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New York Times slashes environmental coverage

2013-03-05 19:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: On Friday at 5 PM the New York Times announced it was shutting down it Green blog, which highlighted diverse stories online, from energy to endangered species to climate change. The loss of the New York Times environment blog follows shortly after the paper announced it was dismantling its environment desk and moving all of the reporters to other beats. "We will forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems,...

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Hotter, wetter climate slashes labor capacity by 10 percent: U.S. study

2013-02-24 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Earth's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can do in the worst heat by about 10 percent in the past six decades, and that loss in labor capacity could double by mid-century, U.S. government scientists reported on Sunday. Because warmer air can hold more moisture than cooler air, there's more absolute humidity in the atmosphere now than there used to be. And as anyone who has sweltered through a hot, muggy summer knows, it's more stressful to work through hot months...

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Canaccord slashes estimate of BB10 sales; sees no improvement as year...

2013-02-20 11:35:12| Chemicals - Topix.net

Canaccord Genuity is slashing its estimate of BlackBerry BB10 smartphone shipments in February to just 300,000 units, a far cry from its earlier estimate of more than 1.75 million.

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