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Climate zones will shift faster as world warms
2013-04-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Earth's regional climate zones will shift more quickly in response to warming as the globe grows hotter in coming decades, according to a study published online in Nature Climate Change on Sunday1. This is likely to make it harder for species to cope, raising the risk of extinction. If these changes are happening faster and faster, it means that the ecosystems have less and less time to adapt, says Irina Mahlstein, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental...
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Petrol pumps in region shift to solar energy
2013-04-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: As you drive on Vaijapur road near Aurangabad, don't be surprised if you spot huge solar panels near petrol pumps. Harrowed by constant load shedding, owners of petrol pumps in the region, especially those in rural areas, are switching to solar power. Four petrol pumps located on the outskirts of Sillod, on Vaijapur road and Beed bypass road near Aurangabad, are currently running the petrol dispensing machines with the help of solar energy. Experts claim there are 75 petrol pumps in the country...
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Eurozone woes shift climate change focus
2013-04-18 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Not long after the European parliament cast doubt on the future of the EUs key policy to confront global warming, José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, huddled with his climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, in the VIP lounge at Strasbourg airport. Mr Barroso, according to people present, reassured Ms Hedegaard that he remained absolutely committed to tackling climate change in spite of MEPs rejection of her plan to prop up the EUs troubled carbon market. But beyond the...
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Route Change Forces Keystone Foes to Shift Aim to Climate Change
2013-04-17 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline used to have a simple argument: the project would endanger Nebraskas delicate Sand Hills region, a vast network of dunes and wetlands that have been designated a National Natural Landmark. State leaders, including Republican Governor David Heineman, opposed the project on those grounds. President Barack Obama cited the threat to water in the state before denying TransCanada Corp. (TRP) a permit last year to build the pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar...
IDC: PC sales drop precipitously, Mac sales also decline in major market shift
2013-04-10 23:20:55| InfoWorld: Top News
A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8, and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said today. Worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter totaled 76.3 million units, down 13.9 percent compared to the same quarter last year, IDC said in research released today.
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