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East Antarctic Melting Could Raise Sea Levels By 10 To 13 Feet, Study Finds
2014-05-05 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: A region of East Antarctica is more vulnerable than previously thought to a massive thaw that could result in world sea levels rising for thousands of years, a study found Sunday. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, looked at the 600-mile Wilkes Basin in East Antarctica, which, if it melted, has enough ice to raise sea levels by 10 to 13 feet. Researchers found that the region was vulnerable to melting because it`s held in place by a small "ice plug" that may melt over the...
Environment as important as genes in autism, study finds
2014-05-03 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to the largest analysis to date to look at how the brain disorder runs in families. Sven Sandin, who worked on the study at King's College London and Sweden's Karolinska institute, said it was prompted "by a very basic question which parents often ask: 'If I have a child with autism, what is the risk my next child will too?'" The findings, published in the Journal of the...
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Otis finds 'reshoring' manufacturing isn't easy
2014-05-03 17:14:11| Paper - Topix.net
United Technologies Corp. has found that bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. can be a lot trickier than it sounds.
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Canada finds China option no easy answer to Keystone snub
2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: It was February 2012, three months since President Barack Obama had phoned the Canadian prime minister to say the Keystone XL pipeline designed to carry vast volumes of Canadian crude to American markets would be delayed. Now Harper found himself thousands of miles from Canada on the banks of the Pearl River promoting Plan B: a pipeline from Albertas landlocked oil sands to the Pacific Coast where it could be shipped in tankers to a place that would certainly have it -- China. It was a country...
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Jury finds Samsung infringed some Apple patents, must pay $120M in damages
2014-05-03 02:44:44| InfoWorld: Top News
Apple was dealt a blow in its second major patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung when a Silicon Valley jury awarded the iPhone maker damages of just $119.65 million for Samsung's infringement of several of its smartphone patents. Apple had requested $2.2 billion in damages for what it alleged was massive infringement of five of its patents by nine models of Samsung smartphones and a single model of tablet.
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