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Environmentalists await Unesco verdict on future of protected Tasmanian forests
2014-06-16 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Unesco world heritage committee is about to rule on a proposal to have 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest delisted in order to open it up to the timber industry. It is also debating whether or not to list the Great Barrier Reef as highly endangered because of pollution. If the forests were delisted, Australia would be the first developed country to have the protected status of a natural environment reversed on economic grounds. The government has claimed that the area subjected to logging...
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What's the future of the office? Getting you out of your chair
2014-06-16 15:39:28| Furniture - Topix.net
If there was one theme to NeoCon 2014, it was movement. Nearly every office furniture company's new collection included a sit-to-stand table option at the Chicago trade show.
Papua New Guinea: My dive into the blighted future of acidified oceans
2014-06-16 09:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: I HAVE gazed into the future of the tropical oceans, and it's not a reassuring sight. In Papua New Guinea, the Ring of Fire has bestowed a unique gift on science - an underwater vent of pure carbon dioxide. Normally researchers projecting the effect of rising CO2 must rely on computer models. But here they can observe it for real as the CO2 bubbles dissolve to form carbonic acid, creating on a small scale the conditions expected globally by the end of the century. At first it is a beguiling...
U.N. climate talks fracture over future carbon markets
2014-06-16 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The use of carbon markets to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions was dealt a blow on Sunday after two weeks of United Nations talks on designing and reforming the mechanisms ended in deadlock. The negotiations, held as part of U.N. climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, made scant progress as envoys representing almost 200 nations tied reforms to progress under the wider discussions and remained entrenched in diverse positions. The stalemate gives investors little sign that there will be a...
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LORD Corporation Opens New Houston Office For Future Growth
2014-06-16 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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