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Ag tech investments double in 2015 despite U.S. farm slump: study
2016-02-18 03:24:01| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Investments in agriculture technology startups surged to a record $4.6 billion in 2015 despite a steep drop in U.S. farm income and slumping profit at farm-affiliated companies such as machinery producers and seed makers, according to a study released on Wednesday. The investments were nearly double the $2.36 billion seeded by venture capitalists and others in 2014, according to the annual report from online food and agriculture investment platform AgFunder.
New study is 'a leap forward' in our understanding of ice sheet behavior
2016-02-17 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In recent years, climate scientists have grown increasingly concerned that massive rivers of ice flowing into the ocean from Greenland and Antarctica could accelerate as the planet warms, leading to a catastrophic collapse of Earth's ice sheets. This grim scenario would cause the world's oceans to rise rapidly, putting many island nations and coastal communities around the world under water. But a new paper in Nature by C.R. Stokes and colleagues presents an alternative narrative of the manner...
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Enhanced levels of carbon dioxide are likely cause of global dryland greening, study says
2016-02-16 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Enhanced levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are a likely key driver of global dryland greening, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. The positive trend in vegetation greenness has been observed through satellite images, but the reasons for it had been unclear. After analyzing 45 studies from eight countries, Lixin Wang, assistant professor of earth sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and a Ph.D. student in Wang's...
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Study Ties U.S. to Spike Global Methane Emissions
2016-02-16 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: There was a huge global spike in one of the most potent greenhouse gases driving climate change over the last decade, and the U.S. may be the biggest culprit, according a new Harvard University study. The United States alone could be responsible for between 30 percent and 60 percent of the global growth in human-caused atmospheric methane emissions since 2002 because of a 30 percent spike in methane emissions across the country, the study says. The research shows that emissions increased the most...
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Second Review of EPAs Fracking Study Urges Revisions to Major Statements in Executive Summary
2016-02-16 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) independent Scientific Advisory Board Members of the Hydraulic Fracturing Research Advisory Panel released today a second review of the U.S. EPAs draft assessment saying that that they still have "concerns" regarding the clarity and adequacy of support for several findings presented in the EPAs draft Assessment Report of the impacts of fracking on drinking water supplies in the U.S. This second draft report is still very critical of the EPAs...
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