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Opec plan to kill off US shale supply sends oil price down 7-yr low
2015-12-07 15:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The latest attempt by Saudi Arabia to kill off the threat from US shale oil has sent oil prices slumping to their lowest level since the depths of the global recession almost seven years ago. A barrel of benchmark Brent crude was changing hands at below $42 a barrel after the oil cartel Opec - heavily influenced by Saudi Arabia decided late last week to continue flooding the global market with cheap oil. With global demand weak, traders fear that Opecs refusal to cut production despite the...
Tardigrades, already impossible to kill, also have foreign DNA
2015-11-24 17:02:43| Extremetech
Tardigrades, already made of indestructible win, have shown up again in the scientific weirdness Hall of Fame this week, thanks to a new study that sequenced the first tardigrade genome and found that 17.5% of it came from other species.
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Climate deal urgent after weather-linked disasters kill 600,000 20 years: UN
2015-11-23 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Weather-related disasters have grown more frequent over the last 20 years, claiming more than 600,000 lives, the UN said Monday, issuing a further call for nations to strike a landmark deal on climate change. The report from the United Nations agency for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR) said floods, storms and other extreme weather events have killed 606,000 people since 1995, "with an additional 4.1 billion people injured, left homeless or in need of emergency assistance." The report noted...
Manhattan DA demands Google, Apple implement back doors, kill end-to-end encryption
2015-11-19 13:30:41| Extremetech
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has long hated encryption, but he's stepped up his attack. Vance wants a federal ban on end-to-end encryption like that offered by Google and Apple in their respective operating systems.
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Republicans bid to kill Obama climate rule before UN summit
2015-11-18 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Leading Democrat senators say a Republican-led drive to thwart President Obamas centrepiece climate policy is mainly symbolic and a stunt to erode the administration`s leadership before the Paris climate talks. Twin resolutions to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which plans to cut carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, were both passed on Tuesday evening by 52-46 on the Senate floor. Two Democrats backed the vote. The White House said the move would stall progress on cleaner energy and...
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