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Q&A: Integrating science to reduce disaster risk
2015-03-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The goal of the UN's third conference on disaster risk reduction, which starts tomorrow in Sendai, Japan, is to agree new guidelines for how nations can reduce the devastation caused by tsunamis, earthquakes and other disasters. The ten-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), an international agreement that has guided these activities for the past decade, is due to be replaced by these guidelines, which are informally called HFA2. This may even be legally binding, depending on the result of negotiations...
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NASA chief has perfect comeback to Ted Cruz's attack on Earth science
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Texas Republican Senator and likely presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has had it with NASA researching our home planet, preferring that NASA devote its attention to sending humans to Mars and inspiring children with space exploration missions. His vision collided with NASA's actual mission, which has been in place since its founding in 1958, and was represented at a Senate hearing on Thursday by NASA administrator Charles Bolden. Senator Cruz's critique of what he sees as an agency that has drifted...
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John Kerry: Climate Science is a Fact, Just Like Law Of Gravity
2015-03-13 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
HNGN: Secretary of State John Kerry lashed out at climate science deniers during a speech Thursday to the Atlantic Council, comparing anthropogenic climate change to universally accepted laws of physics and saying that it's "just plain immoral" to not face "reality." Secretary of State John Kerry lashed out at climate science deniers during a speech Thursday to the Atlantic Council, comparing anthropogenic climate change to universally accepted laws of physics and saying that it's "just plain immoral"...
Higher Education & Specialty Contracting: Florida Polytechnic University Innovation Science & Tech
2015-03-11 21:06:17| ENR.com: Headline News
Innovation Science &Technology Building came in on time and on budget despite the many challenges of the design of Santiago Calatrava.
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The next frontier in planet science: exo-rings
2015-03-10 14:43:12| Extremetech
A new method of looking at planets outside our solar system could reveal distant Saturns -- and planets far more spectacular.
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