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Unlikely Source Keeps Willamette Valley Fertile In Drought
2015-10-27 08:25:42| Beverages - Topix.net
Record low snow packs had already melted, spring precipitation was well below average, and - for some cities - it had been the hottest June on record. By the time summer was over, the Detroit Lake Reservoir had dried up to an unprecedented level.
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Austin Compost Programs Fertile Amid National Push to Limit Food Waste
2015-09-21 15:31:00| Waste Age
KUT.org In the last two and a half years, Austin, Texas, has picked up the equivalent of 1,500 killer whales in compost. read more
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In Brooklyn, Fertile Ground for a Wind Turbine
2015-01-16 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Modern-day Don Quixotes looking to tilt at wind turbines can see their latest fearsome foe from far and wide: Lower Manhattan; Red Hook, Brooklyn; or the Gowanus Expressway. In less than a month of operation, the first large-scale wind turbine to be installed in New York City, standing more than 160 feet tall, has produced enough energy to power two homes for over a year, or one 20-watt light bulb for over a century. But this turbine, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was built to help power a recycling...
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Soil secrets: Fertile ground to combat desertification
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Mirror: OVER a billion people will watch. The 2014 Football World Cup Final on July 13 is likely to be the worlds most-watched television event in history. This impressively shows just how connected the world became, via the TV, or the Internet with more than 2 billion users online. Then again this number is only greeted with weary smiles by some other creatures, who might not update their Facebook status as often, but are way more connected than us. They already invented the social network when life...
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Could a global grab for fertile soil, bring civil unrest?
2014-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The estimated 1.6 billion hectares of fertile soils currently under cultivation can certainly feed the current world population. If we still have approximately 800 million undernourished and hungry people on this planet, it is due to serious imbalances in the distribution of wealth, land and natural resources in general. Market driven preference to allocate part of the fertile soils to producing energy or biofuels instead of food, as well as unsustainable consumption habits and market distortion...