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Eve Ensler connects the dots between violence against women and violence against the planet
2013-02-07 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Eve Ensler made it OK to say the word vagina out loud. Could she now inspire more of us to say climate change too? Ensler, the artist and activist behind The Vagina Monologues, is currently making a big push to promote One Billion Rising, a global event planned for this coming Valentine`s Day, aka V-Day. She`s calling for people everywhere to "dance, rise up, and demand an end to violence against women." The campaign was inspired by a U.N. estimate that one in every three women will experience...
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Lungs of the planet reveal their true sensitivity to global warming
2013-02-06 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Tropical rainforests are often called the "lungs of the planet" because they generally draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. But the amount of carbon dioxide that rainforests absorb, or produce, varies hugely with year-to-year variations in the climate. In a paper published online Feb 6 2013 by the journal Nature, a team of climate scientists from the University of Exeter, the Met Office-Hadley Centre and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, has shown that these variations reveal...
Upping the steaks: How grass-fed beef is reshaping ag and helping the planet
2013-02-01 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Bartlett Durand is the rare local-food entrepreneur who has no trouble turning a profit: Durands Black Earth Meats processes and sells grass-fed beef, and these days grass-fed beef sells like crazy. Located near Madison, Wis., Black Earth is an abattoir, an old-fashioned butchery containing everything from a slaughterhouse to a retail store. Its sales have doubled in four out of the last five years. Durand expects them to jump again this year, from $6 million to $10 million. Orders have poured...
How do corals survive in the hottest reefs on the planet?
2013-02-01 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Catherine Beswick catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) Coral reefs are predicted to decline under the pressure of global warming. However, a number of coral species can survive at seawater temperatures even higher than predicted for the tropics during the next century. How they survive, whi…
Green Planet Announces Solutions For Reducing Green House Gasses
2013-01-28 01:01:11| pollutiononline News Articles
Green Planet Group, Inc. (OTC Markets:GNPG) announces today that it is formally publishing the independent test results for its hydrogen technology that dramatically reduces pollution and green house related gasses
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