Games go green at Sydney Olympic complex solar panels
The Sydney Olympic Games showcase environmental technology with solar panels on bungalows and venues powering the campus. BP Solar Australia helped install the panels and Greenpeace notes solar energy as a bright spot, calling the village the world's largest solar suburb. The system feeds excess power back to the grid, aiding nearby homes.
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Wondascie Gree Styne
Sydney
Olympic
Olympic Boulevard
Cindy Farrell
BP Solar Australia
Greenpeace
Rupert Posner
Homebush Bay
Posner
Farrelly
Olympic Village
Star Mira Brightness Changes Highlight Sky Watch
Joe Rao of the Hayden Planetarium notes Mira, a long known variable star in Cetus, cycles brightness roughly every 332 days from faintest to brightest. The article explains historical observations by Fabricius and Holwarda and gives instructions for using star maps to track Mira’s current light changes through Sunday night.
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Mira
Fabricus
Cetus
Holwarda
Aldebaran
Heneath
Joe Rao
Hayden Planetar
Giant Panda Fates and a San Diego Zoo Milestone
The article chronicles giant panda biology and conservation, detailing female breeding windows, embryo development, and why pandas are endangered. It highlights San Diego Zoo's role in panda research, Bai Yun and Shi Shi's breeding, Hua Mei’s birth, and Wolong's success with new births, while noting the global effort and the pandas’ fragile reproductive cycle.
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San Diego 13
China
San Diego Zoo
Bai Yun
Shi Shu
Pacific Bell
Zoo
Shi Shi
Hua Mei
United States
China USA
Barbara Durrant
Panda den
Durrant
North America
Pacific Bell Foundation
San Diego
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By Ryan Alessi
Scripps
Howard News Service
Sky Watch
NY Times News Service
Wolong
Sichuan
Bat Yun
Ron Swangood
Sandiegozoo.org
Hua Met
Hada
Flephote
the Associated Press
Jia Sia
Hong Kong
Ocean Park
Jia Jia
An An
Sichuan Province
World Wildlife Fund
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