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Dow Chemical posts huge fourth quarter losses
2013-01-31 16:08:05| Chemicals - Topix.net
Dow Chemical saw significant deterioration in key markets during the fourth quarter, particularly in China, and is posting a wider fourth-quarter loss.
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The huge scale of illegal logging in DRC laid bare
2013-01-31 03:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Deep in the vast rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, chainsaws are buzzing. Heavy machinery rumbles and growls, as loggers slice their way through the forest. Three newly published investigations have confirmed that much of this logging work is illegal - and all of the biggest players in the industry are behind it. This includes members of the Fédération des Industriels du Bois (FIB), the countrys all-powerful lobby of multinational loggers, which supplies most of the Congo timber...
Feeding its people, India also confronts huge climate change challenge
2013-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: India has to find a new model of development if the twin challenges of job creation and climate change are to be met, says an Oxford University academic, Barbara Harriss-White, of the Oxford Department of International Development. "At present economic development in India is looked at very much in terms of catching up with Europe and East Asia", says Professor Harriss-White, a South Asia expert and part of an Oxford-based team investigating greenhouse gas emissions in India's informal economy...
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Synthetic fertilizer operations have a huge appetite for fracked natural gas.
2013-01-30 14:00:34| Chemicals - Topix.net
In a recent Nation piece , the wonderful Elizabeth Royte teased out the direct links between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the food supply.
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Bloomberg Makes Huge Contribution To His Alma Mater
2013-01-28 07:29:28| IT Services - Topix.net
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged $350 million to Johns Hopkins University, mainly to expand its interdisciplinary research on an array of issues including global health and urban revitalization as his lifetime giving to his alma mater eclipses $1 billion.
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