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Inflatable dancing scarecrows save crops, Cornell study finds
2013-12-07 00:49:25| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards, Cornell study shows.
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Japan finds scrapping nuclear boosts pollution, fuel cost
2013-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Japan is finding the alternatives to nuclear power pollute more or come with higher fuel costs, limiting Prime Minister Shinzo Abes scope to reshape the energy industry almost three years after the meltdown in Fukushima. The government is due to publish today its first draft proposals on how to secure future power supplies as the reactors that provided more than a quarter of Japans electricity before the earthquake in 2011 remain closed. With 50 atomic plants off-line, coal use rose 26 percent...
Study finds some climate changes could slam us hard, and soon
2013-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country: Climate change may be progressing incrementally, but one of those increments is sure to produce abrupt, possibly irreversible changes, a new report says. Citing mass polar ice melt, ocean dead zones and the potential for mass extinction across plant and animal species, the National Research Council has issued a report warning of what might happen in the near future, what will take longer, and phenomena whose timing is unclear. One thing is clear: We do not know what we are messing with. "Research...
Mexico finds stolen radioactive material amid dirty bomb fear
2013-12-05 01:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mexican police have found dangerous radioactive medical material stolen by thieves that the United Nations said could provide an ingredient for a "dirty bomb," the country's national nuclear safety commission CNSNS said on Wednesday. The truck was found on Wednesday close to where it was stolen outside Mexico City. The thieves removed the radioactive material from a protective case, exposing them to dangerous levels of radiation then dumped it less than a mile away. The truck was stolen on...
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CRC ACES Phase 2 report finds emissions from modern heavy-duty diesels well below required levels
2013-12-04 20:30:22| Green Car Congress
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