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Climate change could cut world food output 18 percent by 2050
2014-12-18 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming could cause an 18 percent drop in world food production by 2050, but investments in irrigation and infrastructure, and moving food output to different regions, could reduce the loss, a study published on Thursday said. Globally, irrigation systems should be expanded by more than 25 percent to cope with changing rainfall patterns, the study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters said. Where they should be expanded is difficult to model because of competing scenarios...
World Bank urged to probe links with Uzbek cotton
2014-12-18 14:37:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The World Bank's internal watchdog is being urged to investigate whether its projects are contributing to the use of forced labour in in the cotton sector of Uzbekistan.
The World' First: UL Certification for Socket-outlet and Plug for 10A 400V Class DC Distribution System
2014-12-18 11:31:06| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
San Jose, CA, NTT FACILITIES, INC. (Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Kiyoshi Tsutsui) and Fujitsu Component Limited (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President: Koichi Ishizaka) obtained UL(1) certification for its first of a kind socket-outlet and plug for 10A 400V class DC distribution system. The DC distribution system...
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FIDO Pursues Vision of a Password-Free World
2014-12-17 19:55:33| TechNewsWorld
A group of some 150 companies last week moved closer to eliminating the bane of many an online user: the ubiquitous password. The FIDO Alliance, which counts among its members Microsoft, PayPal, Google, Bank of America, Visa and MasterCard, released version 1.0 of its open specifications for strong authentication on the Internet without the use of passwords.
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As world leaders try to reduce emissions, carbon dioxide levels keep rising
2014-12-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Diplomats just finished a marathon round of climate talks in Lima, Peru, which resulted in an agreement that for the first time ever will commit each country to taking action to reduce their emissions of global warming pollutants, such as carbon dioxide. The agreement leaves much still to be decided next year, with a looming deadline for a new climate treaty that will go into effect in 2020. What negotiators have been trying to do for much of the past two-plus decades is to address the accelerating...
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