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Pricing nature 'may help save it'
2013-11-21 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Business leaders and environmentalists say putting an economic value on nature could be the best way to save it. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond will be among those speaking at the first World Forum on Natural Capital in Edinburgh later. The event has been organised by the Scottish Wildlife Trust in partnership with the UN and other organisations. The concept of "natural capital" involves businesses calculating the economic value of nature. This allows an assessment of companies'...
Letter from Metro's Tim O'Brien, finding the City of Portland in compliance with Title 13, Nature in Neighborhoods
2013-11-06 20:32:56| PortlandOnline
January 16, 2013 PDF Document, 35kbCategory: Metro Title 13 Compliance Efforts
Experts plan to toy with nature, fight warming
2013-10-20 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Two years ago this month, in a disused UK airfield, scientists were preparing to undertake one of the more controversial experiments in history. A dirigible balloon would spray 120litres of water droplets into the sky, a miniaturized test for a larger system that would pump out chemical particles to reflect sunlight and, so the scientists hoped, cool the planet. It was to be amomentous day. Geoengineering is the largescale, technological manipulation of the climate (some call it "planet hacking")....
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India: Aftermath of global warming nature furious
2013-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deccan Chronicle: India appears to be a creaking battleship struggling hard to come to terms with climate change. Not only has India become warmer than it was five decades ago but extreme weather events such as flooding, drought and cyclones are driving this battleship aground. Some of the deadliest tropical cyclones in history have emanated from the Bay of Bengal triggering speculation that these could well be linked to climate change, the most recent being cyclone Phailin which lashed the Odisha coast early October....
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Fuel In The Fire: Burn Wood For Power Or Leave It To Nature
2013-10-16 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The record-breaking wildfire in Yosemite National Park is almost fully contained, two months after it started. The blaze calls attention to a problem across the western U.S. - after a century having its fires routinely extinguished, the forests are overloaded with fuel. A heated debate has flared up about what do to with that forest fuel. California is hoping to reduce its fire risk through renewable energy, but some worry about the environmental costs of thinning the forests. 'It Was Torched'...
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