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Swine Health Information Center begins tackling disease risks
2015-07-16 18:53:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Swine Health Information Center Early reaction from pork producers and their veterinarians to the new Swine Health Information Center has been overwhelmingly positive. read more
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Easing Alaska's wildfire seasons means tackling climate change
2015-07-10 03:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch News: Alaska is burning. As of July 8 more than 300 fires are blazing across the state in an extreme and costly fire season that could last well into August. Firefighters and the resources they depend on are being pressed to the limits. I know exactly what our front-line defenders are going through. Ive been there. During the summer of 1983, I was among a group of smokejumpers dispatched from western states to Alaska during a major fire bust, a relatively large number of fires started mostly by...
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British Columbia is looking at a new approach to tackling climate change adaptation
2015-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Premier Christy Clark just handed out her cabinet ministers' assignments for the coming year, laying out their responsibilities and pet projects. Balance the budget, keep government lean, secure the generational opportunity of liquefied natural gas - all the usual themes are there. But buried in the bottom of the priorities list is one new task that signals her government has started to grasp the inescapable impact of climate change. "Working with the Ministry of Environment, undertake an analysis...
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Australia: Broad coalition formed to seek common ground on tackling climate change
2015-06-28 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Major business, union, research, environment, investor and social groups have formed the Australian Climate Roundtable in an effort to put the climate policy debate on common ground and offer a way forward. The groups formation comes just weeks before the Abbott government announces Australias emission reduction target for post-2020, in the run-up to the United Nations climate change conference in Paris later in the year. China is expected to announce its target imminently. The organisations...
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The Catholic Case for Tackling Climate Change
2015-05-21 23:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: "Protecting our environment is an urgent moral imperative and sacred duty for all people of faith and conscience." Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations Pope Francis's much anticipated encyclical on the environment and address to the UN provides Catholics a rare opportunity to take the lead on presenting the moral argument surrounding climate change. While scientific, economic and political arguments regarding climate change have been made for decades, a moral case has yet to fully...
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