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Africa forests 'threatened by palm oil rush'
2016-02-23 02:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Africas tropical forests are threatened by a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of old-growth hectares in south-east Asia, Greenpeace France warned on Tuesday. The NGO called on European palm and rubber plantation giant Socfin, which controls vast tracts of tropical land in more than half-a-dozen African nations, to join other multinationals in adopted so-called zero deforestation policies. Dozens of global companies - GAR, Cargill, and Agropalma among commodity producers,...
Dad in Ohio house explosion threatened to kill himself weeks earlier
2016-01-14 22:37:15| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
The house explosion that led to the discovery of the bodies of two young girls and their parents is being investigated as a murder-suicide, according to Summit County Medical Examiner records. Records also show that Jeff Mather, 43, had recent struggles with mental illness and threatened to kill himself before being admitted to a mental health facility.
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Japan's pioneer power steering maker feels threatened by advent of driverless cars
2015-12-22 04:41:45| Automakers - Topix.net
A Japanese company that once revolutionized the auto industry by inventing electric power-steering now finds itself on the wrong side of the latest technology innovation: driverless cars. Jtekt Corp.'s innovation almost three decades ago outperformed the traditional hydraulic technology and allowed the company to become one of the biggest suppliers to Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers.
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VIDEO: Cocoa threatened by climate change
2015-12-11 13:17:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The cocoa industry in West Africa is under threat from rising global temperatures.
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Recycling: Food Waste For PigswillSave Threatened Forests
2015-12-10 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Domestic pigs have no problem eating our leftovers, and saving food waste to feed livestock could even save vast swathes of Brazilian forest and savannah, Cambridge researchers say. However, in order to protect these threatened environments, the European Union will need to lift its ban on pigswill-feeding. The ban was originally implemented across the EU in 2002 when a U.K. farmer illegally fed uncooked food waste to his pigs, causing an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a highly contagious...
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