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In Virtual Mega-Drought, California Avoids Defeat
2014-10-06 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: A few years ago a group of researchers used computer modeling to put California through a nightmare scenario: Seven decades of unrelenting mega-drought similar to those that dried out the state in past millennia. "The results were surprising," said Jay Lund, one of the academics who conducted the study. The California economy would not collapse. The state would not shrivel into a giant, abandoned dust bowl. Agriculture would shrink but by no means disappear. Traumatic changes would occur...
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Lauder Expands Efforts\nTo Defeat Breast Cancer
2014-10-01 15:41:39| Happi Breaking News
It's not just for October anymore.
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Beverage Industry Pours Money Into Campaign To Defeat Berkeley Soda Tax Ballot Measure
2014-09-24 04:31:45| Beverages - Topix.net
The American Beverage Association has donated another half-million dollars to fight a Berkeley ballot measure that would tax sodas and other sugary drinks. The contribution by the beverage industry is in addition to an earlier $300,000 donation to the No on Measure D campaign, and is believed to be the largest single campaign donation in the city's history.
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How The 'Black Fingers Of Death' Can Help Defeat Climate Change
2014-09-09 16:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: This small city on the Wasatch Front south of Salt Lake City seems an unlikely locale for what could turn out to be an important battle against climate change. But here, in a modest building housing the U.S. Forest Services Shrub Sciences Laboratory, research ecologist Susan Meyer and her colleagues are working laboriously to defeat a tenacious alien plant, cheatgrass, once dubbed the invader that won the West. If they succeed and a broad effort is launched to restore millions of acres of degraded...
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QinetiQ Secures Second DSTL Contract to Support Implementing a Systems Approach to Defeat Small Boat Threat
2014-08-29 12:01:00| Naval Technology
QinetiQ has been awarded a contract by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to carry out additional research into generating quality situational awareness to enable the coordination of the defence of a vessel against the surface threa
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