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Indonesia: Logging giant suspends operations fend off plantations from fire
2014-03-16 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesian Pulp & paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) says it has suspended operations at a concession in Riau Province in order to shift staff toward fighting back fires that threaten its plantations. In a statement issued Friday, APRIL said its plantations on Pulau Padang, a peat island off the coast of Sumatra, are at risk due to fires illegally set outside its concessions. "The fires are starting outside our forest concessions but with the heavy, circular winds,...
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What killed off the giant beasts climate change or man?
2014-03-15 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: They were some of the strangest animals to walk the Earth: wombats as big as hippos, sloths larger than bears, four-tusked elephants, and an armadillo that would have dwarfed a VW Beetle. They flourished for millions of years, then vanished from our planet just as humans emerged from their African homeland. It is one of palaeontology's most intriguing mysteries and will form the core of a conference at Oxford University this week when delegates will debate whether climate change or human hunters...
Australia's GHD, Canada's Conestoga-Rovers Merge Into $1.5-Billion Design Giant
2014-03-12 21:40:57| ENR.com: Headline News
Stock swap will allow firms to stay employee-owned as they extend global reach.
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A Successful Mix Earns Industry-Leading Margins for this Parcel Delivery Giant
2014-03-11 19:56:42| Air Courier - Topix.net
United Parcel Services is the world's largest parcel delivery company. Each business day, the firm transports an average of 16.9 million packages across 220 countries and territories.
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The mystery of flight MH370: How can we track a smartphone anywhere on Earth, but a giant plane can go missing?
2014-03-10 14:34:05| Extremetech
Three days ago, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from radar off the south coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea. 239 people were on board -- and at this point, it is presumed that they have all perished in some kind of disaster. For me, this is almost incomprehensible: Despite all of the awesome technology that mankind has developed, it's still possible for a Boeing 777-200 with 239 people on board to vanish. Surely, given the fact that we can track a damn smartphone anywhere on Earth down to a few meters, there's a better way of keeping track of missing aircraft?
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