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Study finds road traffic pollution increases risk of death for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis patients

2013-09-09 13:30:27| Green Car Congress

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Climate study finds humans had a hand in some extreme weather

2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: A new report finds evidence that human-induced climate change played some role in last years U.S. heat waves and several other 2012 extreme weather events worldwide. The study released Thursday, written by scientists from 11 nations and edited by U.S. and British federal scientists, explored 12 extreme weather events and found some human influence in about half of them. The report shows that the effects of natural weather and climate fluctuations played a key role in the intensity and evolution...

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Oryx Petroleum finds oil and gas at E-1 well, Congo

2013-09-06 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

Oryx Petroleum has discovered oil and gas at the E-1 exploration well targeting the Elephant prospect in the Haute Mer A licence area in Congo (Brazzaville).

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Almost 90 percent of Internet users have taken steps to avoid surveillance, survey finds

2013-09-05 13:47:40| InfoWorld: Top News

A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University. While 86 percent of the Internet users polled said they made some attempt hide what they do online, more than half of the Web users also said they have taken steps to avoid observation by organizations, specific people or the government, according to the survey.

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British water vole population slumps by more than one-fifth, survey finds

2013-09-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The crystal-clear water races over the stones, a heron cries and the smell of wild mint rises on the warm air. But there is one thing missing from this bucolic scene: the telltale swish of the reeds or sudden liquid plop that betrays a water vole. The creature immortalised as Ratty in The Wind in the Willows is vanishing from the British countryside, with the population slumping by more than onefifth, according to a new five-year survey. On the banks of the River Chess in the Chilterns,...

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