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Seagrass gardens are needed to cap the carbon bomb in the oceans
2015-10-21 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Stopping the underwater carbon emissions time bomb could require widespread seagrass transplantation. Seagrass is up to 35 times more efficient at sequestering carbon than rainforests, and stores it for millennia in the sediment below. But over the past century 29 per cent of global seagrass has been destroyed and as a result it has been estimated that it is releasing carbon at a rate similar to the emissions of Australia and the UK combined. Now an analysis of a seagrass disturbance shows that...
Pakistan's climate change 'time bomb' is already ticking
2015-10-20 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become too expensive to eat. It sounds like the stuff of dystopian fiction but it could be the reality Pakistan is facing. With its northern glaciers melting and its population surging - the country`s climate change time bomb is already ticking. In a nation facing violence and an unprecedented energy shortage slowing...
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Biotech bomb hits small cap index
2015-09-27 21:36:47| Biotech - Topix.net
The $8B iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF fell 4.9% on Friday and 13% for the week - its worst weekly performance since the height of the financial panic seven years ago. Many biotech ETFs eat the same cooking - Gilead , Amgen , Biogen , and Regeneron among the popular names - and FBT , XBI , and BBP fell in amounts similar to IBB.
Storefront System resists bomb blasts.
2015-09-18 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Engineered for high-security in low- and mid-rise building projects, ForceFront™ Blast 34000 Series features 2 ½ x 5 in. flush-glazed system and screw-spline framing, glazed with 1 15/16 in. laminated glass positioned in center of frame. System comes in non-thermal version or with single poured-and-debridged thermal improvement option, both accommodating insulated glass. ForceFront™ Blast 34000 Series is tested to meet blast performance of 6 psi peak pressure at 42 psi-msec impulse.
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Texas school mistakes student's homemade clock for a bomb
2015-09-16 19:02:00| American School & University
14-year-old boy with Islamic-sounding name was arrested, but after words of support from President Obama and thousands of others, police now say the student will not be charged. read more
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