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Swelling lakes pose threat to Tibet rails
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Swelling lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a notable sign of global warming, are threatening the safety of the worlds highest railway, according to climate and ecological experts. One flooded lake is now only 8 kilometers away from a section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the depopulated area of Hol Xil Nature Reserve, according to the latest satellite monitoring by the Qinghai Provincial Academy of Meteorological Sciences. Liu Baokang, engineer with the academys remote-sensing and ecological...
Wood fires and diesel cars pose pollution threat: EU watchdog
2013-10-15 09:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution is dangerously high across many parts of Europe, resulting in premature deaths, ill health and huge economic losses linked to reduced crop yields, Europe's environmental watchdog said on Tuesday. While emissions of some pollutants have declined sharply in Europe in recent decades, more diesel cars and a rise in wood burning by households as a cheap alternative to gas mean other types of harmful pollution are receding more slowly. European regulators are expected to propose a tightening...
Malicious browser extensions pose a serious threat and defenses are lacking
2013-09-26 23:33:48| InfoWorld: Top News
Although the number of malicious browser extensions has significantly increased in the past year many security products fail to offer adequate protection against them, while others are simply not designed to do so, according to a security researcher. Attackers have already used such extensions to perform click fraud by inserting rogue advertisements into websites or by hijacking search queries, but research has shown that this type of malware has the potential to cause much more damage.
New e-commerce strategies pose a threat to UPS, FedEx
2013-07-16 10:56:17| Trucking - Topix.net
SAN FRANCISCO: UPS and FedEx may be worried about international shipments to slowing economies like China, but perhaps they should be more concerned about what's going on in their own backyards.
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New e-commerce strategies pose a threat to UPS, FedEx
2013-07-15 22:20:08| Air Courier - Topix.net
SAN FRANCISCO: UPS and FedEx may be worried about international shipments to slowing economies like China, but perhaps they should be more concerned about what's going on in their own backyards.
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