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Coal in Poland Lowering Life Spans
2015-06-08 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The children Karolina Zolna knows huff and puff after a few minutes of exercise. Two years ago, her infant daughter spent four months in the hospital with pneumonia. The doctors did not identify a cause, but to Ms. Zolna, the reason for the babys illness was obvious. She blames the pollution that hangs heavy in the air of her gray hometown in Polands coal heartland, Silesia. In the still-chilly early days of spring, thick smoke wafted from most of the chimneys in Myslowice, wreathing the town...
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Cutting plastic waste save marine life might raise living costs, Queensland MP says
2015-06-08 10:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Queensland opposition has urged the government to resist a scheme to cut marine wildlife deaths by restricting plastic bag use because they say it will raise the cost of living. The environment minister, Steven Miles, raised the issue of plastic waste causing deaths in turtles on Monday, World Oceans Day, while highlighting the governments establishment of an advisory group on ways to tackle the litter issue. Miles said turtles were particularly vulnerable, with 940 being stranded on Queensland...
Ulbricht Appeals Life Sentence for Silk Road Crimes
2015-06-05 22:02:13| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The Silk Road mastermind got life for being the "kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise."
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Cosmic rays could power subsurface life in the universe
2015-06-05 18:00:42| Extremetech
A new paper proposes the possibility that life in subsurface environments -- places where photosynthesis is a non-starter -- could eke out a living by feeding upon cosmic rays.
Portland celebrates Pastor W.G. Hardy Jr. for lessons on life -- and now mortality
2015-06-05 17:44:32| PortlandOnline
Melissa Binder in The Oregonian, June 5, 2015
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