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Great Barrier Reef doomed but our dome will save us
2016-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WAToday: The Great Barrier Reef is almost certainly doomed. But that's OK, because our own doom is only probable, not certain. It will die before we do. It will die because of us. But we are such a resourceful, inventive, endlessly self-seeking species that we might yet survive the catastrophe we have visited upon the planet. Maybe in domes. Yes, huge city-sized domes with a Soylent Green stall on every corner. That would be cool. The reef is not part of that future though. Like the lake districts of...
Map shows the wildest land linking protected areas of the U.S
2016-05-31 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wilderness: New research reveals key corridors that allow wildlife to move between protected areas of the U.S.--and explains why these places must be protected further. A paper published in the journal PLOS ONE by scientists from The Wilderness Society and other organizations identified the wildest corridors between national parks and other protected lands and suggested limiting development along these crucial "wild ways." With increasing development and ongoing climate change forcing plants and animals...
FAA selects AUDS for evaluation at US airports
2016-05-31 01:00:00| Airport Technology
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has chosen the world's first fully integrated, detect-track-disrupt-defeat anti-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) defence system (AUDS) to evaluate technologies at US airports, as part of its Pathfinder Progra
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Update on Swine Enteric Coronavirus Disease in US
2016-05-27 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The number of pig farm samples that were confirmed positive for porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) in the last week was 21. There were two premises confirmed with having porcine delta coronavirus (PDCoV) and none with the dual infection (PEDV and PDCoV), in the 19 May 2016 report.
Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S
2016-05-25 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The number of U.S. jobs in solar energy overtook those in oil and natural gas extraction for the first time last year, helping drive a global surge in employment in the clean-energy business as fossil-fuel companies faltered. Employment in the U.S. solar business grew 12 times faster than overall job creation, the International Renewable Energy Agency said in a report on Wednesday. About 8.1 million people worldwide had jobs in the clean energy in 2015, up from 7.7 million in 2014, according to...
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