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Technology Could Take Agriculture Halfway to Climate Targets
2016-02-26 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - Unless greenhouse gas emissions from food consumption are reduced substantially, EU climate targets will not be met, according to a new study from Swedish researchers.
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#Heathrow13 to continue climate fight following court ruling
2016-02-25 13:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The mood outside Willesden magistrates court on Wednesday was defiant. "They are an inspiration, not a deterrence," said Jamie Kelsey-Fry, contributing editor to the New Internationalist, of the 13 activists facing sentencing for mounting a climate protest at the UK`s largest airport. They are climate heroes, facing jail on behalf of all of us," tweeted veteran environmentalist George Monbiot, urging his legion of followers to join the fight against airport expansion. Around 300 people...
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Looming Ethiopia famine highlights vulnerability climate change
2016-02-25 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Food aid will run out for over 10 million Ethiopians by May, according to aid agencies, which fear a repeat of the horrendous famines of the 1970s and 80s. Chronic drought has sapped vast tracts of the north, central and eastern highlands, hitting crops and livestock as rain patterns have shifted. More than eight in ten people depend on rain-fed agriculture, according to Oxfam. Intensified by El Nino, the dry spell brings into sharp relief the vulnerability of the continent to a changing climate....
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New report reveals costs of climate change on agriculture industry
2016-02-25 08:19:56| Agriculture - Topix.net
A new report is revealing that climate change in the Treasure State could cost the agriculture industry some big bucks in the next 40 to 50 years. KFBB recently reported on a new study about the economic impact to Montana's outdoor economy, and the new report reveals similar details.
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Coal, climate change clash in Colstrip
2016-02-25 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Great Falls Tribune: Ashley Dennehy, 24, left this town of 2,300 to go to college, but coal and the quality of life it fuels brought her back. Schools are great. A stone's throw from the Yellowstone River, recreational opportunities abound. Then there's the jobs. Dennehy's husband, a mechanical engineer at the Rosebud Coal Mine, earns more than $70,000 a year. That's more than the state's median household income of $46,230, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. "Where are you going to find that?" said Dennehy,...
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