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Bringing Back the Night: The Fight Against Light Pollution
2013-08-19 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Last month, France -- including the City of Light -- grew darker late at night as one of the worlds most comprehensive lighting ordinances went into effect. From 1 a.m. to 7 a.m., shop lights are being turned off, and lights inside office buildings must be extinguished within an hour of workers leaving the premises. The lighting on Frances building facades cannot be turned on before sunset. Over the next two years, regulations restricting lighting on billboards will go into effect. These rules...
Poll finds Californians back climate change fight, skeptical on fracking
2013-08-01 06:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: An overwhelming majority of Californians believe the state should act to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new poll, while residents narrowly oppose hydraulic fracturing and support construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Climate change represents a concrete threat for a majority of Californians, according to the new Public Policy Institute of California poll. More than three-fourths of respondents -- 77 percent -- called climate change a "very serious" or "somewhat serious" threat...
Hawaiians fight back against GMO experiments
2013-07-02 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The state of Hawaii has become a lot like the island of Dr. Moreau. Except that instead of Dr. Moreau - the mad scientist in H.G. Wells`s 1896 novel who vivisected animals into beast-people - Hawaii is ruled by the GMO industry. Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer, and BASF use the Pacific archipelago as open-air testing grounds for their experimental genetically modified crops, and they spray those crops with herbicides and other chemicals to test how they respond. But now...
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Can Windows Phone Fight Back Against The Apple Onslaught? Memento Mori Microsoft - Part 2
2013-04-28 13:57:57| Wireless - Topix.net
Following Microsoft's solid earnings report last week, a swagger appears to have returned to the offices at Redmond, but old problems remain and new ones continue to multiply.
Can Windows Phone Fight Back Against The Apple Onslaught? Memento Mori Microsoft - Part 2
2013-04-28 11:32:12| Telecom - Topix.net
Following Microsoft's solid earnings report last week, a swagger appears to have returned to the offices at Redmond, but old problems remain and new ones continue to multiply.