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Australia: Climate change will force farmers to adapt: CSIRO

2013-01-15 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australia's farmers will need to adapt to cope with a potentially hotter and drier continent as the effects of climate change take hold, scientists say. As the UN's chief science body meets in Hobart today to update the latest climate modelling, the CSIRO says forecasts show Australia will have to cope with less rainfall, longer dry periods and crops struggling to grow in changing conditions. CSIRO climate applications scientist Steve Crimp says the nation's agricultural sector will likely...

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FoundOcean Awarded Grouting Contract by Offshore Wind Force

2013-01-14 12:36:00| Offshore Technology

FoundOcean has been awarded a major offshore wind farm grouting contract in European waters by Offshore Wind Force, a joint venture of Dutch-based contractors Volker Stevin Offshore and Boskalis Offshore.

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Rutherford driving force behind library becoming U.N. depository

2013-01-14 12:17:27| Footwear - Topix.net

Kenneth Rutherford, a former associate professor of political science at Missouri State University, was the driving force in 2000 for getting the university designated a depository of United Nations documents.

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Will hottest year ever force US to confront climate change?

2013-01-09 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Week: CLIMATE change may finally be thrust centre stage in the US as the country digests the fact that 2012 was the hottest year in more than a century of record-keeping. Man-made climate change barely featured in last year's presidential campaign, but the news that 2012's average temperature was 55.3F a full 1F above the previous record - may prove the tipping point for politicians and citizens alike. "Yes it's climate change," said Time, describing the new record as "a landslide, meteorological...

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