je.st
news
Tag: impact
Opinion divided on impact of China cotton import cuts
2014-09-30 14:40:28| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
China, the world's top cotton consumer, has announced a significant reduction to its low duty 2015 cotton import quota to boost demand for domestically-produced fibre. But experts disagree on whether the policy could pose risks for textile and clothing manufacturers.
Tags: china
opinion
impact
import
Hershey Wins P3 Impact Award for its CocoaLink Program to Improve the Lives of Cocoa Farmers in Ghana
2014-09-30 02:15:30| Food - Topix.net
The Hershey Company was honored today at the Concordia Summit with the prestigious P3 Impact award for its CocoaLink mobile phone program in Ghana. Cocoa experts create weekly text and voice messages based on the cocoa-growing calendar and farmers use their own mobile phones to register for and receive the messages.
Tags: program
improve
impact
lives
Report Indicates Swine Industry has Taken Advantage of PEDV Impact
2014-09-29 19:20:00| National Hog Farmer
The U.S. Department of Agricultures Hogs and Pigs report, released on Friday, indicates that the U.S. industry has moved quickly to take advantage of record profits and backfill productivity losses caused by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. read more
Tags: report
industry
advantage
impact
Climate Impact of Soot Is Exaggerated, Study Says
2014-09-27 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The global warming effect of 'black carbon,' or soot, has been greatly exaggerated due to mistaken assumptions about the atmospheric altitude at which its particles are concentrated, according to a new study. Emissions should be the focus of climate efforts, rather than soot, say team in a Nature paper. Soot plumes belch from chimneys, stoves and forest fires, causing numerous health ailments and, it was thought, a contribution to climate change second only to carbon dioxide. But when recent...
Tags: study
says
impact
climate
Crazy weather traced to Arctic's impact on jet stream
2014-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change may be to blame for more frequent prolonged spells of extreme weather in Europe, Asia and North America, such as heat waves, freezing temperatures or storms. These are relatively short-term periods of bizarre weather, like the cold snap that paralysed North America earlier this year, rather than longer-term rises in temperature. They are related to "stuck" weather patterns, Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Brunswick,...
Tags: impact
weather
crazy
stream
Sites : [294] [295] [296] [297] [298] [299] [300] [301] [302] [303] [304] [305] [306] [307] [308] [309] [310] [311] [312] [313] next »