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Virus Study May Signal Trouble for Animal Populations Facing Climate Change

2013-02-01 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Aside from rising sea levels, many climate change models predict that in the future, the planet's temperature and weather will become increasingly erratic with wild, unpredictable storms and fluctuating conditions. A new study from researchers at the University of Florida and Yale University and published today by the journal Evolution investigated how an organism -- in this case, a simple virus -- adapts to temperature change when that change comes in different ways: constant, in a recognizable...

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Comment - Soft Drinks Tax: More Trouble Than it's Worth?

2013-01-29 19:23:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

It was another busy day for the PR folk who have to defend the soft drinks industry yesterday.

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European Carbon Market in trouble

2013-01-27 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EurActive: EU carbon prices briefly slid 40% to a record low after politicians opposed plans to support the market, raising concerns prices could hit zero and sending a warning to European governments to pull together in lowering carbon emissions. Prices in the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Thursday (24 January) dropped to 2.81 a metric tonne after a vote in the European Parliament's energy and industry committee opposing a scheme known as "backloading" - or supporting prices by extracting allowances...

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