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Forest loss increased annually for 25 yrs at oldest Amazon mega-dam
2016-01-14 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Researchers examining changes in forest cover encircling the Amazons oldest mega-dam have found that hundreds of square kilometers of forest have been lost each year of the dams 25-year history. The study, published in Applied Geography late in 2015, was undertaken by an international team from the US, Brazil, and the Netherlands. They describe the Tucuruí dam, constructed in the 1980s, as an ideal case for understanding the long-term impact of mega-dams on rainforest loss. Great rivers across...
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Fossil Forests Found In Arctic Circle; Drastic Climate Shifts 380 Million Yrs Ago
2015-11-23 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: "It's amazing that we've uncovered one of the very first forests in the very place that is now being used to preserve the Earth's plant diversity," Dr. Chris Berry, a professor in Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Science, said in a news release. "These fossil forests show us what the vegetation and landscape were like on the equator 380 million years ago, as the first trees were beginning to appear on the Earth." During the Devonian period (420-360 million years ago) there was a...
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Firms pledge to cut modem power consumption by 20% in 2 yrs
2015-06-26 09:53:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) ISPs, equipment suppliers and retail equipment manufacturers have joined the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) to announce a new voluntary agreement to improve the energy efficiency of internet modems, routers and other equipment that deliver broadband to millions of consumers in the US. The agreement sets requirements to improve the energy efficiency of small network equipment (SNE) by 10 to 20 percent compared to typical, recently-deployed devices and cover more than 90 percent of US broadband households, roughly 80 million homes, by 2017. The voluntary SNE agreement's signatories to date include service providers AT&T, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, CenturyLink, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and Verizon, and manufacturers Actiontec, Arris, Cisco, D-Link, EchoStar Technologies, Netgear, Pace and Ubee Interactive.
New Google CFO could get USD 70 mln in 2 yrs
2015-03-27 09:01:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Google said in a regulatory filing that it could be paying newly appointed CFO Ruth Porat a base salary of USD 650,000 a one time bonus of USD 5 million after one year, plus a USD 25 million new hire grant and a USD 40 million biennial grant. The total comes to more than USD 70 million over the next two years. Porat will join Google on 26 May. Google paid outgoing CFO Patrick Pichette, who announced his retirement earlier this month, USD 62.2 million for the three years through 2013, Recode reported. Google said it wanted to stop annual cash bonuses for senior vice presidents next year and shift to a system that includes annual base salary and biennial equity grants.
India says clean energy a $160bn opportunity over 5 yrs
2015-02-27 03:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's renewable energy industry is likely to generate business opportunities worth $160 billion in the next five years, a finance ministry report said on Friday, the day before a federal budget that is set to boost clean energy funding. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is banking on renewables to fight climate change rather than committing to emission cuts like China. He has set ambitious clean-energy targets including raising solar capacity fivefold to 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2022. "It offers a very...
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