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Scientists investigating nation's worst methane hot spot in Four Corners area
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deseret News: Four research planes and more than two dozen scientists and technologists are wrapping up a monthlong study in the Four Corners area. They have been trying to figure out the source of the nation`s largest concentration of airborne methane. In the region where Utah rubs shoulders with three other states, satellite imagery detected the nation's worst methane hot spot. "That`s a huge anomaly," said Andrew Thorpe from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "But we don`t know exactly where the methane...
UN scientists warn time is running out to tackle global warming
2015-05-04 06:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments are running out of time to address climate change and to avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures, an influential UN panel warned yesterday. Greater energy efficiency, renewable electricity sources and new technology to dump carbon dioxide underground can all help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the experts said. But there could be as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global average rise of 2C or more. The warning came in a report from the Intergovernmental...
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Biotech execs remember MIT professor: 'He inspired so many scientists'
2015-05-01 23:30:20| Biotech - Topix.net
Richard Pops was 28 years old when he first went to a job interview with Alexander Rich, who was laid up in a hospital with kidney problems.
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Oregonian: A volcano may be erupting off the Oregon coast, scientists say
2015-05-01 16:21:26| PortlandOnline
News story posted to oregonlive.com April 30, 2015.
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UN Scientists Call for Action Marine Microplastics as New York Assembly Passes Microbeads Ban
2015-04-30 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: New York may become the next state to ban microbeads. Last week, the New York Assembly passed a bill, the Microbeads-Free Waters Act, which would prohibit the sale of personal cosmetic products containing microbeads. The bill passed by an overwhelming majority of 139 to 1. The bill would prohibit the sale of personal cosmetic products containing synthetic plastic microbeads after January 1, 2016, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Over-the-counter drugs that fall under...
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