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Threatened small islands call for "concrete" climate action
2013-04-30 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The latest round of U.N. climate talks, a second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), resumed this week in Bonn, Germany. As so often seems to be the case, the meeting began against the backdrop of alarming news about climate change from the scientific community. Researchers at the Mauna Loa laboratory confirmed that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are on track, this month, to exceed 400 parts per million for sustained lengths of...
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New Channel Islands Branch for BIFM
2013-04-26 10:47:00| BIFM News
BIFM is set to support the facilities management profession in the Channel Islands through the launch of a dedicated Branch serving the area.
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Prysmian Awarded Contract for Cable between Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Ibiza in Spain
2013-04-25 21:46:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract worth approximately 85 million euro by REE (Red Eléctrica de Espaa, S.A.U.), the Transmission System Operator of the Spanish electricity system, for the second circuit of the interconnection between the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Ibiza. read more
Scientist Says Pollution From China Is Killing a Japanese Islands Trees
2013-04-25 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A mysterious pestilence has befallen this islands primeval forests, leaving behind the bleached, skeletal remains of dead trees that now dot the dark green mountainsides. Osamu Nagafuchi, an environmental engineer with a passion for the island and its rugged terrain, believes he knows the culprit: airborne pollutants from smog-belching China, hundreds of miles upwind. For years, Mr. Nagafuchis theory was ignored by fellow scientists and even mocked by bureaucrats in the national government who...
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Less rainfall expected for the Hawaiian Islands
2013-04-23 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Almost imperceptibly, rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since 1978, and this trend is likely to continue with global warming through the end of this century, according to a team of scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. This latest Hawaii rainfall study, published in the March 13, 2013, early online issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, supports previous work conducted at the University of Hawaii. What has been...
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