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Countries just adopted a historic climate change accord. Heres what happens next
2015-12-14 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The word historic, already being used to describe the just-accepted Paris climate agreement, is more than warranted. The world will now have a new and comprehensive regime in place to shape how its diverse nations go about the urgent task of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Thats why climate activists are ecstatic the world over right now. Its a big deal. The more ambiguous news, however, is that this document, by its very nature, depends on key sectors of society to respond to...
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Can the Paris agreement protect poor farmers from climate change?
2015-12-14 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows and goats that produce milk, grows trees for fodder, and collects water to irrigate her food crops in a pond filled with tilapia fish. Since she started out in the 1970s, she has overcome increasingly erratic rainfall by using new technologies and trying out different crops and trees. She even turns her animal manure into biogas, harnessing...
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Why AI still sucks in video games and how DirectX 12 could change it for the better
2015-12-14 13:14:40| Extremetech
It's 2015 -- why does the AI in most games still suck? We delve into why AI has actually gotten worse as graphics have gotten better, and explore how DirectX 12 could indirectly improve things by giving graphics room to scale across threads.
How Trees Try to Cope With Climate Change
2015-12-14 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery News: Imagine that youre lost in a desert, or some other inhospitable environment. Youve got two choices. One is to stay in place and conserve supplies and water, in order to make them last. The other is to push on tenaciously and hope that you find a way out of your predicament. As it turns out, trees are like that too, when it comes to coping with the hotter, drier environment created by climate change. In a new article in the journal Global Change Biology, University of Washington researchers studied...
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Auto Industry CEOs Unite In Rare Vow To Tackle Climate Change
2015-12-14 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Its not easy to get the worlds major automakers to agree on anything. But even before last weekends landmark climate change agreement by world leaders in Paris, 13 auto industry chief executives from the U.S., Europe and Asia had pledged to accelerate the development of cleaner vehicles to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. The CEOs of General Motors, Ford Motor, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Nissan-Renault Alliance, Volvo Group, Beijing Automotive Group and Indias Mahindra & Mahindra, along...
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