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Post-wildfire erosion can sculpt forested mountains
2016-04-21 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Erosion after severe wildfires can be the dominant force shaping forested mountainous landscapes of the U.S. Intermountain West, suggests a new research paper by two University of Arizona geoscientists. The study is the first to assess the impact of wildfires on such landscapes by combining several different ways to measure short-term and long-term erosion rates, said study co-author Jon Pelletier, a UA professor of geosciences. After the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico, soil and rock eroded...
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Green entrepreneurs tackle Indonesia's growing trash mountains
2016-03-17 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some residents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, frustrated by the mounting trash problem across the sprawling metropolis, have started taking matters into their own hands. Hamidi, a young "green entrepreneur" became so concerned by the overflowing Jakarta city dump that he began turning discarded plastic into fuel. "At the very beginning I just wanted to start a business," said Hamidi, who started his waste-to-energy initiative a year ago in Tangerang, a satellite city about 25 km (15 miles)...
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Mountains in Central Appalachia Flatter Post-Mining
2016-02-05 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Mining has not only moved mountains; it has made them flatter. That's according to a new study from Duke University, which looked at data from 40 years of mountaintop coal mining in Central Appalachia. The research concluded that those mountain areas are now 60 percent more flat than they were before the excavation work. In the research, scientists looked at topographic data of southern West Virginia sites from before and after the mining. In part, they were examining how such mines can affect...
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Deep in Israel desert, shimmering glass mountains
2016-02-03 13:00:59| Beverages - Topix.net
Tiny shards, millions of them, are piled into rolling hills of green and brown. They are 50 feet high and span the length of a few soccer fields.
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Keurig Green Mountain's (GMCR) "Neutral" Rating Reaffirmed at Susquehanna
2016-02-02 15:21:45| Beverages - Topix.net
's stock had its "neutral" rating reaffirmed by analysts at Susquehanna in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday, MarketBeat.com reports. They currently have a $92.00 target price on the coffee company's stock.
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