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Climate Change Will Hit America in Breadbasket, Scientists Say
2015-02-25 01:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Climate experts have seen the future of America's breadbasket and from their perspective, it doesn't look pretty. "I don't want to be a wheat farmer in Kansas in the future," said Harold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma. Brooks isn't a wheat farmer. He's a researcher who has analyzed how climate change could affect the weather in America's midsection, based on historical data and computer modeling. Last year, he and his colleagues found...
Pork is not Over Consumed in US, say National Pork Board
2015-02-20 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The National Pork Board reminds Americans that meat, including pork, is a nutrient-dense food that is not over consumed on average in America.
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Space-Based Measurments Can Track Global Ocean Acidity, Researchers Say
2015-02-16 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: An international team of scientists has developed new methods for studying the acidity of the oceans from space, according to research published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Currently, scientists must rely on measurements taken from research vessels and sampling equipment deployed in oceans to determine acidity which rises as the oceans absorb CO2 from the atmosphere but this approach is expensive and geographically limited. The new techniques use satellite-mounted thermal...
Keystone XL snagged again in Nebraska, could be months in court, opponents say
2015-02-12 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: With a major decision on the Keystone XL pipeline looming in Washington, the project faces yet another snag in the place where opposition to it began Nebraska. Opponents there say they may have stalled it for more than a year. The perenially postponed pipeline project will wind its way through the Nebraska court system yet again, with both sides asking the courts for more clarity on the legality of imposing the route on hostile landowners. A lawyer who fought the project once to the state supreme...
Micro condos will face their first real test in Canada this year, experts say
2015-02-09 18:20:36| Real Estate - Topix.net
The appeal of so-called shoebox condos - no larger than the size of two average living rooms - will face its first real test in Canada this year, with an influx of the compact homes set to hit the country's largest real estate market. Investors are betting on big returns from young renters who can't afford to buy in the red-hot real estate market and don't mind living in a unit, about 500 square feet, where their dining table might have to fold down into a bed.
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