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In Singapore, for example, the Marina Bay Sands hotel features a skypark on the 56th floor, with trees,

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.

#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,

Cargo from Asia was stacked in neat rows of shipping containers on the dock. Standing in its shadow,

Once it edged away from the Hamburg dock, its progress amounts to a snapshot of global commerce:

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

#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,

#oeso long as cargo was handled one item at a time, with long delays at the docks and complicated interchanges between trucks, trains, planes,

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.

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.

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,

and longshoremen who once populated the world s docks and harbors have given way to engineers and computer specialists;

when they re sitting alongside the pier. Companies are facing a tug-of-war between efficiency and flexibility.#

More recently in 2012 the bird was blamed for holding up a marina development in Westernport.

The investigators hope that the use of such films in various industries including health care shipping

But on piers shipworms typically eat enough wood underwater to make them structurally unstable within a year he said.

Earlier this summer park officials recovered a drone that had crashed near a marina in Yellowstone Lake Bartlett said.

We found the earliest evidence for a parasite that causes Schistosomiasis in humans said study co-author Dr. Piers Mitchell a biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge in England.

Now a new report finds that tree rings in those waterlogged ribs show the vessel was built likely in 1773 or soon after in a small shipyard near Philadelphia.

Marina Silva, an environmental advocate who resigned as Brazil's environment minister last year amid internal opposition to her policies

when the US fiscal year ends, said Pier Oddone, director of the lab, on 5 may. The US Department of energy had said in January that it would not fund the collider into 2012,

Fermilab change Pier Oddone, the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced on 2 august that he would step down from his post in July 2013.

Plastic wood is no green guaranteeishmael Tirado watches as his fellow construction workers rebuild the Steeplechase Pier, a central feature of New york s iconic Coney island boardwalk.

When the pier reopens this summer, visitors will encounter a shiny expanse of recycled plastic jutting out to sea on a platform of steel-reinforced concrete."

On a recent weekend, construction crews were busy replacing small sections of boardwalk near the Steeplechase Pier with fresh ip

A thousand years later, Greek and Phoenician merchants had begun shipping wine throughout the Mediterranean region, each in their own distinctively shaped jars called amphorae.

and freight piling up at railroad depots and piers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.""Transmission between horses and humans seems to have been key to some epidemics

In 2010 a major December storm system examined in this study halted shipping in the canal for 17 hours.

Many forces of nature work against their anchorage in the soil. Human intervention in coastal areas and climate change also make life difficult for mangrove seedlings.

and the imposition of a related embargo on shipping fruits and vegetables from the state would cause an additional loss of $564 million.

As the landing place for early American colonists and continuing with the industrialization and proliferation of cargo imports the Northeast has been receiving invasive forest insects far longer than anywhere else in the nation.

Understanding potential impacts of climate change on the Amazon forest and the savannas surrounding it is one of the major challenges for scientists in the region today explains author Marina Hirota who came to work with the Wageningen team after her studies in Brazil

We saw this big brown beach ball says Traggis who co-authored a study of their findings in the journal Botanica Marina.

Colpomenia peregrina looks strikingly similar to a native species Leathesia marina or sea cauliflower. Sea potato however is smoother thinner and greenish-light brown

The paper Southern expansion of the brown alga Colpomenia peregrina Sauvageau (Scytosiphonales) in the Northwest Atlantic ocean was published in the December 2012 issue of Botanica Marina.

Marina Gálvez-Peralta and Daniel Nebert of the University of Cincinnati Medical center; Ryan Pavlovicz and Chenglong Li of Ohio State's Biophysics Program (Li is also in the College of Pharmacy;

and water and provide anchorage. The researchers conducted experiments over two years growing resistant and non-resistant crops and applying five different amounts of nitrogen.

Ditches claimed only 2 percent of the marsh compared with the 70 percent affected by roads houses restaurants marinas and other hallmarks of a modern coastal community.

GEDI will be a tremendous new resource for studying Earth's vegetation said Piers Sellers deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate.

According to one of the authors Dr Piers Mitchell at the University of Cambridge UK the discovery might be among the oldest evidence of human-made technology inadvertently causing disease outbreaks.

like Maine (which sports the lowest shipping cost to Europe at $28 a ton), much of it is either too far from the feedstock supply,

Brian Dougherty, Celery Design cofounder, says Lemnis ultimately opted to use an overseas packager that went with a different bulk shipping solution.

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