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Pork Professionals from 41 Countries Expected at 2015 World Pork Expo
2015-06-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Twenty thousand pork producers and other professionals from throughout the world will visit World Pork Expo, June 3-5, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.
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This has been a month of extreme weather around the world
2015-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Even for a world getting used to wild weather, May seems stuck on strange. Torrential downpours in Texas that have whiplashed the region from drought to flooding. A heat wave that has killed more than 1,800 people in India. Record 91-degree readings in Alaska, of all places. A pair of top-of-the-scale typhoons in the Northwest Pacific. And a drought taking hold in the East. Mother Nature keeps throwing us crazy stuff, Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis says. Its just been...
India's killer heatwave deadly warning world we face without climate action
2015-05-30 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands, writes Liz Hanna. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late. The combination of rapidly expanding population, and increasing extreme heat events reducing food yields suggests a perfect storm is brewing. India is currently in the throes of...
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Jewish World, 12:12 AMDozens of Synagogue Members' Homes Damaged in Houston Flood
2015-05-29 12:38:40| Energy - Topix.net
Flooding that began on the 2nd day of the Shavuot holiday this week and continued the next day has damaged a Houston synagogue, a temple, and dozens of Jewish family homes in the southern city. Local and nationwide Jewish organizations are raising funds for the flood-bashed Jewish community.
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World Bank sets methane price floor to cut emissions
2015-05-29 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: To gee up green projects at risk of closure, the World Bank has guaranteed a minimum price for methane credits being auctioned for the first time. That will stimulate investment in projects ranging from biomass to waste management in developing countries, it hopes, curbing emissions of the heat-trapping gas. The owner of a landfill site could capture methane from the waste to generate power, for example. The World Bank says its plans will give financial security to sites in developing countries...
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