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Nobel prize winners warn leaving EU poses 'risk' to science
2016-06-11 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Leaving the EU poses a "key risk" to British science, a group of 13 Nobel prize-winning scientists have warned. The group, which includes Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, and geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, say losing EU funding would put UK research "in jeopardy". "Inside the EU, Britain helps steer the biggest scientific powerhouse in the world", the group claim. Vote Leave said it was a "myth" that funding came from Brussels. 'Critical mass' In a...
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Zika May Spread Through Oral Sex--And Through Kissing, Scientists Warn
2016-06-06 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Amid increasing number of Zika cases in the world, scientists are now raising the possibility that the virus may be transmitted not only through vaginal sex but also by oral sex and kissing. In a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine, scientists cited a case in France where a 24-year-od woman was infected with the virus after having sex with her partner, a 46-year-old man who returned to Paris from Rio de Janeiro, which has the most number of infected people. While in Brazil, the man...
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Energy superpower status threatened world shifts fossil fuel federal think-tank warn
2016-06-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: How Canada can move to 100% clean energy Could Bay of Fundy tides generate enough power for all of Atlantic Canada? Why green energy prospers as fossil fuel prices fall: Don Pittis Alberta resource revenue plunges to historic low, raising sales tax spectre Caught up in the dispute: How Alberta's economic future is tied to Iran and Saudi Arabia Walking on sunshine: How Okotoks banks heat for homes External Links Canada's status as an "energy superpower" is under threat because the global dominance...
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Canada, U.S. Warn of Eight Chemicals in Great Lakes
2016-06-01 06:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Canada and the United States have identified eight substances in the water of the Great Lakes as chemicals of mutual concern under the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. These chemicals are potentially harmful to human health or the environment or both. Canada and the United States work together under the agreement to identify chemicals that are in the Great Lakes because of human activities and that cause mutual concerns. Smoke from a factory pours out over Lake Erie. (Photo...
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Extreme weather increasing level of toxins in food, scientists warn
2016-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned. A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says that crops such as wheat and maize are generating more potential toxins as a reaction to protect themselves from extreme weather. But these chemical compounds are harmful to people and animals if consumed for a prolonged...
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