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China's War on Air Pollution May Cause More Global Warming
2015-03-09 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: China's efforts to improve urban air quality are often viewed as a helper for fighting climate change, but a new joint China-U.S. study says otherwise. The study--carried out by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University in Beijing--was released last week. It shows that China's strategies for cleaning up air do not necessarily lead to carbon dioxide emissions reductions. Sometimes, according to the study, the efforts could actually increase emissions. The...
Syria war drought link
2015-03-08 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The conflict that has torn Syria apart can be traced, in part, to a record drought worsened by global warming, a new study says. In what scientists say is one of the most detailed and strongest connections between violence and human-caused climate change, researchers from Columbia University and the University of California Santa Barbara trace the effects of Syrias drought from the collapse of farming, to the migration of 1.5 million farmers to the cities, and then to poverty and civil unrest....
How climate change contributed to Syria's civil war
2015-03-06 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MPR: A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science draws a connection between climate change and the civil war in Syria. A devastating drought in the region from 2007 to 2010 forced a mass migration to the cities. That dramatic social change fomented a rebel movement and government backlash that has killed more than 200,000 people since 2011, according to the United Nations. The Pentagon has listed climate change as a national security thread since 2010. Last...
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Trian's Proxy War With DuPont Revives Dormant Voting Debate
2015-03-04 15:38:26| Chemicals - Topix.net
I'm a staff writer on Forbes' investing team, where I cover banks, asset managers and corporate mergers. I'm on the lookout for the next big thing being pitched on Wall Street and I like to tell the good, the bad and the ugly stories of deal making that investors missed.
SLOW BURN: Waging war against landfill fires
2015-03-03 22:15:06| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
"With landfills, you dont know whats under there, and even the best records wont tell you whats there. Its a lot of unknowns." Ryan Stambaugh, Hellfire Suppression The post SLOW BURN: Waging war against landfill fires appeared first on Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.
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