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Canada files WTO complaint against Chinese dissolving pulp duties
2014-10-16 01:12:41| Agriculture - Topix.net
Canada has filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization over China's imposition of dumping duties against Canadian exports of a kind of wood pulp used to make rayon for clothes and other products. The duties, starting at 13 per cent, have been imposed against a number of companies, including Fortress Paper and Tembec , which exported $317 million in dissolving pulp to China last year.
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"The ocean so acidic is dissolving the shells of our baby oysters"
2014-05-26 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Treehugger: The short video below tells the story of how climate change - more specifically ocean acidification - is affecting the life of fifth-generation small oyster farmers off the coast of Washington state. It was made by The Story Group, an independent journalism company that uses storytelling to covering "critical issues of our time". I think it's a great idea to break up the rather abstract concept of 'climate change' into more concrete pieces that show how it's affecting people and ecosystems more directly....
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Acidic ocean water is dissolving sea snail shells
2014-05-04 15:37:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Times: Increasing acidity of the ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails called pteropods, according to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The pteropod is a free-swimming snail found in oceans around the world that grows to a size of about one-eighth to one-half inch. The evidence of corrosive waters impacting the snails, which provide food for pink salmon, mackerel, and herring, was discovered by a research team at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory...
Dissolving shells on the West Coast
2014-05-03 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Evidence now indicates that acidity of West Coast continental shelf waters is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming marine snails, called pteropods, the major food source for pink salmon, mackerel and herring. Funded by NOAA, the study estimates the percentage of pteropods in this region with dissolving shells due to ocean acidification has doubled in the nearshore habitat since the pre-industrial era and is on track to triple by 2050 when coastal waters become 70 percent more corrosive than...
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Snails are dissolving in Pacific Ocean
2014-05-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: An increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails that live along North Americas western coast. The broad finding, which has surprised some researchers, suggests that sea life is already being affected by changes in the oceans chemistry caused by rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. It really changes the game by demonstrating that acidification is having a noticeable impact, says biological oceanographer Jan Newton, co-director of the Washington...
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