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The Five Worst Substation Outages of 2014
2015-04-15 18:32:00| Power Technology
Each year, TransGard names the Five Worst Substation Outages caused by climbing animals. For 2014, the list includes dangerous, expensive, inconvenient outages from all over the US, outages that could have been prevented.
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Acidic oceans implicated in Earth's worst mass extinction
2015-04-09 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It is one of science's enduring mysteries: what caused the worst mass extinction in Earth's history. And, no, it is not the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Scientists said on Thursday that huge amounts of carbon dioxide spewed from colossal volcanic eruptions in Siberia may have turned the world's oceans dangerously acidic 252 million years ago, helping to drive a global environmental calamity that killed most land and sea creatures. The researchers studied rocks in the United Arab Emirates...
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Wall St. sanguine as it heads into worst earnings season in six years
2015-04-08 08:16:40| IT Services - Topix.net
Though there has been some selling in recent weeks, there's been no panic dumping of stocks, even though forecasts for S&P 500 first-quarter earnings have tumbled since Jan. 1, thanks to the surging dollar, falling oil prices and another severe winter. The earnings season unofficially kicks off Wednesday with results from aluminium company Alcoa .
India Vows to Reduce Air Pollution in Worlds Worst Polluted City
2015-04-05 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sputnik: India pledged to reduce air pollution in New Delhi, the worst polluted city in the world, Indian Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said Sunday. "Clean air is a birth right. We are giving high priority to this. It has not been handled correctly over the last 10 years,' Prakash Javadekar was quoted as saying by The Guardian. According to Javadekar, the Indian government will announce this week the first nationwide "composite, comprehensive' air index since...
One Farmers Battle with Californias Worst Drought
2015-04-04 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On a warm March afternoon, farmer Cannon Michael walks alongside wheat fields adjacent to his house in Los Banos, in California's Central Valley. Most of these fields won't be watered again this year. Cannon Michael in on a mission to preserve farming in California, despite layers of agricultural regulations and the state's historic drought. "Wheat's not a glamorous crop, but it makes a lot of bread,' Michael quips. This wheat, though, won't return much money, Michael says. So it will be...
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