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Global Water Shortages May Be Far Worse than We Thought
2016-02-16 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Safe Bee: A new study found that about two-thirds of the worlds population, or some 4 billion people, face severe water shortages during at least one month of every year. Half of the 4 billion are in India and China, but people in other countries, including the United States and Mexico, are also affected. Most water is used for food, so water scarcity primarily translates to decreasing or failing crop yields, wrote study co-author Mesfin Mekonnen in an email to SafeBee. Mekonnena is postdoctoral researcher...
Cleared rainforest bounces back faster than thought study
2016-02-04 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Forests can regrow in cleared areas faster than previously thought, researchers have found in a broad study spanning Latin America. After 20 years of recovery, secondary forests on average stored CO2 at a rate 11 times higher than untouched Amazonian jungle, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute revealed on Wednesday. Moist forests in Central America bounced back quicker than drier sites in Mexico and north-east Brazil. "Regenerating secondary forests could play a critical role in carbon...
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Mike Bloomberg Is Worth $49 Billion, Much More Than Most People Thought
2016-01-26 18:54:45| IT Services - Topix.net
Why should anyone care? The game of how much billionaires are worth is an often silly exercise that nonetheless matters a great deal to the absurdly wealthy , even when it typically involves irrationally large sums that have little practical day-to-day value. Still, it's fun to play along, especially when it involves Bloomberg , who is considering a possible presidential bid to topple Trump, the reality TV star who may or may not be worth quite as much as he claims .
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US Soybean Meal has Greater Energy Values than First Thought
2016-01-26 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Differences in soil type, variety of soybeans, climate, or processing conditions can cause the same crop to have different nutritional value when produced in different locations. However, feed composition tables combine values from crops grown all over the world. Results of recent research at the University of Illinois indicate that book values for energy in soybean meal underestimate the energy value of soybean meal produced in the United States.
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Biotech investor: 'None of us were as smart as we thought we were'
2016-01-18 17:41:25| Biotech - Topix.net
It wasn't that long ago that investors couldn't get enough of biotechnology stocks. Now it seems as if they can't get out of the sector fast enough.
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