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Report: Tar-sands-derived gasoline threatening environment
2014-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MPBN: Over the next six years, Mainers and other motorists around the Northeast can expect to be filling up their gas tanks with gas that is increasingly derived from Canadian tar sands oil. That's according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, which says the carbon intensive extraction and refining process for tar sands runs counter to many states' plans to cut carbon pollution, the major driver of climate change. Susan Sharon has more. According to the report, extracting and refining...
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New 'Massive Lake' Threatening Climate Change Debate?
2013-12-24 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Design and Trend: Researchers at the University of Utah said that lake, known as "perennial firn aquifer," remains liquid year-round despite the otherwise frozen landscape around it, according to English.chosun.com. "Large amounts of snow fall on the surface late in the summer and quickly insulates the water from the subfreezing air temperatures above, allowing the water to persist all year long," said Rick Forster, lead author and professor of geography at the University of Utah. The 43,500 sq.km body of water...
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Storm that hit US midsection takes aim next at Mid-Atlantic region threatening sleet and ice
2013-12-09 01:37:35| Airlines - Topix.net
Whistler may have had sub-zero temperatures this week, but the stars didn't mind, and still strutted their stuff for the cameras at the Whistler Film Festival.
Real estate agent sentenced for threatening to kill ex-wife
2013-12-03 20:09:48| Real Estate - Topix.net
Martin had already pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his ex-wife, as well as assaulting a police officer and his girlfriend.
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A dearth of agriculture graduates is threatening food sustainability
2013-11-21 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The food industry needs a revolution to feed a growing population, and new generations of graduates are required Share Tweet this Email Food production will have to increase by 70% in the next 40 years to feed a growing world population. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP Agricultural evolution first occurred 10,000 years ago when plants were selected and grown as crops, and animals were domesticated. Further revolution of our food industry from mechanisation in the early 18th century right through to...
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