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Reducing Environmental Impacts of Pork Production
2013-08-12 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - WRAP has published its 'hotspot data' for 50 grocery products, including pork, showing areas where attention should be focused in terns of reducing environmental impacts.
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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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Assessing Environmental Impacts of Biofuels using Life-Cycle-Based Approaches
2013-03-23 06:27:38| Waste Management - Topix.net
CURRAN, M. A. Assessing Environmental Impacts of Biofuels using Life-Cycle-Based Approaches.
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Coal dusts environmental impacts
2013-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: Paul Barber isnt one to let a little rain get in the way of doing his job. As the plant superintendent for one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, part of Barbers job is to see that more than 100 million tons of coal gets loaded onto trains every year and sent from the Black Thunder Mine in northeastern Wyoming to power plants around the country. Barber sits in front of a wall of computer monitors with blinking multi-colored lights. Asked what happens if it rains on an uncovered coal...
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