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U.K. probes whether strange, wet winter is part of a changing climate

2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: As Great Britain finds itself in the clutches of an extreme weather event, its scientists are inching closer to attributing this winter's unusual spate of floods and storms to climate change. As usual, however, they are moving cautiously. "In terms of the storms and floods of winter 2013/2014, it is not possible, yet, to give a definitive answer on whether climate change has been a contributor or not," concluded the United Kingdom's Met Office in a lengthy report published this week. But the...

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How 350.org went from strange kid to head of green class

2014-02-05 20:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: May Boeve grew up in the `90s, in a world where environmentalism was presented less as a social movement than as a personal lifestyle choice: buy a car that doesn`t use much gas, insulate your house, use energy-efficient lightbulbs, compost. So when she was an undergraduate at Middlebury College, she and a group of friends set out to practice environmentalism differently, taking their cues from the social justice movements they were learning about in history class (civil rights) and seeing play...

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Frankenstein's Cat: Biotechnology, Strange Creatures, and Us

2013-11-13 16:31:59| Biotech - Topix.net

I finally got around to reading a book with the catchy title, Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts , by journalist Emily Anthes, and I'm sorry I let it sit on my cluttered desk for as long as I did.

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