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Tip of the Week: The Practical Safeguarding of Persons and Property
2015-06-29 15:06:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Article 90 of the NEC will help you understand why the code was created and what it covers. read more
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2 C temperature rise limit would fall short of safeguarding most countries - study
2015-03-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The 2-degree-Celsius temperature rise limit globally accepted as a means to avoid dangerous climate change is a "mathematical aggregate" and a mere average of data collected from hundreds of climate stations around the world and thrown into climate models to forecast the effects of climate change. It fails to protect those nations most at risk, according to Petra Tschakert, a professor at Pennsylvania State University and coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's...
Balancing act: safeguarding energy security in the UK
2014-09-17 01:00:00| Power Technology
The UK has been reforming its energy market to provide the capacity it will need over the next decade and beyond. With the risk of blackouts looming, will the country's short-term balancing reserves and the establishment of a capacity market be able
Safeguarding the future of food security
2014-05-14 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tucked away beneath the rolling Sussex countryside, crate upon crate of bloated, brown paper bags are piled high. Fastened with a clerical bulldog clip and neatly labelled, the unassuming exteriors belie their import. For within these bland wrappers are crucial tools for safeguarding our food security in the face of climate change, pests, population growth and disease: seeds. But these are no run-of-the-mill offerings - they are wild, undomesticated relatives of 29 of our most crucial global crops,...
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Safeguarding Worlds Most Irreplaceable Protected Areas
2013-11-15 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The world`s most irreplaceable site for threatened species is Colombia`s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Natural National Park, a fact that has emerged from new research identifying the protected areas most critical to preventing extinctions. The Santa Marta woodstar, a hummingbird endemic to Colombia`s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Natural National Park (Photo by L.E. Uruea / Birds of Colombia) Of the world`s 3,057 endangered species, 44 are found in this park near Colombia`s mountainous northern...
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