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VIDEO: Can tourism boost Irish fortunes?
2013-07-28 10:15:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Tourism officials are hoping an initiative billed as a year-long celebration of Ireland will boost its fortunes since the the collapse of the country's Celtic Tiger economy.
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Antarctica permafrost melt spurred by solar radiation boost
2013-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA times: Accelerated melting of buried ice in a dry valley of Antarctica may be a harbinger for widespread thawing of permafrost at Earth's far latitudes as worldwide climate patterns change, according to a new study. The tenfold increase from ancient melt rates evident in a dry valley near McMurdo Bay over little more than a decade comes despite a local two-decade cooling trend. Cliff-face measurements of the buried ice in the four-mile-long Garwood Valley revealed melt rates that shifted from a creeping...
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Strategic Growth Initiative Grant Program to Boost Michigan's Growing Food and Agriculture Industry
2013-07-26 01:38:56| Agriculture - Topix.net
Today, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director Jamie Clover Adams announced a $3 million grant program designed to break down barriers inhibiting the growth of Michigan's food and agriculture industry.
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Tropical Ecosystems Boost Carbon Dioxide as Temperatures Increase
2013-07-25 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Unlike in other parts of the word, tropical ecosystems are capable of generating significant carbon dioxide when temperatures rise, an international team of researchers has found. Specifically, the scientists discovered that a temperature increase of just 1 degree Celsius in near-surface air temperatures in the tropics results in an average annual growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide that is equivalent to one-third of the annual global emissions caused by the combustion of fossil fuels and...
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Mapping of Oil Palm Genome Could Boost Productivity of Key Crop, Study Says
2013-07-25 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Scientists say they have identified the gene responsible for the yield of oil palm crops, a discovery that could boost the productivity of the worlds top source of vegetable oil and help reduce the size of oil palm plantations in the worlds tropical regions. Writing in the journal Nature, Malaysian and U.S. researchers describe the mapping of the genome of the oil palm, whose products are used in everything from food to cosmetics to biofuels. According to the scientists, the so-called shell gene...
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