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Canada needs to set a price on carbon, once and for all

2016-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Toronto Star: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows it. Most Canadians know it. And Ontarios Kathleen Wynne and most of the premiers know it. We need to put a serious price on carbon to do our bit to keep the Earth from getting too warm, and inflicting havoc on much of the planet in the form of melting ice caps, freakish weather, heat waves, droughts and floods. So its discouraging that Trudeau and the premiers could not agree at their get-together in Vancouver this past week on a pan-Canadian framework to...

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A chance for sphagnum is a chance for all

2016-02-26 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: This fragile peat dome, halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, is lacerated with a grid of channels, ripped through the fibres of its dark earth. On a cold wet February day, in a biting wind, the summit of Fannyside Muir is an impressively wide expanse of nodding heather plants, but the prominent leggy heather is not the architect of the bog. A closer look is needed to discern the construction team: the resident array of Sphagnum mosses a scatter of tightly packed pink hummocks and, in a little...

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JEDEC certifies GDDR5X will AMD, Nvidia tap it for next-gen graphics after all?

2016-01-25 16:30:21| Extremetech

The memory standard consortium JEDEC has released an official standard for GDDR5X. The new memory is based on existing GDDR5 and doubles memory bandwidth compared to existing hardware. We could see the new memory shipping within a year, though some caveats apply.

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