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Anthropogenic warming in west Pacific likely contributed to the 2014 drought in East Africa
2015-11-05 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: It comes as no surprise to geographer Chris Funk that East Africa has been particularly hard hit with back-to-back droughts this year and last. In fact, he and colleagues at the UC Santa Barbara /U.S. Geological Survey's Climate Hazards Group (CHG) predicted the area's 2014 event based the increasing differential between extremely warm sea surface temperatures in the west and central Pacific Ocean. Now with the same data set, CHG scientists have confirmed not only that this temperature differential...
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United Technologies to lead talks on sustainability in Middle East
2015-11-04 23:14:11| Paper - Topix.net
DOHA: Convening sustainability thought leaders with green building professionals in emerging economies, United Technologies Corp. hosted Distinguished Sustainability Lecture Series events in Doha, Qatar, and Abu Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on November 3 and 4. This is the 15th lecture series event in the Middle East since 2011. The level of awareness regarding green buildings and sustainability has grown significantly in recent years in the Middle East.
Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?
2015-11-04 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IT`S been called the cradle of humanity, but the significance of East Africa`s Turkana basin in human history is still unclear. Now some ancient herbivore teeth are revealing the region`s special climate around the time our genus Homo first appeared. Turkana, part of the Great Rift Valley straddling Kenya and Ethiopia, has been a hallowed site for the study of human evolution ever since Maeve and Richard Leakey began uncovering fossils there in the 1960s. Ranging from Australopithecus to our own...
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East Grand Rapids mayor re-elected; 2 new commissioners win seats
2015-11-04 09:57:25| Grocery - Topix.net
About 76 percent of East Grand Rapids endorsed Seibold for a second four-year term in a vote that came six months after she spearheaded a successful vote for a city road tax . The final tally in the mayoral vote was 1,452 to 459 for Seibold.
Keystone XL pipeline postponement bid ups pressure on Energy East proposal
2015-11-04 06:16:07| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling announced the company is moving forward with the 1.1 million barrel-per-day Energy East Pipeline project at a news conference in Calgary in 2013 Like a game of pipeline whack-a-mole, a bid by TransCanada Corp., to suspend its controversial, north-south Keystone XL pipeline proposal has elevated the west-east Energy East pipeline plan to the top of Canada's political agenda. "With Keystone now delayed, even more important we approve Energy East," Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall posted on his Twitter account Tuesday while the U.S. State Department was still chewing over TransCanada's postponement bid.
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