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2 New York City colleges may limit student protests

2013-12-11 17:18:00| American School & University

Cooper Union and City University of New York are considering changes in student codes of conduct. Schoolhouse Beat read more

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Water Scarcity May Limit Fracking In UK

2013-12-09 10:42:30| oilandgasonline News Articles

The fracking industry in the UK may run into trouble because it relies heavily on a scarce resource: water.

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Temperature limit too high to avoid climate change: study

2013-12-04 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: An internationally agreed target to limit rises in global average temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius is around double the threshold that would avoid catastrophic climate change, a study by 18 eminent scientists said. Governments decided in 2009 that such temperature increases needed to be no more than 2 degrees C (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels to avoid effects such as more extreme weather, higher sea levels and ocean acidification. They aim to agree by 2015 on a global deal...

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Safe Limit for Global Warming Is Lowered Dramatically by Experts

2013-12-03 23:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: Unless significant, steady reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels begin extremely soon, the Earth might be much closer to potentially catastrophic warming than is widely believed. So argues climatologist James Hansen of the Columbia University Earth Institute and an international team of colleagues in a new analysis published today in the journal PLOS One. Their paper further underscores other recent studies showing that even small delays in shrinking the industrial...

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