 million TEUS each year.
As the idea gathered steam, it brought with it unintentional ripple effects. Some are hard to gauge,
Mile for mile, transporting a single TEU using a modern container ship produces just a third of the CO2 it would take to move that same container with a truck.
and multiple international supply chains means that far more cargo is being moved today than in the days of breakbulk.
like the loss of many dockworkers jobs and the death of waterfronts around the world as cargo moves to increasingly automated facilities on or beyond city limits.
nearly 13 percent of jobs in New york city depended on the city s ports. Three decades later, nearly all of those jobs were gone.
When the cost of shipping American cotton to China, having it sewn into shirts there,
The reliability of containerized shipping spawned a new field in business schools around the world, namely supply chain management.
#oewhen I started in the merchant marine, on a four-month trip to India we d usually come back two months late
and nobody noticed,#says Gerhardt Muller, a retired professor at the U s. Merchant marine Academy and author of Intermodal Freight Transportation, an industry standard.#
#oein the 80s, people realized the container wasn t just a box for shipping, #says Muller.#
#oecontainers were no longer about shipping#hey became about logistics.##They may grease the wheels of global commerce,
Could the same thing happen to global shipping? With the timely arrival of each container dependent on dozens of things going right,
In the U s.,two adjacent ports#os Angeles and Long beach#andle nearly half of the nation s container traffic.
MIT s Rice recently set about calculating the capacity of U s. ports, and set up an online utility, called Port Mapper,
to help operators figure out how to respond if a port were taken out of commission. The nightmare scenario:
an earthquake, a terror attack, or a labor strike in southern California.##oeif something bad happens in L a. including Long beach,
every other container port in America would have to have approximately 25 percent extra capacity to absorb all those containers,
#Delays as ships were rerouted to ports in Canada and the Gulf Coast of the U s. might hold up cargo for weeks.
It s already happened, on a small scale. In 2002, labor disputes led to a 10-day port lockout on the West Coast.
When Hurricane Katrina closed ports in and around Louisiana that handle a significant share of America s food imports and exports
And Hurricane Sandy closed terminals in Newark and New york for days, forcing shippers to route their cargo to ports elsewhere on the East Coast.
would be more ports operating below their peak capability to create a buffer in case of disaster or unexpected delays.
The port of the future is eerily quiet and empty. At Altenwerder, there s none of the noise you d expect at a busy container port.
and growling engines, there s just the faint sound of gentle waves against the hulls of the ships
and low horns of boats making their way along the Elbe. As the Hong kong Express takes on its Asia-bound load,
The crane slides on rails back and forth over the massive ship manipulating a specially designed#oespreader#claw to lift
#says Karl Olaf Petters, a spokesman for Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the company that runs Altenwerder and most of Hamburg s other cargo terminals.
Ports and shipping companies are working to squeeze still more efficiencies out of an already mature system.
and unload ships simultaneously, reducing time in port to a minimum. The roustabouts, stevedores, and longshoremen who once populated the world s docks
and harbors have given way to engineers and computer specialists; HHLA employs more than 100 people in its IT department.
In the name of energy efficiency, the freighters of the future will make the mighty Hong kong Express look modest.
A Danish shipper, Maersk, is at work on what it calls the#oetriple-E#class. The vessels are 1, 300 feet long,
and capable of carrying 18,000 containers at a time, the equivalent of 111 million pairs of sneakers#7 percent more cargo than the Hong kong Express, currently one of the largest container ships in the world.
This latest generation of freighters, under construction now is slated to enter service some time in the next year.
Muller says Maersk s new behemoths may be pushing the envelope towards diminishing returns. The issue isn t the size of ships,
but the infrastructure required to load and unload them. Fully unloaded and laid end-to-end, the 18,000 containers aboard one of Maersk s new ships would stretch for 68 miles.
That sheer volume threatens to choke even the largest ports.##oewhere are you going to put all those containers?#
#Muller asks.##oeships lose money when they re sitting alongside the pier. Companies are facing a tug-of-war between efficiency and flexibility.#
#Ironically, while ports shave minutes and hours off of their operations, elsewhere the container industry is actually slowing down.
In the past few years, container ships#he largest of which now carry 16,000 20-foot containers#ave dropped their average speed 3 miles per hour,
down to a stately 25 miles per hour, saving up to 30 percent on fuel costs and reducing CO2 and sulfur emissions.
With nearly 20 million containers constantly in motion around the world, the humble container has become an integral part of our lives:
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives In Medicine. 24.)) Dogs and cats don t see in shades of grey.
#oewe haven t quite agreed on what will happen after the summer, #says Hofman. So check it out
Using a fleet of surveillance drones, equipped with special infrared cameras, fires can be spotted during the earliest moments of a containment window,
signaling a fleet of extinguisher drones to douse the blaze before anything serious happens. Drones specifically designed for extinguishing forest fires have the potential to eliminate virtually 100%of the devastating fires that blanket newspaper headlines every summer.
Thermal image of Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat Massachusetts State Police released video taken of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev s
hiding spot after he was discovered in a boat parked in a Watertown MA resident s backyard.
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