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Ready Or Not. Quick Climate Changes Worry Scientists Most
2013-12-03 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: An expert panel at the National Academy of Sciences is calling for an early warning system to alert us to abrupt and potentially catastrophic events triggered by climate change. The committee says science can anticipate some major changes to the Earth that could affect everything from agriculture to sea level. But we aren't doing enough to look for those changes and anticipate their impacts. And this is not a matter for some distant future. The Earth is already experiencing both gradual and...
UN's 2C target will fail to avoid a climate disaster, scientists warn
2013-12-03 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The limit of 2C of global warming agreed by the world's governments is a "dangerous target", "foolhardy" and will not avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change, new research from a panel of eminent climate scientists warned on Tuesday. In a new paper, the climate scientist Professor James Hansen and a team of international experts found the most dangerous effects of a warming climate sea level rise, Arctic ice melt, extreme weather would begin kicking in with a global temperature...
BAL scientists engineer yeast to produce ethanol from brown seaweed; brown seaweed biorefinery
2013-12-03 21:30:37| Green Car Congress
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Scientists Identify New Way to Attack FMD
2013-12-03 15:20:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found a new way to combat foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) using proteins called interferons. These proteins kill or stop viruses from growing and reproducing. read more
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CDC using Army scientists in ricin detection project
2013-11-30 20:56:55| Biotech - Topix.net
Emergency responders test for ricin in a training course. Army researchers are looking to devise a test that will entail 'a glorified Q-tip' that would be exposed to a protein that changes color if it contains ricin.
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