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DAK Americas focusing on PET growth and recycling in Argentina
2014-06-19 04:07:50| Chemicals - Topix.net
DAK Americas expects to introduce local production of its heat-set Laser+HS PET resin for hot-fill applications with PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Co.
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Dried up: poverty in America's drought lands
2014-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deseret News: This story is part of the Deseret News National Edition, which focuses on the issues that resonate with American families. In more than two decades working at a Central California food bank, Sandy Beals has never seen anything like this spring. Last month alone, FoodLink of Tulare County served 22,000 people who came in for food - 5,000 more than it usually serves each month and a 12 percent increase from the same month last year. For Beals, who runs the food bank, the spike in hunger traces...
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1 Under the Radar Stock to Play America's Biggest Oil Patch
2014-06-15 01:43:38| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Technological advances and the rapid growth in horizontal drilling have unlocked a number of exciting plays within West Texas' Permian Basin that are believed to have unparalleled resource potential.
Coffee Crop Disease, Spurred by Climate Change, Threatens Latin America's Economic Foundation
2014-06-14 09:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Latin Post: Much of Latin America's identity is shaped by coffee; its importance is difficult to overstate. Beyond being a delicacy and a morning-time motivator in Latin America and abroad, it is one of Latin America's major exports, sustaining independent farmers in rural areas as well as corporate bankers in metropolitan areas. But the last decade has proven difficult: changing climate patterns have exaggerated plagues and droughts in the region, and this has produced less than desirable conditions for...
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Climate changes threatens Americas king corn
2014-06-13 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The days of "king corn" could be numbered as climate change brings higher temperatures and water shortages to America`s farmland, a new report warned on Wednesday. Nearly one third of U.S. farmland is devoted to raising corn and the country produces about 40 percent of the world`s corn crop. But the $1.7 trillion industry - the equivalent of Australia`s GDP - is under threat from water shortages, heat waves, and unpredictable rainfall caused by climate change. "Corn is an essential input to...
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