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GM Crops Could Finally Be Grown In The UK After A Landmark EU Ruling
2015-01-13 19:08:56| Agriculture - Topix.net
Many British scientists, the government, and other groups are behind GM entering the country's agriculture industry. Currently there are no approved commercial commodities produced in Britain.
A landmark year for forests
2014-12-05 07:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Glenn Hurowitz is the head of the Forest Heroes campaign, an effort to shift agricultural expansion away from forests and peatlands. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. About one year ago today, I was pretty down. It was Thanksgiving night, and the Forest Heroes campaign, which I chair, had been running a big global campaign to persuade Wilmar International, Asias largest agribusiness company, to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuse throughout its enormous supply chain....
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Landmark Chinese-US climate deal leaves the others no excuse
2014-11-12 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The carbon emissions deal between China and the US, struck secretly and announced suddenly, has transformed the dynamic of climate change politics. With the exception of the EU, which has led the way on tackling climate change, the attitude of most countries has tended to be if you dont, why should we? But now the worlds two greatest polluters the one most responsible for historical carbon emissions and the one currently making the greatest contribution have teamed up to pledge dramatic...
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UN adopts new landmark climate change report
2014-11-01 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ANI: The United Nations' expert panel on climate science has finally adopted a report on global warming after all-night talks that will be later issued to public. The landmark report, which combines the findings of three earlier reports, offers "conclusive evidence" that a human are altering the Earth's climate system and has been adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Apart from discussing the human influence, it is expected to describe how climate impacts, including melting...
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United Nations panel adopts landmark climate report
2014-11-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The United Nations` expert panel on climate science on Saturday finished a report on global warming that the UN`s environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth`s climate system. The document, which combines the findings of three earlier reports, was adopted after all-night talks that went on until 5 am Saturday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The scientists and government representatives on the panel, who jointly approved the document...
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