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Scientists Are Arguing About When, Exactly, Humans Started to Rule the Planet
2015-04-06 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateDesk: Signs of human impact on the planet are everywhere. Sea levels are rising as ice at both poles melts; plastic waste clogs the ocean; urban sprawl paves over landscapes while industrial agricultural empties aquifers. Between climate change, urban development, and straight-up, old-school pollution, the Earth we inhabit now would be scarcely recognizable to our earliest ancestors 150,000 year ago. In fact, these changes are so pronounced, and their connection to human activity so obvious, that many...
What clothes can I wear to help save the planet?
2015-04-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fashion has an edgy reputation, but its pretty conservative about fabric. Cotton still makes up a third of fibre production. The non-organic variety (only 4% of cotton used in fashion is sustainable) has a heavy eco burden, using 11% of all pesticides produced. Plus, it takes 20,000 litres of water to produce just 1kg. But most of our closet space goes to synthetic garments, which are derived from oil. The industry is huge, producing by my reckoning more than 80bn new garments a year. We...
Texas city opts for 100% renewable energy to save cash, not planet
2015-03-29 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: News that a Texas city is to be powered by 100% renewable energy sparked surprise in an oil-obsessed, Republican-dominated state where fossil fuels are king and climate change activists were described as the equivalent of the flat-earthers by US senator and GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. I was called an Al Gore clone, a tree-hugger, says Jim Briggs, interim city manager of Georgetown, a community of about 50,000 people some 25 miles north of Austin. Briggs, who was a key player in Georgetowns...
The future of GM: The greenhouses where Monsanto 'plays God' with the future of the planet
2015-03-24 04:10:23| Chemicals - Topix.net
In the second in our series on genetically modified crops, Oliver Wright reports from Kansas City - where science meets nature in the cause of feeding tomorrow's world Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature. Please read our Legal Terms & Policies If you travel from downtown St Louis at night on Highway 40 towards Kansas City and look out to your right you will see a strange bright white haze emanating from the horizon.
PAY.ON and Planet Payment Announce Strategic Partnership to Power Planet Payment's International Gateway
2015-03-13 11:31:12| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
MUNICH and LONG BEACH, New York PAY.ON, a worldwide partner for payment technology outsourcing, and Planet Payment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLPM), a leading provider of international and multi-currency payment processing services, today announced a partnership to enhance Planet Payment's international service offering with...
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