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Climate change drove woolly mammoths to extinction, say scientists
2015-07-26 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The mighty megafauna of the last ice age, including the wooly mammoths, short-faced bears and cave lions, largely went extinct because of rapid climate-warming events, a new study finds. During the unstable climate of the Late Pleistocene, about 60,000 to 12,000 years ago, abrupt climate spikes, called interstadials, increased temperatures between 7 and 29 degrees Fahrenheit (4 and 16 degrees Celsius) in a matter of decades. Large animals likely found it difficult to survive in these hot conditions,...
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Recession, not gas, drove drop in US emissions: Study
2015-07-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Economic recession was the main cause for a drop in United States carbon dioxide emissions between 2007 and 2013 -- not a shift from coal- to gas-fuelled energy as widely claimed, researchers said Tuesday. US emissions of carbon dioxide, the main contributor to manmade global warming, fell by around 11 percent in the six-year period, according to a paper in the journal Nature Communications. "Coinciding with the post-2007 decline in emissions, innovations in hydraulic fracturing technology...
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Man who drove with victim in windshield sentenced to prison
2015-06-26 00:02:59| Footwear - Topix.net
A man who struck a New Jersey pedestrian and drove with the victim lodged in his car's windshield has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Thirty-three-year-old Marcos Ortega was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide in the death of Kenneth Moeller in November.
A truck drove through Advanced Auto Parts on Cloverdale Road on Wednesday.
2015-06-04 03:54:29| Auto Parts - Topix.net
The wreck happened just after 9:00 on Wednesday morning at the Advance Auto Parts store on Cloverdale Road. Company officials say there were employees and customers in the store at the time of the crash, but no one was hurt.
New Jersey Governor Christie's office drove favorable Exxon settlement: NYT
2015-03-05 15:06:09| Energy - Topix.net
New Jersey's long legal battle to recover $8.9 billion from Exxon Mobil Corp for environmental damage ended when Governor Chris Christie's chief counsel, Christopher Porrino, cut a deal to settle for $250 million, the New York Times reported, citing two people familiar with the negotiation. The Times reported last week that the settlement, which has not been made public, had been reached after 11 years of legal battle over New Jersey's claim for damages from Exxon Mobil for the contamination of more than 1,500 acres of wetlands and waters.
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