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Global insurers paid less in damage claims for extreme weather in the last 6 months
2015-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Global natural catastrophes in the last six months cost insurers less than usual, with the winter storms on the U.S. East Coast topping the charts, German reinsurance company Munich Re announced yesterday. Insured losses in 2015 so far totaled about $12 billion worldwide and $8 billion in the United States -- half of the price tag of last year's first six months. Overall damages reached $35 billion, or roughly the value of Instagram. That's compared with economic losses adding up to around $95 billion...
GMO corn increased pesticide use by 300%; agency claims exact opposite to protect biotech industry
2015-07-14 10:53:20| Biotech - Topix.net
The overall percentage of U.S. crop acreage exposed to chemical insecticides is significantly higher than regulatory authorities are claiming, warns a shocking new report released by the Center for Food Safety . Data compiled by scientists from Pennsylvania State University reveals that nearly half of all planted soybean seed and up to 100 percent of all corn seed is now treated with or exposed to insecticides.
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King & Spalding blasts claims that it helped GM cover up defect
2015-07-14 03:03:08| Automakers - Topix.net
Atlanta law firm King & Spalding LLP is blasting allegations that it tried to help General Motors Corp. cover up defective ignition switches. On June 12, the Texas attorney who is leading litigation against GM over the deaths and injuries caused by the automaker's defective ignition switches charged that King & Spalding, which served as GM's outside counsel, "went along with the cover-up" to help GM "keep this defect secret."
Samsung is reportedly working on an 11K screen, claims it can create 3D illusions
2015-07-13 19:52:34| Extremetech
Samsung says it wants to build high-resolution displays up to and including an insane 11K. Will we ever have a use for such technology?
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Speedy study claims climate change doubled chances of European heatwave
2015-07-13 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Over much of Europe, the sweltering heatwave of late June and early July has barely subsided. But already, scientists have analysed the possible role of climate change, concluding that global warming made such an event at least twice as likely over much of the continent. In some cities, climate change has made comparable heatwaves four times more likely, they say. The speedy study comes from a collaboration involving the US-based nonprofit environmental news organization Climate Central and an...
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