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Humans are greening the planet, but the implications are complicated
2016-07-15 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Earths climate is changing in fact, it always changes. But in the current context of human influence, scientists try to decipher how much of the change is natural compared to human-induced. One clear way humans influence the Earth is through the biosystem. For instance, farming changes the biosystem. By removing natural growth and planting annual crops that are harvested, we change the system in a way that could in turn affect other parts of the Earth system. In addition, the use of nitrogen...
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GMOs Complicated Food System Not Design Handle Complicated Problem
2016-05-24 12:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: This month, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an independent group created by Congress - released what is, to date, one of the most extensive reviews of genetically modified crops. The nearly 400-page report looks at everything from genetically modified crops` potential impact on human health to their impact on the environment. It`s a massive, hulking piece of scientific literature - the panel spent two years pouring over more than 1,000 existing studies on genetically modified crops, interviewing...
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Washington state will vote on a carbon tax this fall its complicated
2016-04-27 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As governments worldwide begin imposing fees on pollution to try to protect the climate, a debate over dueling approaches - one that has long been restricted to conferences and academia - is becoming prominent in Washington state. Washington voters will decide in November whether to introduce a carbon tax on fossil fuels and electricity from coal and natural gas, with the goal of slowing global warming while reducing taxes on sales and manufacturing and keeping total tax revenue flat overall....
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Are Smartphones Becoming Too Complicated?
2016-04-25 19:05:13| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Smartphone makers are cramming more functionality into smartphones, but this makes them more difficult to use.
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Scalia and Chevron: It's complicated
2016-02-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: In 1989, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- then a recent arrival on the bench -- delivered an emphatic endorsement of a court practice of deferring to agencies' expertise. Speaking to Duke University School of Law that January, Scalia was 2 years into what would become three decades on the court. The topic: judicial deference to agency actions. Deeply interested in administrative law, he'd taught it as a law professor before joining the court. "Administrative law is not for sissies," he...
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