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Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns
2014-10-31 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Amazon rainforest has degraded to the point where it is losing its ability to benignly regulate weather systems, according to a stark new warning from one of Brazils leading scientists. In a new report, Antonio Nobre, researcher in the governments space institute, Earth System Science Centre, says the logging and burning of the worlds greatest forest might be connected to worsening droughts such as the one currently plaguing So Paulo and is likely to lead eventually to more extreme...
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California governor OKs bills to regulate groundwater amid drought
2014-09-16 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: California Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of bills on Tuesday to regulate California's stressed groundwater supplies amid a drought that is expected to cost the state $2.2 billion in lost crops, jobs and other damages, with no end in sight. The bills will allow the state to take over management of underground aquifers and water accessed via wells, and aim to tighten oversight of water at a time when groundwater levels are shrinking in the third year of a catastrophic drought. "We have to...
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EPA beginning process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft under Clean Air Act
2014-09-05 12:30:42| Green Car Congress
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Bills to regulate California groundwater use opposed by farmers
2014-08-26 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A package of bills aimed at regulating drought-parched California's stressed groundwater supplies has come under fire from agricultural interests, injecting doubt into the measures' fates in the waning days of the state's legislative session this week. The bills, which would allow the state to take over management of underground aquifers and water accessed via wells, tighten oversight of water at a time when groundwater levels are shrinking in the third year of a catastrophic drought. If we...
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Leading cancer organizations urge FDA to regulate all tobacco products
2014-08-12 18:43:45| Logistics - Topix.net
The American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology , in a joint letter responding to a proposal by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to extend its regulatory authority over tobacco products, today urged the agency to regulate electronic cigarettes , cigars, and all other tobacco products and to strengthen ... (more)
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