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Earths Planetary Boundaries Disrupted by Human Activities
2015-01-16 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Human activities have "dangerously compromised" four of the nine processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet, warns an international team of researchers . In a study published online today, the 18 authors, from universities and research institutes around the world, provide new evidence of changes to the systems which regulate the resilience of the Earth, placing current and future societies at risk. Climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change,...
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U.S. scientists call 2014 Earth's hottest year on record
2015-01-16 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Last year was Earth's hottest on record in new evidence that people are disrupting the climate by burning fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases into the air, two U.S. government agencies said on Friday. The White House said the studies, by the U.S. space agency NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), showed climate change was happening now and that action was needed to cut rising world greenhouse gas emissions. The 10 warmest years since records began in the...
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U.S. agencies say 2014 was Earth's hottest year on record
2015-01-16 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Last year was Earth's warmest on record, bolstering the argument that humans are altering the planet's climate by burning greenhouse gas-emitting fuels, according to a pair of analyses by two major U.S. agencies released on Friday. Separate studies by NASA the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that with the exception of 1998, 10 of the warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. The reports come at the start of a year when representatives of about 200 governments...
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China scraps quotas on rare earths
2015-01-05 11:13:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
China scraps a quota system restricting exports of rare earth minerals after losing a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case.
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NASA releases spectacular video of Orion re-entering the Earths atmosphere
2014-12-22 18:59:07| Extremetech
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to look out the window of a spacecraft that's returning to Earth? Well, wonder no more: NASA has released some video footage captured out of the windows of the Orion capsule as it returned to Earth during its test flight a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it's sensational.
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