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Silvercar offers a car rental experience that doesn't suck
2015-02-08 11:42:39| Wireless - Topix.net
Think about your last car rental experience. It probably sucked. Think about your last ten car rental experiences, did they all suck too? Did you get a boring domestic fleet car, with no options, while paying too much and wasting time at a crowded rental car counter? Silvercar , a new player in the car rental game, is changing that game by offering the combination of an awesome car, reasonable pricing and an easier process.
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Southern forests' ability to suck carbon from the air may be slowing
2015-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When U.S. Forest Service scientist David Wear hikes the trails crisscrossing the Appalachian Mountains, he pauses to revel not only in the beauty and solitude, but to consider the remarkable role that the forest around him plays in the world's environment. "A walk in the woods is as much recreation as intellectual stimulation for me," Wear said. "I see questions about whats happening in the changing dynamics of the forests." One of those questions: How are today's forests doing when it comes...
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No option left but to suck CO2 out of air, says IPCC
2014-04-14 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: It is a beguiling idea: grow crops that suck carbon dioxide from the air, burn them to generate electricity, then bury the resulting CO2. The result? Less CO2 in the air, and less climate change. This idea's time has come. The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, says "widespread" use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will probably be needed to stop the world warming by 2 °C, the politically agreed danger...
AUDIO: HS2 could 'suck' business from North
2014-03-17 15:49:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
An opponent of HS2 has claimed there is "no academic evidence" that the HS2 rail line would grow the economy.
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Bees exposed to neonic pesticides suck at gathering pollen
2014-01-31 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: First plant STDs, and now this? Bees these days just can`t catch a break: New research shows that bumblebees that have been exposed to neonic pesticides are hopeless when it comes to gathering food. British scientists reared commercial bumblebees for two weeks on sugar and pollen laced with imidacloprid, which is one of the world`s most commonly used insecticides. The pesticide concentration mimicked that found in farmed oil seed rape, which is grown for biofuel, vegetable oil, and animal feed....
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