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Roads could help protect the environment rather than destroy it, argues Nature paper
2013-03-22 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Rapidly expanding road networks are causing large-scale damage to forests but proper infrastructure planning and implementation could actually turn them into a net positive for the environment, argue researchers writing in the journal Science. William Laurance and Andrew Balmford highlight the severe environmental impacts of roads in wilderness areas, including fostering illegal logging, poaching, colonization, and land speculation. "More than 95% of deforestation, fires and atmospheric carbon...
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MetroPCS again argues for T-Mobile merger
2013-03-18 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Hedge funds Paulson & Co. and P. Schoenfeld Asset Management push for better terms, an alternative bidder, or remaining independent.
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Harvard professor argues geoengineering needs oversight
2013-03-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Large-scale projects that could temper or reverse the effects of climate change by blocking some incoming sunlight or manipulating the atmosphere have long been unpopular on two opposing fronts. On one side are those worried about the unintended consequences and doomsday scenarios that could be set off by careless experiments. On the other are those who believe such research is important, but to support it now will detract from the urgent need to cut greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global...
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Operator argues to restart ailing Calif nuke plant
2013-02-26 21:02:05| Energy - Topix.net
The plant between Los Angeles and San Diego has been shut down for more than a year after the discovery of unusual damage to tubes that carry radioactive water.
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Working less would slow climate change, group argues
2013-02-08 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Want to save the planet? Stop going to work. That's the conclusion of a report from Washington think-tank the Center for Economic and Policy Research this week. The report makes the claim that even a 0.5 per cent annual reduction in the length of the average workweek could be enough to cut between eight and 22 per cent of every degree of global warming that's expected between now and 2100. The CEPR is a left-leaning think-tank based in Washington, D.C. Although scientific opinion on the topic...
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