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Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner

2014-03-26 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Arizona State University: Results from a new study co-authored by Netra Chhetri, a faculty member at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, show global warming of only 2 degrees Celsius will be detrimental to three essential food crops in temperate and tropical regions. And beginning in the 2030s, yields from those crops will start to decline significantly. "This study has been able to quantify the likely impacts of differing degrees of climate change on yields, by crop and by region,'...

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Oil prices rise on speculation Fed could hike interest rates sooner

2014-03-20 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

Oil prices rose today on speculation that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) could raise interest rates sooner and faster than previously thought, which indicated economic strength in the world's top oil consumer.

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Ballmer regrets not aping Apple sooner

2014-03-05 13:29:06| InfoWorld: Top News

In his first public appearance since he stepped down as Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer again acknowledged that the company missed the boat on mobile. But this time he put a different spin on his answer, evoking the business model of Microsoft's arch rival, Apple. "The thing I regret is that we didn't put the hardware and the software together soon enough," Ballmer said, referring to smartphones specifically, but mobile in general.

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