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Thousands of Ontarians still without power after severe thunderstorm
2015-08-04 05:44:13| Energy - Topix.net
About 900 hydro workers are trying to restore power to thousands of Ontarians still in the dark after a destructive thunderstorm. Hydro One spokeswoman Alicia Sayers says the utility has called in all of its staff to work on reconnecting about 20,000 customers.
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Agrarian settlements drive severe tropical deforestation across the Amazon
2015-08-01 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Resettlement projects in the Amazon are driving severe tropical deforestation -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Cāmara dos Deputados (the Brazilian Lower House). Widely hailed as a socially responsible and 'innocuous' strategy of land redistribution, agrarian reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale. But a study published in PLOS ONE reveals that these farmer resettlement projects are far...
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Severe Droughts Affect Forests And CO2 Storage for Years, Study Shows
2015-07-31 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Severe drought can affect a forest's growth for up to four years, a period during which it is less effective at removing carbon from the atmosphere, a new study reports in the journal Science. Standard climate models have assumed that forests and other vegetation bounce back quickly from extreme drought, but that assumption is far off the mark, the researchers say. Looking at data from more than 1,300 forest sites dating back to 1948, they found that living trees took an average of two to four years...
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International Truck to Introduce New Line of Premium Vocational Trucks as Navistar, Caterpillar Conclude Severe Service Truck Agreement
2015-07-30 12:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Navistar Will Leverage Intellectual Property, Technology for New Line of Vocational Trucks Launching in Early 2016 Company Will Continue to Manufacture Cat-branded Severe Service Trucks Through 2016 LISLE, Ill., Navistar, Inc. today announced that it will launch a new line of premium vocational trucks for the...
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New Report Reveals The Severe Economic Impacts Climate Change Will Have In The South
2015-07-28 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Climate change is set to hit the Southeast United States and Texas hard. That`s the conclusion of a new report from the Risky Business Project, a nonprofit that focuses on the economic impacts of climate change. The report, which focused on 12 states - 11 states in the Southeastern United States plus Texas - found that the increased heat and humidity that these states are expected to experience as the climate changes will put the region`s recent manufacturing boom at risk. "While the Southeast...
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