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Melting permafrost: Scientists warn of dangers of trapped carbon
2013-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Research published Thursday in the journal Science says that even slightly warmer temperatures could start melting permafrost, which in turn threatens to trigger the release of huge amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in ice. The frosty dungeon hides a dark secret. At least a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's landmass is frozen and, like a vault, it holds 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon. This unimaginably high quantity of carbon comes from countless generations of creatures that have lived and died...
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White House warns of dangers posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, other 'hacktivists'
2013-02-20 22:58:57| CNET News.com
New Obama administration strategy says organizations such as WikiLeaks and hacking group LulzSec may conduct "economic espionage against U.S. companies." [Read more]
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Grisly Trend: Green Activists Are Facing Deadly Dangers
2013-02-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Where is Sombath Somphone? With every day that passes, the fate of one of Southeast Asias most high-profile environmental activists, who was snatched from the streets of Laos in December, becomes more worrisome. His case has been raised by the State Department and countless NGOs around the world. But the authorities in Laos have offered no clue as to what happened after Sombath was stopped at a police checkpoint on a Saturday afternoon in the Lao capital of Vientiane as he returned home from...
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Avoiding virus dangers in 'domesticating' wild plants for biofuel use
2013-02-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources, researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild for use in biofuels, plants such as switchgrass. However, attempts to "domesticate" wild-growing plants have a downside, as it could make the plants more susceptible to any number of plant viruses. In a presentation at this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Michigan State University plant biologist Carolyn Malmstrom said that when we start...
Efforts to Reduce Farming Dangers Showing Progress
2013-02-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NEW ZEALAND – Farm safety and rural depression initiatives have had positive effects on the welfare of the rural population, according to Federated Farmers of New Zealand.
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