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Workers attack Air France managers, forcing them to flee
2015-10-05 14:07:41| Airlines - Topix.net
Air France director of Human Ressources, Xavier Broseta, right, and Air France assistant director long-haul flight, Pierre Plissonnier, center, are protected by a police officer as they flee Air France headquarters at Roissy Airport, north of Paris, after scuffles with union activist, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. Union activists protesting proposed layoffs at Air France stormed the headquarters during a meeting about the job cuts, zeroing in on two managers who had their shirts torn from their bodies, scaled a fence and fled under police protection.
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People Power Is Forcing Climate Change on the Election Trail
2015-09-12 14:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In late August, the Canadian Medical Association voted to divest it's holdings in fossil fuels. The vote came at the end of a summer that saw both the British Columbia Government Employees Union and the United Church of Canada pass similar resolutions. It's a powerful statement to have three major institutions representing thousands of workers, people of faith and medical professionals come to the same conclusion that a safe climate means leaving fossil fuels in the ground, but it also juxtaposes...
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Climate change forcing boreal forest to a tipping point
2015-08-20 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Budapest Report: "Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century," said IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program researcher Anatoly Shvidenko. "It is urgent that we place more focus on climate mitigation and adaptation with respect to these forests, and also take a more integrated and balanced view of forests around the world." Boral forests are believed to be among the ecosystems that are most sensitive to climate change. These forests thrive in regions such as Canada, Russia and...
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Sudden shift in 'forcing' led to demise of Laurentide ice sheet
2015-06-23 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the continent took precedence, ultimately leading to the sheet's demise. Researchers say a shift in 'radiative forcing' began prior to 9,000 years ago and kicked the deglaciation into overdrive. The results are important, scientists say, because they may provide a clue to how ice...
Luminant ends agreement, forcing contractor to cut more than 300 jobs
2015-04-29 15:32:25| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Dallas-based Luminant told CB&I Stone & Webster Inc. last week that it would discontinue the teaming agreement the companies have for the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in Glen Rose, Texas. CB&I will cut 322 jobs at that location.
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