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Don't Be Alarmed: Google Search Gets a Mini-Makeover
2014-03-14 02:33:44| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Google has nixed the underlines on search results, and upped the font size of titles.
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Canada: Protestors alarmed by Line 9, climate change
2013-11-17 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Waterloo Record: Armed with placards, homemade banners and other protest signs, demonstrators descended on MP Peter Braid's office Saturday to draw attention to climate change, the oil sands and the contentious Line 9 pipeline project. The group, which numbered about 50, solicited the occasional honk from passersby as they huddled on the sidewalk in Uptown Waterloo. The gathering was one of about 125 similar protests across the country organized on the weekend by Lead Now. They're worried about environmental...
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Global power brokers 'alarmed' as US has a fracking good time
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: A few years ago when you headed from Bismarck in central North Dakota up towards Williston in the state's north-west it might have seemed you were heading from nowhere to nothing. You'd drive on empty roads by the badlands of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park and if you missed the farming town of 14,000 you would hit Canada a few hours later. Not any more. Williston is at the epicentre of a US oil and gas boom sparked by fracking technology that some economists believe will arrest America's...
Japan nuclear regulator alarmed at Fukushima contamination reports
2013-07-10 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's nuclear regulator expressed growing alarm on Wednesday at increased contamination beside the seafront of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and urged the plant's operators to take protective measures. Fukushima's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., has acknowledged problems are mounting at the plant north of Tokyo, the site of the world's worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. On Tuesday, the company said radiation levels in groundwater had soared, suggesting...
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Scientists alarmed as CO2 passes threshold
2013-05-10 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed a symbolic milestone this week, scientists announced Friday, reaching levels that havent prevailed on the Earth since long before human civilization began. The long-expected announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that CO2 concentrations had finally hit 400 parts per million at a key measuring station in Hawaii means little by itself. But its a sign that time is slipping away to head off or lessen...
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