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Dream Projects: Giant Clean-Air 'Bubbles' Would Create Urban Havens
2014-11-11 19:13:48| ENR.com: Headline News
Proposed bubble-like structures containing environmentally controlled air would offer urban havens in polluted cities.
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Fair Haven's Old Barge Not Ready For Grave
2014-09-16 21:22:51| Footwear - Topix.net
Before Lisa Fitch sells her Fair Haven Marina she hopes to make another sale, for only one dollar: to preserve the historic oyster barge that has long been on the property. Fitch revealed the news during a tour of the "old barge," which sits at the southern end of the Fair Haven Marina , which Fitch and her family purchased in 2008.
Safe Havens Needed For Biodiversity In A Changed Climate
2014-01-14 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A new approach to identify potential refugia in declining rainfall environments has been developed by a team of scientists lead by Dr. Tom Schut of Wageningen University. The new technique, described in a recent issue of PLoS ONE, involves Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) instruments. The technique is able to translate a traditional plot observation to the entire landscape. According to Dr. Grant Wardell-Johnson of Curtain University, this enabled the scientists to apply expected future changes...
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No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans
2013-10-16 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the worlds oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday. It took a year to analyse and synthesise all of the studies on the impacts of climate change on ocean species, Camilo Mora, an ecologist at University of Hawaii in Honolulu and lead author, told IPS. Mora is also lead author of ground-breaking climate study published in Nature last week. It was very sad to see all the responses were negative....
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AUDIO: Corporations 'embracing' US tax havens
2013-06-18 09:02:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The issue of tax havens will be discussed today at the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. The BBC's North America correspondent Jonny Dymond reports that if President Obama is looking for offenders, he might like to look quite close to home.
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