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Oil Companies Cut Pay So They Don't Have To Fire People
2015-10-13 19:34:33| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Oil companies worldwide have been forced to lay off over 200,000 people since the price of crude fell below $50 a barrel earlier this year. Facing little change in prices, companies are now slashing wages to cope with continued profit loss.
In 2050 there will be 9 billion people on earth?. How to feed them
2015-10-13 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tis the season of harvest festivals and farmers are celebrating another bumper crop. British farmers have this year twice smashed the record for the worlds highest-yielding wheat crop ever recorded, first in the Lincolnshire Wolds and then on a farm overlooking Holy Island in Northumberland. Squeezing ever-higher yields from the same fields is one reason why the famous theories of Thomas Malthus, the cleric who predicted catastrophic famine and disease as population growth outstripped food production,...
Nebraska feedyard keeps flies controlled, people happy
2015-10-13 14:44:40| Beef
While flyswatters are a lot of fun to employ in the battle with bugs, you really want your feedyard cowboys riding pens and filling feed bunks, not hanging around the cowboy shack swatting flies.
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El Nio could leave 4 million people in Pacific without food or drinking water
2015-10-11 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two dozen people have already died from hunger and drinking contaminated water in drought-stricken Papua New Guinea, but the looming El Nio crisis could leave more than four million people across the Pacific without enough food or clean water. The El Nio weather pattern when waters in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean become warmer, driving extreme weather conditions may be as severe as in 1997-98, when an estimated 23,000 people died, forecasters believe. In Papua New Guineas Chimbu...
App for Rating People Draws Withering Scorn
2015-10-07 22:54:26| TechNewsWorld
Canadian businesswoman Julia Cordray's plan to launch Peeple, a Yelp-like app that would let people post reviews about other people, has drawn fierce criticism in the tech press and the blogosphere, including a petition against the app's launch and a Twitter campaign to boycott it. "It's a legal and ethical minefield," said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, a research director at 451 Research.
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