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World Leaders Urged to Kick Coal Habit to Save Lives, Money and Planet
2015-06-06 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Leaders of G7 countries at this weekends summit in Germany are being called on today to show leadership by pledging to end all coal burning for electricity generation in the industrialized world. Let Them Eat Coal, a report by the international relief charity Oxfam, explains how it can be achieved without financial difficulty, and warns that continuing to burn coal will kill millions because of the food shortages that climate change will cause. The report is endorsed by a group of scientists,...
Pull the plug on comatose servers to save money and the planet
2015-06-05 22:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Data centers use two to five percent of all the power created in the US during any given year. Using 2013 as an example, the Natural Resources Defense Council estimates the amount of power used by US data centers was 91 billion kWh. Peak demand One area that's been a struggle for operators is balancing the number of servers needed to meet peak demand vs. the cost of having servers powered up and standing by in case of a computing surge. Depending on the sources cited the electricity wasted to power...
7 Epic Droughts Devastating the Planet
2015-06-03 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Every inhabited continent, to varying degrees, faces extremely high water stress. That means that in certain areas more than 80 percent of the local water supply is withdrawn by businesses, farmers, residents and other consumers every year. Not all of that water is consumed--it may flow back into a river after its used and be available again downstream--but the demand still creates competition where it is needed. These stressed areas are also the ones most vulnerable to episodic droughts. With...
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Earth-like alien worlds may have circular orbits just like our own planet
2015-06-03 17:30:36| Extremetech
Researchers from MIT and Aarhus University studied 74 Earth-sized exoplanets at distances up to hundreds of light-years away, and found that the planets orbit their 28 parent stars in much the same manner as our own.
The UAE reaches for the Red Planet
2015-05-29 01:00:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Reaching for the Red Planet
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