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BenchValue – Benchmarking wood material value chains against non-renewable value chains by using and expanding assessment tool “ToSIA”

BenchValue – Benchmarking wood material value chains against non-renewable value chains by using and expanding assessment tool “ToSIA”
Rach.Colling
Thu, 01.04.2018 - 12:44

Renewable wood-based materials can help to reduce GHG emissions i…

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Food vs Fuel: Feeding and Powering the Future

Biofuels have raced from the margins to the mainstream. The International Energy Agency projects that global demand for transport biofuels will climb 23 percent to roughly 200 billion liters by 2028—a scale big enough to shave millions of tons off net greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Restoration in the Western Himalaya: a systematic review of current efforts and implications for the future

Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 4, May 2025.

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How the Marine Biological Association is shaping the global dialogue on marine conservation

As advocates of the world of marine observation and conservation gather in Nice for the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) and the One Ocean Science Congress (OOSC), the Marine Biological Association (MBA), led by CEO Professor Willie Wilson, will play a central role in shaping the global…

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Ep. 504 - The Genetic Mysteries of Creosote Bush

What is a species? On the surface, this seems like an easy question to answer. Get a bunch of biologists in the room together and you will quickly see it can be a bit of a loaded question. Questions like this are what drive scientists like Dr. Robert Laport. By looking at genome duplication events i…

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Zuckerberg’s Meta reportedly takes stake in Ray-Ban maker, showing commitment to AI-powered smartglasses

Meta reportedly takes a 3% stake in EssilorLuxottica

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Parkinson’s reversal? One drug brings dying brain cells back to life

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key brain cells, restoring vital dopamine communication and neuroprotective signals in a mouse model of genetic Parkinson’s. After three months on the LRRK2-blocking drug MLi-2, dama…

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Hamas Releases Four Female Israeli Soldiers Under Gaza Cease-Fire Deal

The hostages are the second set to be released since the multiphase agreement came into effect, raising hopes for a lasting end to the war.

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The digital future of industrial and operational work

Digital transformation has long been a boardroom buzzword—shorthand for ambitious, often abstract visions of modernization. But today, digital technologies are no longer simply concepts in glossy consultancy decks and on corporate campuses; they’re also being embedded directly into factory floors, l…

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Best Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals: Our top picks on headphones, TVs, robot vacuums and more

Amazon Prime Day 2025 has arrived and it has brought a slew of discounts across the entirety of Amazon’s online storefront. As expected, Amazon’s site is pretty overwhelming at the moment and will continue to be throughout the duration of the four-day event. Even if you came prepared with a wishlist…

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Best Prime Day Kindle and e-reader deals: Lowest prices of 2025

Cross books off your summer reading list with Prime Day deals for Kindle e-readers and accessories.

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The Bayeux Tapestry, a British Masterpiece, Returns to England After 900 Years

The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, is a loan from France. For the first time, it will be on exhibit in London.

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🚨 The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now

Alphabet’s self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accounts—and maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.

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🚨 How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion

Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.

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🚨 Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth remained hot for millions of years

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📰 Prime Day Deals: Bose Bluetooth Headphones & Earbuds Are Up to 45% Off

Get Bose's QuietComfort Noise-Canceling Headphones on sale on Amazon -- save up to $150 online.

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🌅 AstraZeneca: Just What The Doctor Ordered

AstraZeneca: Just What The Doctor Ordered

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❤️ Threads is nearing X’s daily app users, new data shows

Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth.

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❤️ UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe

If you walked into a Dubai bank to apply for a mortgage in 2020, chances are you’d spend months buried in paperwork or face a huge price discrepancy when it came to listings. Such experiences led Jad Antoun to start Huspy, a startup streamlining how people in the UAE buy homes digitally. Over the pa…

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⚖️ The best Prime Day laptop deals: MacBooks, Windows 11 machines, Chromebooks and others already on sale

If your laptop simply isn’t cutting it anymore, Amazon Prime Day 2025 might have arrived just in time. As has been the case for the past few years, laptop deals are abundant this Prime Day, bringing discounts to MacBooks, Windows laptops, Chromebooks and more. But we wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t…