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Climate change could kill off Andean cloud forests
2013-09-18 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: One of the richest ecosystems on the planet may not survive a hotter climate without human help, according to a sobering new paper in the open source journal PLoS ONE. Although little-studied compared to lowland rainforests, the cloud forests of the Andes are known to harbor explosions of life, including thousands of species found nowhere else. Many of these species-from airy ferns to beautiful orchids to tiny frogs-thrive in small ranges that are temperature-dependent. But what happens when the...
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President Obama's Officials: Rule Won't Kill Coal-Fired Power
2013-09-18 06:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's top energy and environmental officials said Wednesday there is a future for coal, despite a pending regulation aimed at limiting global warming pollution from new power plants that Republicans and the coal industry say will doom the fuel source. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, questioned at a House hearing, both said coal-fired power would continue. Coal makes up about 40 percent of U.S. electricity. "The rule will provide certainty...
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Antibiotic resistant bugs kill thousands yearly in U.S.
2013-09-16 23:54:07| Biotech - Topix.net
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the agency is seeing an increase in resistance rates for many microbes.
State plans to step up flushing the system with chlorine which is supposed to kill the amoeba
2013-09-13 14:48:55| Biotech - Topix.net
Additional test results from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm the presence of the rare ameba Naegleria fowleri in four locations of the St. Bernard Parish water system, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced Thursday.
Verizon, facing protest, won't kill wireline phone in hurricane-damaged area
2013-09-12 09:25:43| Telecom - Topix.net
After the communications infrastructure of Fire Island was wiped out by Hurricane Sandy, Verizon decided it didn't want to rebuild severely damaged wireline phone networks.
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