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China Pollution Levels Hit 20 Times Safe Limit
2014-10-10 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Days of heavy smog shrouding swathes of northern China pushed pollution to more than 20 times safe levels on Friday, despite government promises to tackle environmental blight. Visibility dropped dramatically as measures of small pollutant particles known as PM2.5, which can embed themselves deep in the lungs, reached more than 500 micrograms per cubic metre in parts of Hebei, a province bordering Beijing. The World Health Organizations guideline for maximum healthy exposure is 25. In the...
Foreign Employee Policy to Limit Added Value for Meat Processors
2014-10-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Canadian Meat Council warns reduced access to temporary foreign workers will take a toll on the ability of Canadian meat processors to add value to their products, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Is 2 Degrees the Right Limit for Global Warming? Some Scientists Say No
2014-10-01 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: For more than a decade international climate-policy discussions have revolved around a seemingly simple goal: Limit the rise in average global surface temperature to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). But a new paper argues that the two-degree target is not only increasingly unrealistic but also misleading. "More and more, it's a combination of fantasy and irrelevance," says David Victor, a professor of international relations at the University of California, San Diego, and the co-author...
USDA approves five-fold increase in tomato lycopene limit in RTE meat
2014-09-22 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Ready to eat (RTE) meat products will now be able to use up to five times more tomato lycopene as a colorant following approval from the US department of agriculture (USDA).
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Climate warning to world leaders: stick to 2C limit or face 'mayhem'
2014-09-21 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders must commit themselves to holding current rises in global temperatures to 2C. That is the stark message of experts and campaigners in the runup to the United Nations climate summit that will be held in New York later this week. They say that 2C is the maximum temperature increase that the world can tolerate without causing environmental mayhem, and they insist that politicians attending the meeting, including Barack Obama and David Cameron, must agree to that upper limit. "If...
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