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Scientists Discover Rip Van Winkle Of The Plant World
2013-05-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Nothing lives forever, but bryophytes come close. Scientists have found a kind of plant in the Canadian Arctic that started growing again after being buried under a glacier for 400 years
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Fact-checkers rip Obama group's claim on climate change 'hoax' vote
2013-05-04 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: A recent video from a President Obama-aligned group is under fire from fact-checkers for claiming hundreds of House members voted to call climate change a "hoax" -- namely, because they didn't. The video from Organizing for Action cleverly splices together quotes from Republican climate change skeptics while building up to the factoid about the vote, which was on an amendment to a broader bill in 2011. The video then includes the following text: "Number of House members who voted in 2011 that...
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Dangerous Rip Currents Along Boca Beaches
2013-04-29 21:14:07| Railroads - Topix.net
The weather - at least for now - is great, with a balmy breeze and temps in the low 80s.
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Carbon trading: ETS, RIP?
2013-04-19 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: THE worlds largest carbon market has been holed below the water line. On April 16th the European Parliament voted to reject an attempt to bolster Europes flagship environmental programme, the Emissions Trading System (ETS). Carbon prices, already low, plunged. The emerging network of global carbon trading and European climate policy as a whole could sink. The ETS has long been a mess. It is a cap-and-trade scheme in which permits to emit carbon--about 16 billion tonnes-worth in 2013-20, or roughly...
The 404 1,241: Where we rip from the rich and seed to the poor (podcast)
2013-04-03 21:08:03| CNET News.com
The first call made from the first mobile phone was made 40 years ago today, and to celebrate we're showing off our own cellular histories. Nextels, PDAs, and BitTorrent pirates on today's episode of The 404. [Read more]
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