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Poll: Majority see climate change affecting US weather

2013-05-01 17:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Hill: Fifty-eight percent of U.S. residents believe global warming is affecting the country's weather and a substantial number of people say it has made various extreme weather events more severe. Those are among the findings of the latest joint survey by Yale Universitys Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. Many Americans believe global warming made recent extreme weather and climatic events more severe,' specifically:...

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Betaworks takes majority stock in Instapaper

2013-04-26 00:54:32| CNET News.com

Marco Arment, the creator of the "read later" app, decides to step back and let startup-launcher Betaworks take control. [Read more]

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Majority Say Pipeline More Important Than Climate Change

2013-04-23 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yahoo: A new poll released this week by Nik Nanos, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, revealed that the majority of Americans and Canadians feel that the energy security that could be provided by the Keystone XL pipeline is more important than concerns over climate change. * According to the poll, 63 percent of Americans think that having North America free from importing oil from outside the continent is more important than reducing greenhouse gases. Thirty...

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Lunar Capital acquires majority stake in snack firm Guizhou Yonghong Food

2013-04-23 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology

Shanghai-based private firm Lunar Capital has completed the acquisition of a 70% stake in Guizhou Yonghong Food, a producer of snack food in China, for $50m.

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