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Thanks in part to climate change, American West will see more fiery summers
2014-04-18 06:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Wildfires are getting bigger and more frequent in the American West. It`s not your imagination. And the summers ahead will bring more of them, even larger than the ones that came before. That`s the conclusion of a new study for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) prepared by a team of researchers led by Philip Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The authors used satellite data to measure areas of more than 1,000 acres burned by large fires from Nebraska to...
Walter Energy to idle two B.C. mines that will temporarily layoff about 700
2014-04-15 23:08:49| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Walter Energy said it expects to incur severance charges of approximately $7 million in the second quarter of 2014 in connection with the idling of the mines in northeastern B.C. The company said it will immediately idle the Wolverine mine, with about 415 employees.
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15-40% of the CO2 We Emit Today Will Still Be Around in 1,000 Years
2014-04-14 12:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Professor Anders Hammer Strmman with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology warns that, according to evidence at hand, whatever greenhouse gas emissions human society releases into the planet's atmosphere these day will be felt for several hundred years. More precisely, the researcher, who also happens to be one of the authors of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, says that, of the carbon dioxide emissions that make it into the environment in this day and...
Facebook details its plans to bring drone internet access to the masses but will monopolistic telcos stand idly by?
2014-04-01 16:01:02| Extremetech
Facebook has released its whitepaper on why drones are a superior fit for global Internet coverage and the company makes some excellent points on the topic -- but are drones really a good fit for the realities of the situation on the ground?
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Extracting carbon from nature can aid climate but will be costly-UN
2014-03-26 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A little-known technology that may be able to take the equivalent of China's greenhouse gas emissions out of the carbon cycle could be the radical policy shift needed to slow climate change this century, a draft U.N. report shows. Using the technology, power plants would burn biomass - wood, wood pellets, or plant waste like from sugar cane - to generate electricity while the carbon dioxide in the biomass is extracted, piped away and buried deep underground. Among techniques, a chemical process...
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