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New research provides evidence of coal dust escaping from trains
2013-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OPB: An atmospheric and environmental scientist with the University of Washington gathered air quality samples at two sites next to train tracks in the Northwest. And after testing 450 trains as they passed - roughly 10% of which were carrying coal - Dan Jaffe says some preliminary results from his crowdfunded study are in. We did find an increase in large particles in the air when coal trains pass by and it does suggest that its coal dust and its consistent with coal dust from those trains. One...
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Chevron Vindicated As Evidence Points To 'Green Fraud' By Environmentalists
2013-11-03 00:21:27| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Big Oil: So what happened to the $19 billion judgment against Chevron over rainforest pollution in Ecuador? Seems the leftist lawyer behind it all now finds himself in the dock on a RICO rap for a massive fraud.
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More evidence buyers are shunning Windows Phone: Carrier discounts
2013-10-25 21:06:08| InfoWorld: Top News
What's going on with discounted prices for Windows Phone 8 smartphones like the recently launched Samsung ATIV S Neo and Nokia's Lumia 1020?Carriers won't say much, but they seem to be clearing their shelves of excess smartphone stock that's getting stale by cutting prices for some Windows Phone 8 phones that have been on the market for barely two months.
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Investing in people and evidence for sustainable farming
2013-10-16 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Food security is difficult to pin down. It can be explained simply as access to enough food. But behind that simplicity lies an interconnected web of factors -- from food prices to agricultural practices, nutrition, natural resources, technology, trade and social development. Breaking down such complexity to its component parts is artificial, but is often necessary to gain understanding. It is in that spirit that the collection of articles this week focuses on just one, but fundamental, aspect...
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Making sustainable intensification work on sound evidence
2013-10-16 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A new narrative is slowly taking hold of today's collective thinking about productivity, growth and poverty reduction in developing-country agriculture: the concept of sustainable intensification. Sustainable intensification hinges primarily on practices and technologies that help farmers systematically improve the management of their crops, soil, trees, livestock and water what I will call 'new agronomy'. It is essentially a focused approach to helping farmers simultaneously improve yields...
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