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I Know How to Save Medicare
2013-03-14 18:31:03| Agriculture - Topix.net
No, it doesn't involve coupons or eligibility tests or shorting doctors. It's a simple fix that could make the system self-sustaining in perpetuity, while making Americans healthier and longer-lived. Thirty-seven percent of US adults are clinically obese.
Florida rescuers struggle to save manatees hit by deadly algae
2013-03-14 06:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Virginia Edmonds, standing in shallow water, used her legs to slowly nudge an ailing young manatee to one side of a treatment pool. A half dozen other female members of a manatee rehabilitation team hovered close by - one with a syringe - waiting for the signal. "OK!" Edmonds called, as the others jumped in and threw a mat over the manatee to try and hold it still. The 545-pound (247-kg) mammal bucked, thrashed, rolled and tossed the women off before he could get his antibiotic injection; just...
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Seward freight boom to help save ARRC
2013-03-13 23:25:55| Railroads - Topix.net
The Alaska Railroad Corporation is looking to Seward, and the booming freight market it hopes to take advantage of here as a way to help overcome losses in other areas, such as losses from its formerly lucrative coal and petroleum customers.
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The price of green energy: Is Germany killing the environment to save it?
2013-03-13 14:37:25| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: The Bagpipe, a woody knoll in northern Hesse, can only be recommended to hikers with reservations. This here is lumberjack country. Broad, clear-cut lanes crisscross the area. The tracks of heavy vehicles can be seen in the snow. And there is a vast clearing full of the stumps of recently felled trees. Martin Kaiser, a forest expert with Greenpeace, gets up on a thick stump and points in a circle. "Mighty, old beech trees used to stand all over here," he says. Now the branches of the felled giants...
Strong no deforestation commitments save forests and feed people
2013-03-12 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: As a global community, we have so far failed to answer this most pressing question; we have yet to build our cloud. Deforestation rates are down in some places, but overall, our forests continue to disappear much as they have for the past 50 years, driven principally by increasing global demand for food. Can we feed the world and save our forests? Yes, we can, and the solution lies in the global supply chain and the message some companies are now sending their suppliers: If you cut down trees, I...
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