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Australia repeals carbon tax, scientists freak out
2014-07-17 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The cartoonish stereotype of Australia of yesteryear featured a rough-headed bloke in an Akubra hat wrangling crocodiles. That image has finally been scrubbed from our collective memories -- only to be replaced with something worse. Today, when we read news dispatches from Australia, we`re seeing a dunderheaded prime minister cartoonishly wrangling commonsense, becoming the first leader in the warming world to repeal a price on carbon. It`s like George W. Bush, Crocodile Dundee-style. Conservative...
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Canadian politicians on attack after scientists call for more research into fracking
2014-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Deputy premier Rich Coleman challenged Thursday the conclusions of a scientific panel into the environmental effect of shale gas development using fracking. The group of Canadian and U.S. scientists, appointed in 2011 by former federal environment minister Peter Kent to examine the sector's potential and risks across Canada, urge a cautionary, go-slow approach until more research is done on a relatively new sector. Coleman, responsible for an industry that Victoria considers an economic linchpin...
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Scientists Confirm Burning Fossil Fuels Worsens Australian Drought
2014-07-17 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: American scientists have just confirmed that parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions, which means that the long-term decline in rainfall over south and south-west Australia is a consequence of fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity. Such a finding is significant for two reasons. One remains contentious: it is one thing to make generalized predictions about the consequences overall of greenhouse gas levels, but it is quite another...
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Rice, Lawrence Livermore scientists characterize performance of carbon-based Li-ion battery anodes; simple descriptor
2014-07-14 22:30:44| Green Car Congress
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Scientists Successfully Map Peanut DNA
2014-07-14 21:21:00| Food Processing
The International Peanut Genome Initiative says it has successfully sequenced the genome of the peanut.
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