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Interview – Singapore, Asia’s newest emerging geothermal market

ThinkGeoEnergy

Many people are already familiar with Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and China as some of the leaders of geothermal development in Asia. However, they noticed that there was wet soil with faint traces of steam around the boarded area. The team inserted thermometers into the wet soil, finding that the temperatures exceeded 90°C.

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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

It’s quiet, dark, and cool, even on a summer day. In the spring, as the sun beams down and melts snow and ice elsewhere, hemlock preserve circles of snow at their trunks, which leech slowly into nearby streams and creeks and keeps them cool. times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. Grist / Zoya Teirstein.

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