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Pokemon Go Tracking Site Pokevision Shuts Down
2016-07-31 23:02:56| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Some third-party Pokemon Go tracking sites have been shut down over the past few days, and it's suspected that Niantic is sending out cease-and-desist letters.
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Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink
2016-07-21 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Amazon rainforest is popularly known as the the planets lungs absorbing and storing 100 billion tons of carbon and preventing it from entering the atmosphere. Maintaining that vast carbon sink is seen as vital to limiting climate change impacts. Now, new research published in the Global Biogeochemical Cycles journal shows that droughts can bring this crucial ecosystem service to a grinding halt. University of Exeter scientist Dr. Ted Feldpausch and an international team of researchers...
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Toyota shuts lifts down to save money because of strong yen
2016-07-08 09:19:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Lifts at Toyota's headquarters are a casualty, as the world's biggest carmaker tries to make savings amid concerns about the weak global economy and strengthening yen.
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Drought stalls tree growth and shuts down Amazon carbon sink, researchers find
2016-07-06 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin's carbon sink, by killing trees and slowing their growth, a ground-breaking study led by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Leeds has found. Previous research has suggested that the Amazon -the most extensive tropical forest on Earth and one of the "green lungs" of the planet -- may be gradually losing its capacity to take carbon from the atmosphere. This new study, the most extensive land-based study of the effect of drought on Amazonian...
China city shuts down waste burning plant over protests
2016-06-27 07:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The mayor of a city in central China made a rare public address calling of calm after thousands of people protested against a waste incineration project over fears it would damage the environment and residents' health. Tens of thousands of "mass incidents" - the usual euphemism for protests - happen in China each year, spurred by grievances over issues such as corruption, pollution and illegal land grabs, unnerving the stability-obsessed ruling Communist Party. The city of Xiantao, in Hubei...
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