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How Earth avoided global warming, last time around
2014-06-12 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Geochemists have calculated a huge rise in atmospheric CO2 was only avoided by the formation of a vast mountain range in the middle of the ancient supercontinent, Pangea. This work is being presented to the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Sacramento, California. Around 300 million years ago, plate tectonics caused the continents to aggregate into a giant supercontinent, known as "Pangea." The sheer size of the continent meant that much of the land surface was far from the sea, and so the...
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Why Whole Foods Shares Need to Be Avoided
2014-05-19 19:07:07| Grocery - Topix.net
When I last wrote about Whole Foods a month ago, the stock had been relatively weak compared with the rest of the market.
U.N. Climate Change Report Says Worst Scenarios Can Still Be Avoided
2014-04-13 04:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WSJ: A United Nations report suggests that governments can still avert the more serious consequences of climate change provided they act quickly and aggressively to cut the accelerating pace of greenhouse-gas emissions. According to the report, global greenhouse-gas emissions have risen more rapidly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades. The global economic crisis of 2007 and 2008 temporarily reduced emissions but didn't change the trend, the report says. The report is...
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TramForward argues UK government could have avoided 300m pollution fine
2014-03-03 01:00:00| Railway Technology
The Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA) campaigning arm, TramForward, is arguing that the UK government should encourage the development of tram systems in the country's major cities in order to combat air pollution.
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CatchMark Timber IPO Should Be Avoided
2013-12-11 21:19:39| Paper - Topix.net
CatchMark Timber Trust , an REIT that owns and manages American timberlands, plans to raise $150 million in its upcoming IPO on Thursday December 12th.