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Concerns About Chinese Soy Demand Grow
2013-04-16 22:42:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
While last Wednesdays USDA supply/demand report sparked renewed concerns about tight U.S. soybean stocks, ample world soybean stocks and rising worries about Chinese demand seem set to keep pressure on soybean prices. News from Brock Associates read more
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New York Nuke Waste in Limbo as Concerns Rise
2013-04-16 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Over one million kgs of nuclear waste sit in limbo on the banks of the Hudson River, in dry cask storage units and spent fuel pools just 60 kms north of New York City, according to environmental organisations. The original plan was to bury the nuclear waste in a national repository deep beneath Yucca Mountain, in the southwestern deserts of the U.S. But that plan fell through when President Barack Obama's administration defunded the project. Nuclear waste is known for its long-lasting qualities...
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Early-Season Corn Production Concerns: Planting Date
2013-04-16 21:44:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: University of Illinois "As usual, planting delays raise questions about the likely magnitude of corn acreage and the potential impact on average yields. Some indication of the potential acreage impact of continued delays in planting is revealed in the historic acreage response in years of late planting," says Darrel Good, University of Illinois ag economist. read more
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Will global coal boom go bust as climate concerns increase?
2013-04-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: Today, the global economy annually consumes at least 80 times more coal than was burned in 1850 at the height of the Industrial Revolution. The International Energy Agency said that global coal use -- now close to 8 billion tons a year -- could increase by 65 percent by 2035 if current energy trends continue. A recent independent analysis reported that 1,200 new coal-fired power plants are being proposed worldwide, three-quarters of them in India and China. The planet still has so much coal underground...
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Campaigners Drop Flag Under N.Pole Ice Amid "Cold Rush" Concerns
2013-04-16 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmentalists have placed a flag on the seabed under the North Pole to urge protection for the region in a rebuff to Russia which planted a flag in 2007 in a symbolic territorial claim. Four campaigners, backed by Greenpeace, cut a hole in the ice at the North Pole at the weekend and dropped the flag and a capsule with almost 3 million signatures asking for the region to be off-limits to exploitation, Greenpeace said on Monday. A Russian submarine planted a flag on the seabed in the same...
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