Umicore is the most sustainable company on earth this year, according to a new ranking.
Millions of people around the world take part in Earth Hour year on year and we're always looking for innovative ways to get our message out there.
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The asteroid orbits the Sun in 368 days - a period similar to Earth's year - but it does not orbit in the same plane as the Earth.
For more information on physical threats that will not destroy the Earth in the year 2012, NASA has put up a handy website here.
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One of the major themes of Earth Week this year was lighting, as green lighting innovations ranging from the useful to the absurd made it onto Inhabitat's radar screen.
As we commemorate Earth Day this year, we reflect on the challenges that remain before us and recommit to the spirit of togetherness and shared responsibility that galvanized a movement 42 years ago.
The manoeuvre will put the probe on a path to flyby Earth in October next year.
China curtailed rare-earth quotas earlier this year, citing environmental concerns and efforts to quell smuggling.
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The festival is held every year on Earth Day weekend outdoors in Honolulu's Waikiki Shell.
The launching of the 10-year Future Earth initiative focusing on global sustainability solutions is an example of their commitment and that of their funders.
The company has since fallen back to earth, and last year its share price was trading below the 1, 000-yen level for the first time in over two decades.
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Kotov, together with a flight engineer TJ Creamer and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, are shortly set to follow the Atlantis crew back to Earth after half a year in space.
Mr Bennett, whose love of rocketry was inspired by the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, has predicted that he could put a small satellite in low Earth orbit by the year 2001.
Although you went on to recognise that human activity causes these natural flows to become unbalanced, it can actually take only two or three decades for humans to cumulatively emit an amount that matches those natural fluxes, given how long carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere and the low amount that the earth can absorb each year.
Over the next Martian year (687 Earth days), Curiosity will try to satisfy our curiosity about the world around us.
And earlier this year the Live Earth concerts were streamed live to the inhabitants of Second Life, garnering a sizable virtual audience.
But the A's have been back to the playoffs just once since 2003, while Tampa Bay has fallen to earth after a one-year joyride.
The asteroid trails debris behind it as it travels across the sky, and in January of each year, the Earth passes through that debris trail.
What on earth motivated a 48-year-old Chicago publishing executive to suddenly uproot his family and move to the wild west of Napa Valley back in 1973?
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"We'll be keeping an eye out for signs of a repeat performance next year when the Earth-moon system passes through the same region of space, " Cooke said.
This periodic reappearance of fresh frost takes place every Pluto-year (248 Earth-years) and is the reason that Pluto is one of the most reflective surfaces in the Solar System.
In the movie, Superman comes back to Earth after a five-year absence to find that Lois Lane - his true love - has a new boyfriend and a child.
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That's what happened in Plaquemines Parish, south of New Orleans, where Earth Biofuels of Dallas last year announced plans to restart an alcohol refinery, closed since the first ethanol boom went bust in the early 1990s.
In the year 775, the Earth was hit with a massive burst of radiation.
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The STARSHINE (Student Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Equipment) will orbit the Earth through the end of the year.
And some colleagues who intend to start producing 60 tonnes a year of a rare earth metal when then current market is perhaps 5.
So when an outfit called Earth Station 5 announced itself this year as a new peer-to-peer file-sharing service headquartered in the camp, internet downloaders and journalists paid attention.
Of course, during most of that 4.5 billion year history, the earth was not populated by intelligent life -- human beings who might have noticed the two events happening on the same day.
According to a report focused on rare earth elements performance for the upcoming year from A.L. Waters Capital, the firm highlighted some specific rare earths and their current prices compared to their peak prices.
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Continue on to Mobile and a Mitsubishi Electric plant is emerging from the red earth and, some time next year, will account for 6% of the world's supply of polycrystalline silicon for compact discs and microchips.
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