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Climate Change May Bode Ill for Bat Populations
2013-12-28 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Who'd be a bat? Global warming is about to make your life ever more difficult, because higher air temperatures will make echo-location of insect prey so much less effective. And if the world reacts, stops burning fossil fuel, and invests in green energy, then your chances of being killed by a wind turbine become just so much higher. Holger Goerlitz, of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Interface that...
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Northrop demonstrates electronic attack capability of BAT unmanned aircraft
2013-11-15 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Northrop Grumman has successfully conducted flight trials of its Bat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), integrated with internal miniature electronic attack payload, at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, US.
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Police: 1 woman sexually assaulted, 1 beaten with bat during robbery
2013-11-05 17:42:43| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
It happened around 3 a.m. Tuesday on the 300 block of Walnut Street. Police said they located a vehicle that had fled the scene and crashed, becoming disabled.
Critics Blast Climate Scientists Going To Bat for Nuclear Power
2013-11-03 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: Amidst the ongoing Fukushima disaster in Japan and the broader failure of nuclear power, a call by some scientists and others for environmentalists and green groups to embrace the energy source in the name of fighting climate change is being met with a firm rebuke. Ahead of CNN's airing this week of what critics have described as a misleading and propaganda-laced pro-nuclear film called "Pandora's Promise," four climate scientists on Sunday released a letter of their own calling on "those influencing...
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Kershner goes to bat for Lynden-area farmers
2013-09-27 01:44:47| Trucking - Topix.net
Whatcom County Council Chairwoman Kathy Kershner earlier this month sent a strongly worded letter to the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency, asking them to back off from a lawsuit claiming a Lynden-area berry operation cleared and filled wetlands and never repaired the damage.