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Clean Power Collateral Damage: Of Birds, Tortoises And The Transition From Fossil Fuels
2013-03-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Is kickstarting a clean-energy industry and accelerating a movement away from fossil fuels worth the expense of, say, a few desert tortoises or a collection of piping plovers? If so, how many of these threatened species would you be willing to sacrifice to build a commercial wind farm, or a utility-scale solar array? It's a stark and oversimplified way to frame things, of course, but the exercise helps to highlight the reality that renewable energy has environmental impacts, too. It's a point...
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Facebook does damage control after claims of rigged News Feed
2013-03-05 13:24:49| InfoWorld: Top News
Facebook is working to set the record straight following a report suggesting that the site is gaming its News Feed so that people who pay to promote their posts will get more interaction from users than those who don't.
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Australia reef shallows may cross "damage threshold" in 30 years
2013-02-27 04:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Coral reefs in shallow ocean waters are far more vulnerable to sea temperature rises blamed on global warming than previously thought, with some areas of the Great Barrier Reef likely to pass critical damage thresholds in roughly 30 years. Australian researchers looked at shallow corals, found in tropical waters under 70 meters (230 ft) in depth, along Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, and found that even tiny increases in overall ocean acidity could lead to extreme changes. "Honestly,...
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Carolina Contractor Hired To Fix Smoky Mtn Slide Damage
2013-02-25 23:34:25| ENR.com: Headline News
200-ft section of US 441 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that was wiped out by a landslide.
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Which drought-hit US states suffered the worst crop damage?
2013-02-18 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The searing U.S. drought of 2012 devastated the nations corn crop, pushing yields down in some states to their lowest levels in nearly 30 years. According to recently-released numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Missouri, Illinois and Indiana were among the hardest hit Corn Belt states, with yields at 28-, 26-, and 22-year lows, respectively. To put the severity and impact of the 2012 U.S. drought in context, the top 10 hardest-hit states for crop damage are illustrated in...
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