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Vast reservoirs of Arctic carbon could affect global warming
2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Six to eight times a month, a Sherpa airplane with special instruments takes off from Fairbanks, Alaska, in search of data to answer the question: Is global warming causing changes to the environment that inevitably accelerate the climate change? That is the suspicion of Charles Miller, principal investigator for a research project that is focusing on greenhouse gas emissions in the skies above the Arctic tundra, the vast treeless region that produces only grasses and low brush during the brief...
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In age of climate change, Australia's vast coal fields could become worthless
2013-07-02 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Guardian: Australia's huge coal industry is a speculative bubble ripe for financial implosion if the world's governments fulfill their agreement to act on climate change, according to a new report. The warning that much of the nation's coal reserves will become worthless as the world hits carbon emission limits comes after banking giant Citi also warned Australian investors that fossil fuel companies could do little to avoid the future loss of value. Australia is already the globe's biggest coal exporter...
Obama defends vast data-collection efforts
2013-06-10 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
President says modest privacy encroachments are worth it to protect U.S.
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Australia holds vast shale gas prospect, lacks proper infrastructure, says report
2013-06-07 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
A new report from Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) has stated that Australia contains around 1,000 trillion cubic feet of untapped shale gas, but requires effective environmental regulations and reduction in costs to exploit the resour
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Canada's vast boreal forest a biodiversity hotspot
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: In case you missed it and forgot to send a card -- as did I -- Wednesday was the International Day for Biodiversity. What's biodiversity? Ask most people, and they think it's related to the number of species in a particular area. The more species, the more biodiversity. So, naturally, they think of places like the Amazon as being biodiversity strongholds. But a report from the Boreal Songbird Initiative and Ducks Unlimited begs to differ. They think other characteristics -- concentrations...
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