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State’s largest wind farm to be built in Sandhills

The Nebraska Public Power District, with the cooperation of four other utilities, are putting mother nature to work.

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USDA releases funds to restore wetlands in 20 states

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner has announced the availability of $5 million in the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) for restoration activities in 20 states.

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Coldplay Campaigns to Make Trade Fair in Nebraska

Coldplay is championing the Make Trade Fair campaign during the second leg of their "Twisted Logic" tour, January through April 2006.

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Lancaster moves to protect trees

Add Lancaster County to the list of Charlotte-area jurisdictions that are moving toward protecting their trees from clear-cutting by developers.

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Fossil “Pompeii” of Prehistoric Animals Named U.S. Landmark

The U.S. Department of Interior has designated Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds as a national natural landmark, the first such landmark to be designated in almost two decades.

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Robot device mimics human touch

US scientists have created a sensor that can "feel" the texture of objects to the same degree of sensitivity as a human fingertip.

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Warren Buffett donates $37 billion to charity

In what is believed to be the largest charitable gift made in the United States, the world's second richest man Warren Buffet plans to donate the bulk of his $44-billion (Rs 202,840 crore) fortune to...

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Fashion Made From Feathers? UNL Gives It A Try

From the farmyard to the fashion house, some University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers are taking unusable agricultural byproducts and spinning them into cloth.

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Buffett shares stock fortune

The five foundations that billionaire Warren Buffett has pledged most of his $49 billion (U.S.) fortune to received their second annual gift of Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. yesterday.

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Top ten cities announced as part of “Be a Better Planet” campaign

Yahoo! Inc. today announced that Hastings, Nebraska, has won its "Be a Better Planet" Greenest City in America challenge.

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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al)...

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Skies to be swept for alien life

The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.

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Wind Is Energy ‘Gift’ For Native Americans

Native Americans on the Great Plains are harvesting a new gift these days ... wind power.

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“We Didn’t Know He Was Clarence Thomas”

High school seniors Terrence Stephens and Jason Ankrah, star football players at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Md., were sitting on a plane returning from a recruitment session at the...

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EcoATM Arrives in Stores - Accepts Used Cell Phones, Spits Out Store Credit

Could gadget recycling get easier than this?

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Insurance Company Ordered to Pay $34 Million For Kicking 90-Year-Old Off Plan

An Omaha-based insurance provider has been ordered to pay more than $34 million after a jury in a Montana district court found the company in violation of Montana's unfair trade practices law and in...

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