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Argonne tool predicts economic impacts of building new natural gas stations
2014-09-29 19:30:24| Green Car Congress
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California Report Warns Worsening Economic Impacts Drought
2014-07-16 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A new scientific and economic report commissioned by California's state government warns that the ongoing drought crisis will cost billions in lost farm revenue and thousands of jobs, although wider impacts on the national food system are unlikely. The report also outlines ways officials could act now to avoid the worst effects of the drought. California's drought is now in its third year and is expected to worsen, thanks to record high temperatures and a low snowpack in the state's mountains....
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IPCC report downplays economic impacts of climate change, reviewer says
2014-03-24 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blayney Chronical: An upcoming United Nations report on climate change has been altered after the expert review stage, with changes added that downplay the economic impacts of a warming planet, according to one of the reviewers. Bob Ward, an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also said alterations to the economics chapter of the draft report sent to governments included an assessment of a paper by the chapter's own lead co-ordinating author Richard Tol that contained at least one...
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Economic, Environmental Impacts of GMO Crops
2013-05-09 20:33:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: University of Illinois A new peer-reviewed work has been published (April 2013) that outlines some significant global economic and environmental benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops. Agricultural entomologist Mike Gray, University of Illinois, has conducted western corn rootworm research for many years and was particularly interested in the overall U.S. farm income gain attributed to corn rootworm Bt hybrids $7.1 billion cumulative benefits since 2003. read more
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