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General Mills pledges $100 million to combat climate change
2015-09-01 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Last year, the poverty-fighting nonprofit Oxfam slammed 10 big food and beverage companies for not doing enough to fight climate change, and called out General Mills and Kellogg in particular for being "clear laggards." Now General Mills is trying to get its act together. On Monday, the food giant announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent in the next 20 years, and said it will be investing more than $100 million in renewables and improved energy efficiency in its facilities....
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Robotic Surgery Service helps hospitals brace for change.
2015-08-31 14:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Now that Intuitive Surgical, Inc.® has announced that it is decommissioning the Da Vinci S™ surgical robot, hospitals with robotic surgery programs need to think about robot replacement plans. ECRI Institute announces a new robotic surgery planning service designed to help hospitals and health systems navigate complexities of robotic surgery. As part of service, ECRI experts work with hospital decision makers to define clinical, safety, technology, and business requirements of robotic surgery.
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Climate Change Has The Earth In Hot Water
2015-08-31 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: It is understandable that people discussing global warming focus on air temperatures. Lower atmospheric temperatures are shown on the news and weather reports every day. We walk around in the air. We breathe it in. We talk about how hot its been this summer, how warm last winter was, or how this is the hottest day on record. But global warming is all about water. Water, not the atmosphere, drives the weather, and drives climate. The atmosphere is mostly affected by the water on Earth, not the...
Alaskan Greens: Obamas Words, Actions Conflict On Climate Change
2015-08-31 01:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUCB: President Barack Obama's visit to Alaska this week, aimed at highlighting his push to fight climate change, comes just two weeks after his administration approved drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Some Alaskan environmentalists see a disconnect between the president's rhetoric and his actions on climate change. The Obama administration hopes the Alaska trip--Obama arrives in Anchorage Monday afternoon--will help sell the president's proposals to rein in America's greenhouse gas emissions....
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Scientists search tea variety that can withstand climate change
2015-08-30 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: As climate change is affecting both quality and production of tea, scientists are testing which botanical varieties of the crop are resilient to climatic pressures. At Tea Research Association's Tocklai Experimental Station here, a team of scientists has created chambers where they are studying how the 200-odd varieties of tea found in the country would react under different climatic models. "We are testing the field varieties and we have also created 33 clones so far of the mother varieties....
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