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Nintendo announces Mario Golf: World Tour for 3DS, out in 2013
2013-02-18 03:14:46| Electronics - Topix.net
During Nintendo's recent direct streaming video event hosted by president Satoru Iwata, the company unveiled a brand new Mario Golf game to add to the burgeoning release slate for the Nintendo 3DS.
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World Bank Is Committed to Forest Communities
2013-02-18 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Bank: Here at the World Bank we believe that independent internal evaluation is central to strengthening our work. Rigorous, evidence-based evaluation informs the design of global programs and enhances the development impact of partner and country efforts. The World Bank Groups Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) has undertaken a review of the implementation of the 2002 Forest Strategy. The strategy emphasized the positive developmental benefits of forest conservation and management, while strengthening...
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Peru: Gas giant backtracks on exploration in UNESCO World Heritage Site
2013-02-18 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Survival International: The Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeast Peru into one of the most biodiverse places on earth, following a shock exposure this week by The Guardian newspaper and Survival International. The company has released a statement in which it admitted planning what it described as 'superficial geological studies for scientific interest,` in Manu National Park, but promising that it had now abandoned these plans. The...
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world
2013-02-18 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: People in the rich world should become "demitarians" eating half as much meat as usual, while stopping short of giving it up in order to avoid severe environmental damage, scientists have urged, in the clearest picture yet of how farming practices are destroying the natural world. They said the horsemeat scandal had uncovered the dark side of our lust for meat, which has fuelled a trade in undocumented livestock and mislabelled cheap ready meals. "There is a food chain risk," said Professor...
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Ex-IPCC Head: Prepare for 5°C Warmer World
2013-02-17 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The world has missed the chance to keep greenhouse gas emissions below the level needed to prevent the temperature climbing above 2° Celsius, according to the British scientist who used to chair the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The scientist, Sir Robert Watson, chaired the Panel from 1997 until 2002, when he was ousted after U.S. pressure for his removal. Watson said there is a 50-50 chance of preventing global average temperatures rising more than 3°C above their level...
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