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No Drought Relief in Sight For Desiccated West
2014-05-01 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: For anyone living east of the Mississippi River, where major tornado outbreaks, torrential rainfall and flooding have been the headlines of the past week, it's hard to imagine that 40 percent of the U.S. is experiencing some level of abnormally dry conditions, many of them extreme. Though the overall spread of dry conditions across the U.S. has diminished slightly over recent weeks, and about 15 percent over the past year, the drought hotspots in the West remain desiccated. The driest places...
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Sight Glass Magnets protect equipment and products.
2014-04-21 14:33:48| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Available to fit most sight glass loaders, Permanent Rare Earth Sight Glass Magnets remove fine and weakly magnetic ferrous contaminants, while Super Strength Rare Earth Permanent Sight Glass Magnets remove fine and weakly magnetic ferrous contamination from material flowing to injection machines or extruders. Units come in 1 or 5/8 in. magnet diameters and feature continuously welded stainless steel construction. This story is related to the following:Separator Magnets | Permanent Magnets
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Dont lose sight of the people behind big data
2014-04-15 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: In the wrong hands, large datasets can do more harm than good, says Sanjana Hattotuwa. Accountability is crucial. The policeman who came to see me was affable and just following instructions. It was 2009, near the end of Sri Lanka's brutal 27-year-old civil war, though nobody knew at the time. He asked me to enter my personal details on a website called citizens.lk, set up by the all-powerful Ministry of Defence (MoD). I asked him politely what law required me to enter my data into the system....
No End in Sight for Containing Galveston Bay Heavy Oil Spill
2014-03-24 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Texas Tribune: With no end in sight to containing a spill that may have dumped 150,000 gallons of fuel oil into Galveston Bay on Saturday, the hit to Texas' economy and environment is already huge -- and sure to grow. The 50-mile Houston Ship Channel, one of the world's biggest waterways for the transport of petroleum products, chemicals and other materials, remains shut down. Cruise ships can't depart from key ports. Galveston Bay's multibillion-dollar recreational and commercial fishing industry is off limits...
Weekly Overview: End in Sight for Sow Stalls in Canada
2014-03-10 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Canada has a new Code of Practice on pig welfare that spells the end of sow stalls as well as including new standards for pain control and environment enrichment, writes Jackie Linden. It has been generally welcomed by the industry and animal welfare campaigners. Six out of 10 Australian sows are now in group housing systems, it was revealed last week.
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