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Old Canton a city full of history

2014-09-22 01:41:38| Airlines - Topix.net

With direct China Southern Airlines flights between Perth and Guangzhou, and then connections to 190 destinations in 40 countries, there's a good chance of a stopover in the city previously known as Canton. In Guangzhou's Tianhe District in the central business district, this 600m tower opened in 2010 and is one of the tallest in China.

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Thousands expected NYC for largest climate-change march in history

2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Celebrities, activists and political leaders are expected to join more than 100,000 people in New York City on Sunday for what organizers say will be the largest climate-change march in history. The Peoples Climate March has been endorsed by more than 1,400 organizations, including environment, faith and justice groups, as well as labor unions. Students have also mobilized marchers at more than 300 college campuses for the event, which calls on world leaders to do more to confront the threat...

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Study on global carbon cycle may require reappraisal of climate events in Earth's history

2014-09-17 07:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: A recent study of the global carbon cycle offers a new perspective of Earth's climate records through time. Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science suggest that one of the current methods for interpreting ancient changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans may need to be re-evaluated. The UM Rosenstiel School researchers measured the abundance of carbon-12 and carbon-13 isotopes in both the organic matter and...

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Today in History for Sept. 12, 2014

2014-09-13 00:33:32| Airlines - Topix.net

Today is Friday, September 12, the 255th day of 2014. There are 110 days left in the year.

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Today in History: Sept. 12

2014-09-12 16:13:46| Airlines - Topix.net