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Sierra Club leader to risk arrest in protest against Keystone XL oil pipeline
2013-02-13 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Prominent environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club and the organizer of a public campaign to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, are planning to risk arrest Wednesday at a protest outside the White House. Executive director Michael Brune would be the first Sierra Club leader to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history as a way to oppose the pipeline, which would carry oil derived...
Understanding risk essential at time of climate change and rising tide of claims
2013-02-13 01:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: It is more than six years since Hugh McElvaney, leader of the Fine Gael group on Monaghan County Council, was told that land proposed for rezoning outside Ballybay was located in a floodplain, and he responded by suggesting that houses could be "built on stilts". Now the policy is that development in areas with a high probability of flooding "should be avoided and/or only considered in exceptional circumstances, such as in city and town centres" or essential infrastructure that cannot be be located...
Cheap yen a boon and a risk for Japan companies
2013-02-12 12:27:52| Semiconductors - Topix.net
As the yen weakens, famous Japanese exporters from Toyota to Nintendo are getting a boost but the favorable exchange rate also carries risks by insulating some companies from pressure to overhaul their businesses.
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Cheap yen a boon and a risk for Japan companies
2013-02-12 11:06:19| Electronics - Topix.net
8, 2013 photo, traders work under a screen indicating the U.S. dollar is trading at 93.530 yen on the foreign exchange market in Tokyo.
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Wildflowers at risk from 'safe' levels of pollution
2013-02-11 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Over the last 100 years the global population has increased four-fold to seven billion people and may reach nine billion by 2075. How to produce enough food to feed all these people is one of the biggest global challenges. Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first century, food production has been dramatically increased by improving agricultural yields, particularly by applying nitrogen fertilisers. In 1908, the German chemist Fritz Haber invented a method for producing ammonia fertilizer...
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