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Orbit to supply data entry devices for US Navys E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft
2013-11-04 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Electronics Group of Orbit International, through its Orbit Instrument Division, has received a follow-on order worth more than $480,000 to supply mission control data entry devices for the US Navys E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.
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Global food supply at severe risk from climate change
2013-11-03 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: A scientific panel set up by the United Nations has found that climate change will pose a serious threat to the world's food supply in the coming decades, reports The New York Times. The findings aren't set to be announced until March and are still undergoing editing, but a copy of the report has leaked online. The findings come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been releasing reports on the matter around every six years -- the Times reports that its 2007 findings...
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Global food supply threatened by climate change
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GMA: Harvest time may not be quite as abundant as in previous years. The culprit? Climate change. Scientists have concluded that global warming makes it more difficult for crops to thrive in many parts of the world, posing a very real threat to the overall food supply, a New York Times report said. While rising temperatures have beneficial effects on crops planted in a few locales, in the coming decades global production of crops may be reduced by as much as two percent each decade, for the...
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Global warming to pinch Salt Lake City water supply
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit County: By now its no secret that global warming will have a significant impact on water supplies in parts of the world, and regions where water is already scarce will be first to feel the pinch That includes the interior West, where winter snowpack provides critical water storage. Already, projections show that spring runoff is coming much earlier than just a few years ago, and that, in many areas, more of the total annual precipitation is falling as rain. In a new study, a team of researchers tried...
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Climate change threatens world food supply, panel warns
2013-11-02 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An international scientific panel has found that climate change will pose sharp risks to the world's food supply in coming decades, potentially reducing output and sending prices higher in a period when global food demand is expected to soar. That finding is by far the starkest warning that the UN-appointed group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has issued regarding the food supply. Its 2007 report was more sanguine, essentially finding that climatic warming and the rising level...
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