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Stunning demise of United Airlines' Jeffery Smisek - just deserts or sacrificial lamb?
2015-09-12 03:28:22| Airlines - Topix.net
Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature. Please read our Legal Terms & Policies Of all of the possible ways in which Jeffery Smisek, the chief executive of United Airlines, might have figured his career could end, an investigation into traffic on a bridge probably didn't appear high on the list.
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Palm oil plantations used to 'reforest' parts of Brazil despite being wildlife deserts
2015-06-30 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It may not surprise you to hear that monocultures of oil palm (tree species of the Elaeis genus) do not support a great diversity of species in comparison to primary forests. But just how bad is it? A recent study systematically documented bird biodiversity within oil palm plantations, finding they contain fewer species than secondary forest and even cattle pasture. As oil palm grows as a commodity in Brazil and can legally even be used to "reforest" land how can a country that has made big gains...
As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran's new problem
2015-03-21 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Nazar Sarani's village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country's worsening water crisis. "We live in the dust," said the 54-year-old cattle herder of his home in the once exceptional biosphere of Lake Hamoun, a wetland of varied flora and fauna, which is now nothing but sand-baked earth. Climate change, with less rainfall each year, is blamed, but so too is human error and government mismanagement. Iran's reservoirs are only 40 percent full according...
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Study predicts global warming will see Australian deserts grow bigger
2015-02-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A United States climate study says global warming will cause Australian deserts to get bigger and expand to the south. The study's lead researcher William Lau, of the University of Maryland, said changes in atmospheric circulation was contributing to global dryness, in terms of a reduction of relative humidity in the sub tropics. Dr Lau said he believed the changes were directly related to prolonged droughts. "We provide a physical basis for inferring that greenhouse warming is likely to...
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Could produce on wheels help eliminate America's food deserts?
2015-02-25 16:14:18| Grocery - Topix.net
Two shoppers walk down the street carrying groceries in Indianapolis in January. More than 20 million Americans live in 'food deserts' where a supermarket is more than 10 miles away.
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