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What Happens When the World Dries Out
2013-11-03 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: A warmer, drier world will be bad news for those people who already live on the edge. Higher temperatures will do more than evaporate the soil moisture: they will alter the natural soil chemistry as well. Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville, Spain, and fellow scientists report in Nature that they looked at soil samples from 224 dryland ecosystem plots in every continent except Antarctica. Drylands matter: they account for more than 40 percent of the planet's...
World risks exceeding carbon budget, worsening climate
2013-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The world risks blowing through its carbon budget in 21 years, threatening to cause global warming of more than double the threshold deemed safe by the United Nations, the global accounting firm PwC said today in a study. The budget is the amount of greenhouse gases the world can emit by 2100 to cap the temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). CO2 emitted per unit of economic output fell at 0.7 percent per year from 2007 through 2012, less than an eighth of the required...
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Students experience real world application of STEM
2013-11-02 07:45:14| Semiconductors - Topix.net
SEMI High Tech U is a program that tries to bridge the gap between what students learn in the classroom and what they'd do in the real world.
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Climate change threatens world food supply, panel warns
2013-11-02 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An international scientific panel has found that climate change will pose sharp risks to the world's food supply in coming decades, potentially reducing output and sending prices higher in a period when global food demand is expected to soar. That finding is by far the starkest warning that the UN-appointed group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has issued regarding the food supply. Its 2007 report was more sanguine, essentially finding that climatic warming and the rising level...
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World Markets for Textile Machinery: Part 2-Fabric Manufacture, 2013 edition
2013-11-01 17:13:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
This report examines general trends and provides analyses of the international fabric machinery market. 2012 was a mixed year as shipments of weaving machinery and knitting machinery declined followin
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