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Sydney dims down for Earth Hour climate change protest
2013-03-23 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has switched off its lights for an hour as the Earth Day climate change protest gets under way across the globe. A small crowd cheered and applauded as the skyline went dark. The Opera House was lit in a deep shade of green to symbolise renewable energy. The annual event is organised by WWF, the global environment campaign. It encourages cities and individuals to switch off non-essential lights for an hour at 20:30 local time. Critics have dismissed the...
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Charlotte to participate in Earth Hour
2013-03-23 12:09:44| Energy - Topix.net
A group that promotes environmental sustainability is working with Charlotte employers, residents and governments to encourage people to turn off their lights for one hour.
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UN wants Tanzania to bulk up efforts to protect fragile Earth
2013-03-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Citizen: Dar es Salaam. The UN yesterday called for joint global efforts towards the preservation of ecosystems saying they play a major role in climate change adaptation. The deputy executive secretary for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Mr Richard Kinley, said in Dar es Salaam that the world is on the verge of the climate crisis. He told the UNFCCC international workshop on ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation to climate change that nobody is immune from the impact of...
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First images released from newest Earth observation satellite
2013-03-21 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: NASA and the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which was launched Feb. 11. The natural-color images show the intersection of the United States Great Plains and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and Colorado. In the images, green coniferous forests in the mountains stretch down to the brown plains with Denver and other cities strung south to north. LDCM acquired...
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Earth Cube-$5 million funding to marry geoscience and IT
2013-03-21 18:38:18| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
US National Science Foundation debates proliferating standards at OGC Redlands meet.
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