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Polar Bear Population Plummets 40 Percent in 10 Years

2014-11-18 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: A key polar bear population in Alaska has plummeted 40 percent in the last 10 years, marked by a dramatic increase in deaths of young cubs, according to a new study published Monday. Scietists from the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Environment Canada found that bear survival rates in the south Beaufort Sea, located off Alaska and northwestern Canada, are particularly low. Monitoring of this bear population began in 2001, and since then overall survival rates began to climb; however, juvenile...

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Oil price plummets below $77 a barrel amid OPEC production cuts uncertainty

2014-11-14 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

The price of Brent crude oil declined to a four-year low, touching below $77 a barrel today, amid concerns of ample supply and uncertainty regarding Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) production cuts.

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Fracking Support Plummets Among Americans

2014-11-13 18:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: As more stories emerge about the dangers posed by the toxic fallout from the aggressive drilling process to communities near the operations, support for fracking tilts negative for the first time, with 41 percent favoring increased use of fracking and 47 percent opposing it. Thats a huge swing from 20 months ago. In Pews March 2013 poll 48 percent supported more fracking while only 38 percent opposed it. Support for fracking has dropped most steeply among women and people under 50, whose opinions...

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Intertape Polymer Q3 profit plummets to $6 million on charges; revenues increase

2014-11-05 18:13:00| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Intertape Polymer Group says its third-quarter profit plummeted to US$6 million from $14.4 million a year earlier on higher taxes, closure and restructuring costs and a pension charge for its shuttered facility in Brantford, Ont. The company, which reports in U.S. dollars, said the profit amounted to 10 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept.

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