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Seattle wants to cut emissions in half by 2025
2016-03-11 10:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Auto Blog: In the face of global climate change, city after city and country after country are taking steps to reduce their emissions and cut their carbon footprint. As the transportation sector is a huge contributor to greenhouse gases, it's an obvious place to start, especially with the gradual shift toward electrification and alternative fuels. Often, though, the goals prove too lofty, and an enthusiastic beginning can be met with a disappointing end. Still, it's important that cities and countries continue...
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'Ultra-processed' foods make up more than half of all calories in US diet
2016-03-11 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: 'Ultra-processed' foods make up more than half of all calories consumed in the US diet, and contribute nearly 90% of all added sugar intake, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open. Ultra-processed foods are formulations of several ingredients. Besides salt, sugar, oils and fats, they include substances not generally used in cooking, such as flavourings, emulsifiers, and other additives designed to mimic the qualities of 'real foods'. Ultra-processed foods include mass produced...
Dropbox tops half a billion users
2016-03-08 08:54:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Online storage service Dropbox announced that it's passed the milestone of 500 million registered users. Last summer it passed 400 million. Dropbox said new users are coming especially from outside its home market the US, in countries such as Brazil, India, the UK and Germany, as well as acquaintances of existing users, which accounts for 44 percent of new accounts. Dropbox's customers have created 3.3 billion connections to share content since the service launched in 2008. In the past year alone, the number of connections rose by 51 percent.
Viega Announces 2016 First Half Training Schedule
2016-03-04 11:31:06| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Viega offers training sessions in a variety of programs within the plumbing and heating industry WICHITA, Kan. Viega LLC announces the schedule for the first half of its 2016 training programs at the Viega Educational Facility located in Nashua, N.H. The programs aim to bring plumbing and heating professionals up...
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Climate Change Could Cause Half a Million Deaths in 2050, Due to Reduced Food Availability
2016-03-03 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: By 2050, global climate change will have made its mark on nutritional health. New research published March 2 in The Lancet finds that by making food less available, climate change could account for more than 500,000 deaths that year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says climate change already has reduced crop yields. For example, in Brazil corn yields are down 8 percent, and in Russia wheat yield has dropped 14 percent. When crop yield goes down, food prices go up, as do a whole...
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