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Floods, forest fires, expanding deserts: the future has arrived
2014-09-28 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change is no longer viewed by mainstream scientists as a future threat to our planet and our species. It is a palpable phenomenon that already affects the world, they insist. And a brief look round the globe certainly provides no lack of evidence to support this gloomy assertion. In Bangladesh, increasingly severe floods triggered, in part, by increasing temperatures and rising sea levels are wiping out crops and destroying homes on a regular basis. In Sudan, the heat is causing the...
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Exclusive: Hines fires up new community near Exxon Mobil campus
2014-09-26 17:02:32| Chemicals - Topix.net
Hines is developing lots for 310 home in its newest community, Laurel Park North, located near the new Exxon Mobil campus north of Houston. In April, the international real estate developer acquired 130 acres on the east side of David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport, near FM 2920 and Stuebner Airline Road.
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Meters eyed as possible cause of Nevada fires
2014-09-24 11:38:47| Electronics - Topix.net
Nevada utility officials said Tuesday they will turn over all data demanded by state regulators investigating whether smart electricity meters pose a fire danger. The state fire marshal and local fire chiefs sought the preliminary inquiry after investigators linked the meters to nine fires in Reno and Sparks since 2012, with the most recent resulting in a death in July.
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Regulators probe NV Energy smart meter fires
2014-09-24 00:25:03| Electronics - Topix.net
State regulators have demanded NV Energy turn over data on smart meter failures as they launch a preliminary investigation into whether the 1.1 million meters they've installed on homes across Nevada pose any fire danger. The Reno Gazette-Journal first reported last week that fire investigators had documented nine fires in Reno and Sparks since 2012 that they say originated at the smart meters.
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Cargill fires first shot in legal battle over GMO trade responsibility
2014-09-15 02:06:51| Chemicals - Topix.net
Cargill Inc's [CARG.UL] lawsuit against Syngenta AG over rejections of genetically modified U.S. corn by China may be just the start of legal challenges against global seed makers over trade with one of the world's biggest markets. Trading giant Cargill said in court documents on Friday that it had lost more than $90 million because Syngenta sold Agrisure Viptera corn, known as MIR 162, to U.S. farmers without first obtaining import approval from China, which has turned away boatloads of U.S. crops containing the variety over the past year.
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