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Payment Processing Transformation: How to Support Customer Facing Innovations and Adapt to Increasing Regulatory demands PART 1

2015-02-16 22:28:24| Capgemini News Feed

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Paradise lost: Dominicans adapt to growing climate change threat

2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Rocky Antonio Cabrera steps into a small fishing boat as another fisherman yanks on the starter cord bringing the motor to life. As the boat glides through thick mangroves in Manzanillo Bay, part of a national park in northwest Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti, Cabrera comments on high winds that arrived a month early this year -- a change he blames on the impact of global warming on weather patterns. Jesús Belliard, another local fisherman, sits at the back of the boat and checks...

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Farmers adapt to big rains but send trouble downstream

2015-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Minnesota Public Radio: As rains have gotten heavier, Minnesota farmers in recent years have been expanding a 150-year-old drainage system, pulling billions of gallons more water off soggy land and letting the state's corn and soybean fields thrive. They have laid thousands of additional miles of water-absorbing plastic tubes underneath their fields and, as a result, they have pushed upward the number of bushels per acre of the crops that dominate Minnesota's agricultural landscape. They have held their own and even flourished...

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Global warming: atmosphere will adapt to hotter, wetter climate

2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Business Times: Strong storms will become stronger while weak storms become weaker, and the cumulative result of all the storms will remain unchanged under global warming, says a study led by atmospheric physicists at the University of Toronto. The team quantified the way in which increase in water vapour from global warming influences the strength of atmospheric air circulation. The atmosphere it turns out will adapt to hotter, wetter climate. "We know that with global warming we'll get more evaporation...

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