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California just had its worst drought in over 1200 years, as temperatures and risks rise
2014-12-08 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Griffin & Anchukaitis concludes that the 20122014 drought in California was its most intense in at least 1,200 years. The study used drought reconstructions from tree-ring cores, from the North American Drought Atlas (NADA) and from cores Griffin & Anchukaitis collected from blue oak trees in southern and central California. Blue oak tree ring widths are particularly sensitive to moisture changes. According to Griffin, The...
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Biosecurity Stepped Up to Combat PED, Reduce Other Disease Risks
2014-12-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Executive director of the Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative says efforts to contain PEDv are also reducing the threat posed by other infections.
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Meat consumption risks climate goals
2014-12-03 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: An "awareness gap" about emissions from livestock could hamper efforts to curb climate change, a report warns. A survey showed that twice as many respondents thought emissions from transport were greater than from the global livestock sector. Yet emissions from the two sectors are almost equal, the study explained. It added that the goal of keeping the global temperature rise below 2C (3.6F) would be "off the table" unless there was a change in consumption patterns. "Unless something...
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Hillary Clinton says fracking carries risks in conservation speech
2014-12-02 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hillary Clinton has offered mild criticism of the fracking boom that has spread across the US under Barack Obamas presidency, drawing another small distinction with his administration. Clinton, who has yet to declare she is seeking the presidency, kept the bulk of her speech to a League of Conservation Voters dinner in New York resolutely vanilla. But she did express concerns about the environmental costs associated with natural gas and went so far as to suggest there may be places where it was...
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Too little sleep poses long-term health risks
2014-11-28 10:12:16| Biotech - Topix.net
We all know what it's like to get a lousy or short night of sleep: Tempers shorten, snacks become more tempting, attention gets harder to sustain. Researchers are just beginning to understand the long-term consequences of a lifetime of those rough mornings - and it doesn't look good.
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