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Warming climate is bad news for western US aquifers
2016-02-24 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: By 2050 climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists. The new report is the first to integrate scientists' knowledge about groundwater in the U.S. West with scientific models that show how climate change will affect the region. "We wanted to know, 'What are the expectations for increases and decreases in groundwater as we go forward in this century?'" said lead...
Pacific trade deal bad news for climate, say activists
2016-02-04 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate campaigners are warning a free trade deal between a dozen Pacific countries on Wednesday risks handing polluters more power. In Auckland, representatives from twelve nations including the US, Australia and Japan inked the Trans-Pacific Partnership after five years of negotiations. President Barack Obama hailed the tariff-busting deal as including the strongest labor standards and environmental commitments in history. Activists fumed. Campaigners 350.org called it a fossil fuel industry...
Vines may be bad news for forest carbon storage
2016-01-29 05:07:35| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that vines called lianas reduce the carbon storage capacity of tropical forests by crowding out and sometimes even killing trees. With tropical forests acting as one of the worlds greatest defenses against global warming, the studys authors say that understanding the impact of lianas on carbon sequestration is important to figuring out just how much carbon forests will be able to store in the coming years. Lianas...
More Bad News For Coal Mine-Reliant States
2016-01-16 14:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: On Friday, the Obama administration announced a halt to new coal leases on federal land. In Wyoming, most of the federally-owned coal mines and revenue from coal leases pays for school construction. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In President Obama's State of the Union address, there was a line you might have missed, but it caught the ear of people in the energy industry. (SOUNDBITE OF SPEECH) BARACK OBAMA: I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources so that they better...
The Crop Surplus is Bad News for America's Farms
2016-01-12 09:38:48| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Farmland values are down from all-time highs. Global surpluses left corn and soybean prices below the cost of production.
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