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River Forest IL Real Estate Market Report: December 1, 2014
2014-12-02 00:41:54| Real Estate - Topix.net
There were 5 condos and 2 single family homes reported as sold within the last month in River Forest IL. The sold condos ranged from $135,000-$449,000, and the single family homes sold for $350,000 and $1,475,000.
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Forest fires around Chernobyl could release radiation, scientists warn
2014-11-29 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A consortium of Ukrainian and international scientists is making an urgent call for a $13.5m (8.28m) programme to prevent potentially catastrophic wildfires inside the exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl's ruined nuclear power plant. The fear is that fires in the zone could release clouds of radioactive particles that are, at the moment, locked up in trees, held mainly in the needles and bark of Scots pines. The consortium says an automated fire detection and monitoring system and new firefighting...
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"Beyond Carbon" Benefits of Forest Carbon Markets
2014-11-25 10:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Much of the discussion during next month's international climate negotiations in Lima, Peru will revolve around halting tropical forest loss to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. But Ecosystem Marketplace's latest report on the voluntary and compliance markets shows forest carbon projects already having an impact -- an impact that could multiply if the right policy signals are sent. The global markets for offsets from agriculture, forestry, and other land-use projects transacted 32.7...
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Indonesia finalizes forest reference emission levels
2014-11-25 10:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antara: The Managing Body for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (BP REDD+) is familiarizing all stakeholders with the Forest Reference Emission Levels (FREL) as the final step before it is passed as a state document. The government is set to subject the state document for discussion at the 20th United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCC), which will be held in Lima, Peru, on December 8. "This is the result of all the hard work put in for nine years by the...
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Fracking to be permitted in GW National Forest
2014-11-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmentalists and energy boosters alike welcomed a federal compromise announced Tuesday that will allow fracking in the largest national forest in the eastern United States, but make most of its woods off-limits to drilling. The decision was highly anticipated because about half of the George Washington National Forest sits atop the Marcellus shale formation, a vast underground deposit of natural gas that runs from upstate New York to West Virginia and yields more than $10 billion in gas a year....
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