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Europe tries to block new invasive species, but those driven by climate change get a pass
2014-05-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Cracking down on invasive species for the first time, the European Parliament has approved legislation to stop alien species of plants, animals and insects from entering the European Union and to limit their damage. "This is the only legislation in Europe tackling invasive species," said Baptiste Chatain, environment spokesman for the European Parliament. And while the new measure recognizes that global trade, transport, tourism and climate change may all contribute to the spread, it gives species...
Block Scientific Offers Special Pricing on the Advanced Myfuge Centrifuge
2014-05-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
A reliable laboratory equipment supplier based in New York, Block Scientific offers great weekly deals. This week, this reliable supplier is offering the advanced Myfuge Centrifuge at special pricing. This is a good opportunity for clinical laboratories to purchase a compact and efficient hand-held centrifuge at a competitive price.<br /> <br /> With its superior features and enhanced performance, the centrifuge assures quality diagnostic testing. It is ideal for quick spin downs of microtubes ...This story is related to the following:Laboratory Centrifuges
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Harvard divestment group block hall entrance and call for a meeting on fossil fuels investment
2014-05-02 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Students who launched the Divest Harvards Day of Action have blocked the entrance of the schools administration offices and called for a meeting with the president and the board of the university to discuss divesting from fossil fuels. The protest was set up with the aim of obtaining a meeting with Harvard trustees and president Drew Faust, in order to discuss the schools involvement with fossil fuels companies. Students have long been campaigning for the school to divest from these firms,...
Greenpeace Tries to Block First Shipment of Arctic Oil
2014-05-02 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Greenpeace activists try to stop the shipment of Arctic oil, get arrested This past May 1, a total of 31 members of environmental group Greenpeace were taken into custody by the Dutch police. As was the case last year, when 30 greenheads with the organization were put behind bars in Russia, the 31 activists arrested yesterday were protesting the oil industry. More precisely, they were harassing a Russian tanker dubbed Mikhail Ulyanov and trying to keep it from delivering oil to the European...
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Greenpeace Attempts To Block Russian Oil Tanker
2014-05-01 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Dutch police say they detained 31 Greenpeace activists Thursday as they attempted to prevent a Russian tanker carrying the first oil produced by a new offshore platform in the Arctic Ocean from mooring at Rotterdam Port. The environmental group sent two ships, plus a fleet of rubber rafts, paragliders and activists on shore, to meet the Mikhail Ulyanov, a tanker chartered by Russia's state-controlled oil company, Gazprom OAO. Activists painted the words "No Arctic Oil" in white letters on the hull...
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