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Climate change now 'irreversible' - Prof McPherson
2014-10-21 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3News NZ: The climate change message is just depressing, no matter what way you look at it. Best case scenario, we all have to change our lives dramatically, just to keep us vaguely on the right track. Worst case scenario - were all doomed. Unsurprisingly, that's a hard message for scientists to get us all to listen to, which might be why Professor emeritus Guy McPherson is a teacher of natural resources, ecology and evolutionary biology, but is also a grief counsellor on the side. Prof McPherson...
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New England Journal Of Medicine: Prof. Cortez, FDA Regulation Of Mobile Health Technologies
2014-07-30 08:41:57| rfglobalnet Home Page
Smart phones and mobile devices are on the cusp of revolutionizing health care, armed with mobile health (“mHealth”) apps capable of providing everything from cardiac measurements to sonograms.
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$1 million to Michigan prof for chemistry teaching
2014-07-05 00:18:53| Biotech - Topix.net
A University of Michigan professor of chemistry and engineering has won a five-year, $1 million grant as one of 15 scientist educators selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors.
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Abbott out of step on climate change, says Prof Jeffrey Sachs
2014-05-21 20:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia's reversal on climate change action will ultimately not stick because the rest of the world will make clear that it is unacceptable, globally renowned economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs says. Speaking to Fairfax Media, Professor Sachs said the extreme shocks and pain of climate change were now being felt across the planet and governments acting in an ''anti-scientific perspective or an extraordinarily short-term perspective'' will be surprised by the response from other countries. ''This...
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CU-Boulder prof helps lead effort map virtually every glacier on Earth
2014-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Camera: A newly published study led by a glaciologist at the University of Colorado and a Canadian colleague has finished mapping virtually every glacier on Earth, part of an effort to learn more about rising seas as man-made gases warm the planet. The study, billed as the Randolph Glacier Inventory after the town in New Hampshire which served as one of the meeting places for the researchers mapped and catalogued roughly 198,000 glaciers. The work included contributions from 74 scientists representing...