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The final frontier

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A map made by the World Resources Institute with the help of other organizations revealed that only 20% of frontier forests remains in the world. An accompanying report indicated that only three countries have the opportunity to maintain their original forests.

Author: Stover, Dawn
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 1997
Analysis, Reports, Forests and forestry, Forests, Forestry research, World Resources Institute

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Power plants

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A description is presented of the largest greenhouse in the world which was built to house the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. Situated in a clay quarry the greenhouse complex covers 25-acres of land and houses 5,000 species of plants.

Author: Stover, Dawn
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 2001
Design and construction, Buildings and facilities, Plants, Plants (Organisms), Collections and collecting, Greenhouses, Botanical gardens, Eden Project

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Growing hearts from scratch

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Researchers have formed a consortium called Living Implants From Engineering in an attempt to produce new hearts using tissue engineering techniques. Issues concerning developments in heart engineering are discussed.

Author: Stover, Dawn
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 2000
Research, Product development, Cover Story, Heart, Artificial, Heart, Mechanical, Artificial heart

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