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It turns out that tall buildings are a bigger threat to birds than wind power
2016-05-31 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Donald Trump criticized the wind-power industry this week for killing birds. A far bigger threat is real estate developers and their tall buildings. About 599 million birds are killed annually in the U.S. when they fly into windows, trailing only loss of habitat and cats as the top causes of bird deaths, according to the National Audubon Society. Wind turbines account for about 234,000. Wind turbines are way at the end of the list of threats to birds compared to fossil fuel development, oil pits,...
Clean Energy to Take Bigger Share of Electricity Market by 2030
2016-05-29 11:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Renewable energy will account for 40 percent of electricity output capacity by 2030, almost double todays market share, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. The expansion will be due to lower technology costs, Adnan Amin, Irenas director general, said in an interview on Bloomberg TV in Dubai. We anticipate with the lower technology cost, by 2030 were going to have renewables capacity in the global power system at around 40 percent, which is quite remarkable growth. That compares...
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Giant Squid Could Be Bigger Than a School Bus
2016-05-27 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Giant Squid Could Be Bigger Than a School Bus The deep-dwelling creatures could reach lengths of at least 66 feet, says a provocative new study-but not everyone is convinced. An 1870 engraving by artist Edward Etherington imagines the kraken, a legendary sea monster, as a giant squid. If a startling new study is right, giant squid up to 66 feet (20 meters) long may dwell in the open ocean. The estimate is nearly twice as large as some prior findings, which had pegged the beast's maximum...
Mayor, police chief lobby for bigger budget
2016-05-13 19:16:51| PortlandOnline
KGW Staff, May 12, 2016
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Bigger brains led to bigger bodies in our ancestors
2016-04-18 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â New research shows that a strong selection to increase brain size alone played a large role in both brain- and body-size increases throughout human evolution. This phenomenon also may have… <a href=”http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/1134…
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