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New Ozone-Depleting Chemicals Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
2015-02-19 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: In 1989, the United Nations enforced a treaty to regulate the use and production of chemicals that cause ozone depletion. Since then, the Montreal Protocol has had six amendments to include scientific update on substances that damage Earths atmosphere. A recent report by scientists from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds states that some chemicals not included in the treaty have been damaging the ozone layer. These very short-lived substances (VSLS) are increasing in...
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Animals tend to evolve toward larger size over time, Stanford study finds
2015-02-19 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Does evolution follow certain rules? If, in the words of the famed evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, one could “rewind the tape of life”, would certain biological trends reemerge? Asked another way: can evolution be predicted?New research suggests that, for at least one important biological trait-body size-the answer is yes. In one of the most comprehensive studies of body size evolution ever conducted, Stanford scientists have found …
Recycled Shipping Containers Meet Sanitation Standards, Study Finds
2015-02-18 22:44:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.environmentalleader.com/">Environmental Leader</a> Every one of the corrugated shipping containers tested in a new study met acceptable sanitation levels, according to the University of California-Davis and toxicology experts Haley & Aldrich. read more
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Study finds climate change might dramatically reduce wheat production
2015-02-18 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hutchinson News: A recent study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the coming decades at least one-quarter of the world's wheat production will be lost to extreme weather from climate change if no adaptive measures are taken. Vara Prasad, professor of crop ecophysiology and director of the USAID Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab at Kansas State University, is part of a collaborative team that found wheat yields are projected to decrease by 6 percent for each degree...
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UI study shows pigs regulate sulfur retention in DDGS diets
2015-02-18 18:33:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: University of Illinois Distillers dried grains with solubles is becoming a more common ingredient in swine diets. However, DDGS can be high in sulfur, and data are limited on the amount of sulfur that pigs can tolerate in the diet. read more
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