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Google's mapping power harnessed to tackle global deforestation
2014-02-21 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: A major initiative has been launched this week under the banner Global Forest Watch, promising to use advanced satellite and analytics technology to lead a new crackdown on illegal deforestation. The project, orchestrated by the World Resources Institute (WRI), Google and a group of 40 businesses and NGOs, aims to harness the latest satellite tracking technology and "open data" models to provide "near-real time" information on tree cover loss. The group hopes that providing free access to monthly...
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NIH partners with 10 pharma companies to tackle major disease targets
2014-02-11 13:04:54| Food - Topix.net
The National Institutes of Health and 10 pharmaceutical companies have launched a partnership to transform the current model for identifying and validating promising biological targets for Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Firefighters tackle blazes in South Australia and Victoria
2014-02-09 13:38:20| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Fire crews have been battling blazes in South Australia and Victoria as the southern states endure a weekend of extreme weather conditions. Firefighters in SA spent Saturday tackling fires in Belair National Park in the Adelaide Hills and at Bangor in the Southern Flinders Ranges. Earlier, three water bombing aircraft were called in to support firefighters but have since been stood-down. One firefighter was hit by a falling branch and suffered a back injury while another has been treated for heat...
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It's time to tackle climate change with carbon tax
2014-02-09 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
HeraldNet: It is time to tax carbon. Washington state must apply this simple, fair, and effective solution to the problem of carbon pollution. Some threats call for careful examination, deliberation, and a measured response. Global warming once was one of these in 1975. Intervening years of accelerating carbon emissions have nourished the twin monster threats to our society that they cause: what we now call climate change and ocean acidification. Decades of inaction in the face of these building...
Texas Instruments, UT-Dallas team up to tackle sports concussions head-on
2014-02-08 08:04:55| Semiconductors - Topix.net
The University of Texas at Dallas and Texas Instruments Inc. have teamed up to develop technologies to determine if a player suffered a hit that could lead to a concussion.
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