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Weather Extremes Show Food Security Should be Major Concern
2014-02-13 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Extreme weather events like those experienced around the world in recent months have shown the importance of ensuring everything is done to protect agricultural land and enable farmers to meet future food production challenges, NFU President Peter Kendall will tell MPs today (Wednesday).
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Climate change: Weather of Olympian extremes
2014-02-09 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In the Climate Games, a number of contenders have already achieved personal bests. California is in the deepest drought for more than a century. The United States began the year with a record fall in the mercury, blizzard conditions in the north-east and a world-class anomaly in the state of Michigan, where, to the joy of headline writers, a small town called Hell froze over. Australia in 2013 had its hottest year ever and its hottest summer and conditions this January were near record levels...
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Fanless Embedded Computer operates in temperature extremes.
2014-02-05 14:30:43| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Operating from -40 to +70°C, vibration-resistant AEC-6523 is powered by Intel® Atom™ N2600 Dual Core 1.6 GHz processor and Intel NM10 chipset. Standard features, in addition to 2 DDR3 (800/1,066 MHz) SODIMM slots that support 2 GB max memory, include 2.5 in. SATA 2 (3.0 Gbps) HDD drive bay, CFast™ slot, and 4 USB2.0, 2 Gigabit LAN, and 3 RS-232 ports. Operating from 9–30 Vdc, ruggedized computer also integrates voltage protection and mini-card slot for expansion. This story is related to the following:Controls and ControllersSearch for suppliers of: Embedded Controllers | Embedded Computers |
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Protecting Tanzanias Farmers from Weather Extremes
2013-11-14 10:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: When Habiba Msoga from Kiroka village, in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, first began applying a method of rice cultivation that was different from what her fellow farmers traditionally used, they laughed at her. But now three years later, as she falls asleep each night in her newly built brick home that will soon have electricity, she could not be happier. "When I started some people were laughing at me because they thought it was impossible to grow rice without flooding the field. But I have...
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Haiti, Philippines hardest hit by weather extremes in 2012: study
2013-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were hardest hit by weather disasters in 2012, a report issued at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday showed, as the death toll mounted from the latest typhoon to devastate the Philippines. Germanwatch, a think-tank partly funded by the German government, said poor nations had suffered most from extreme weather in the past two decades, and worldwide, extreme weather had killed 530,000 people and caused damage of more than $2.5 trillion. "The unfolding human tragedy...
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