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Obama's Keystone XL Trade-Off: Executive Order Expediting Everything Else
2013-09-08 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Large segments of the environmental movement declared a win on Jan. 18, 2012, the dawn of an election year in which partisan fervor reigned supreme. On that day President Barack Obama kicked the can down the road for permitting TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline's northern half until after the then-forthcoming November 2012 presidential election. "Northern half" is the key caveat: just two months later, on March 22, 2013 -- even deeper into the weeds of an election year -- President Obama issued...
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Plants help slow warming - but there's a trade-off
2013-04-28 19:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The fragrant smell of the trees is one of the nicest things about taking a walk in the woods. But the organic compounds trees pump out don't just register well with our noses: they also help cool the climate by encouraging clouds to form. As plants respire, they emit chemicals called volatile organic compounds. In the atmosphere, these VOCs can interact with other chemicals to form particle "seeds" that clouds can grow around. Climate models predict that the clouds seeded by plant respiration...
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Alzheimer's Could Be the Trade-off for Deep-Space Pioneers
2013-01-03 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Cosmic radiation could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease among astronauts, adding to the health risks it's already known to pose. Researchers at the University of Rochester looked at the effect of high-mass particles with a high charge. These so-called "HZE particles" are the nuclei of elements that include iron, silicon, titanium and calcium.
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