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Magid: Verizon, Epson change the way they charge customers
2015-08-20 23:23:07| IT Services - Topix.net
Epson's new line of EcoTank printers and multifunction devices is changing the equation -- the printers are more expensive, but the ink is a lot cheaper. Verizon and Epson are in very different businesses but both just did the unthinkable by changing the way they charge for their products.
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Brazil and Germany to expand trade and combat climate change
2015-08-20 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Thursday that she and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed to expand trade and take joint action to combat climate change. Rousseff made her remarks after she met with Merkel, who concluded a 24-hour hour visit to Latin America's biggest country. Germany is Brazil's biggest trading partner in Europe and the country's fourth largest in the world. Official figures show that between 2003 and 2014 trade between the two countries increased 175 percent,...
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Climate change forcing boreal forest to a tipping point
2015-08-20 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Budapest Report: "Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century," said IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program researcher Anatoly Shvidenko. "It is urgent that we place more focus on climate mitigation and adaptation with respect to these forests, and also take a more integrated and balanced view of forests around the world." Boral forests are believed to be among the ecosystems that are most sensitive to climate change. These forests thrive in regions such as Canada, Russia and...
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India offers technology to Pacific island countries to cope with climate change
2015-08-20 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: India today offered its expertise and technology to the 14 resource-rich countries of the strategically important South Pacific region to help them combat the threat of climate change, a major concern for the island nations. Leaders and delegates of these countries have arrived are here to attend the second Summit of the Forum for India- Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) on August 21 in Jaipur. In an address at a reception for FIPIC member-countries, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj...
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To ease climate change, US should end drilling federal land: study
2015-08-20 08:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Up to 450 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases would be kept out of the atmosphere if the U.S. government stopped leasing federal lands to fossil fuel companies, according to a study released on Wednesday. The government currently allows energy companies to lease federal lands for drilling, and environmental groups say if the practice is not halted, the United States will be unable to meet its obligations to combat climate change. The oil, coal and gas under lands owned by the federal government...
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