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SOS 54 years ago warned about vanishing glaciers
2013-12-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: At a time when glaciers are melting at an alarming pace, an SOS buried in a bottle 54 years ago in the Canadian Arctic, and unearthed now, sent a distress signal about the world's rapidly disappearing glaciers. An American geologist Paul Walker, concerned about the melting of ice, buried a message in a bottle during his exploration of Ward Hunt Island in Nunavut, Canada, in 1959. He measured the distance - about 1.2 metres - from a glacier to where he buried the message in a bottle, requesting...
Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement to protect the Amazon
2013-12-23 00:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Twenty-five years ago today, Chico Mendes, an Amazon rubber tapper, was shot and killed in front of his family at his home in Acre, Brazil at the age of 44. His assassination was the catalyst that sparked a much broader movement to protect the Amazon against rampant deforestation. The movement empowered a new generation of forest people and activists and would eventually culminate in millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest being set aside in reserves. But while the deforestation rate has...
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Novelis investing $205M to expand global automotive aluminum capacity to 900,000 tons annually, up 3x from a year ago
2013-12-17 17:30:19| Green Car Congress
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Evidence of Mass Extinction Associated With Climate Change 375 Million Years Ago
2013-12-14 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Members of a U.N.-sponsored research team with members from Appalachian State University's Department of Geology have found evidence for catastrophic oceanographic events associated with climate change and a mass extinction 375 million years ago that devastated tropical marine ecosystems. "The Late Devonian mass extinction was one of the five largest mass extinction events in the history of life," said Professor Johnny Waters, who is a co-leader of the five-year, U.N. International Geoscience...
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Hog Outlook: October Pork Exports up Compared to Year Ago
2013-12-09 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Pork exports during October were down 11.7 per cent compared to a year ago due to big declines in shipments to Russia and South Korea. Exports equaled 20.06 per cent of November pork production, write Ron Plain and Scott Brown.
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