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Dont lose sight of the people behind big data
2014-04-15 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: In the wrong hands, large datasets can do more harm than good, says Sanjana Hattotuwa. Accountability is crucial. The policeman who came to see me was affable and just following instructions. It was 2009, near the end of Sri Lanka's brutal 27-year-old civil war, though nobody knew at the time. He asked me to enter my personal details on a website called citizens.lk, set up by the all-powerful Ministry of Defence (MoD). I asked him politely what law required me to enter my data into the system....
Canadian economy will lose billions climate change: report
2014-04-14 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: A new report on the financial implications of climate change notes that while natural catastrophes are estimated to cost Canadians $21-$43 billion per year by 2050, popular economic measures like GDP fail to capture the escalation, discouraging preventative investment. The TD report follows a recent and alarming warning by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that governments are ill-prepared for a warming world. If action is not immediately taken, the UN report projected...
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Ocean Acidification Could Make Fish Lose Their Fear Of Predators, Study Finds
2014-04-14 12:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Add "losing fear of predators" to the long list of impacts acidifying oceans could have on fish and other marine life. A new study published in Nature Climate Change has found that elevated CO2 levels in marine waters make reef fish attracted to the smell of their predators, rather than being repelled. Researchers looked at multiple species of reef fish living near natural volcanic CO2 seeps in Papua New Guinea, an environment the study says is acidified to levels comparable to projections of...
'Big four' supermarkets lose out
2014-04-08 11:49:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Discount and premium supermarkets are continuing to gain market share at the expense of the big four chains, a research firm says.
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Industry Groups Lose Latest Appeal over COOL
2014-03-31 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NORTH AMERICA - The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has turned down an appeal that would have placed a block on new Country of Origin Labelling rules in the US.
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