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Heat Stress Killing Corals on Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The most pristine section of the world largest coral reef is experiencing the worst mass bleaching event in history, scientists have determined during aerial and in-water surveys of the Great Barrier Reef. After surveying more than 500 coral reefs from Cairns, Australia to Papua New Guinea, scientists rank the overwhelming majority of reefs in the most severe bleaching category. Research divers survey coral bleaching on a reef off of Port Douglas, March 2016 (Photo by Cassandra Thompson / ARC...
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India and China will suffer severe water stress by 2050, says study
2016-04-01 07:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Parts of Asia are likely to suffer severe water stress by the middle of this century, according to a new study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, considered major developing nations notably India and China and modeled their water-use trajectories if no action is taken to restrain either growth or anthropogenic climate change. Under such circumstances, the researchers found that both countries had a roughly...
An Introduction To Stress Testing Oil Prices, Default Probabilities And Credit Spreads
2016-03-31 00:37:08| Paper - Topix.net
The last 18 months have been a dramatic period of oil price volatility, with nine of the 10 riskiest rated firms of the world coming from the energy sector. This note shows the best practice procedures used by Kamakura Corporation in stress testing a macro factor, like oil, to get movements in default probabilities and spreads.
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Fuel Consumption And Greenhouse Gas Emissions Of Trucks Can Be Further Reduced By Fostering Regulatory Harmonisation, Stress Global Manufacturers
2016-03-21 02:48:05| pollutiononline News Articles
The world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty commercial trucks and engines called for further progress in regulatory harmonisation and closer cooperation among European, North American, and Japanese regulators in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel consumption associated with on-road freight transport
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Modern corn hybrids handle nitrogen stress, crowded planting better
2016-03-08 22:31:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: Purdue University Modern hybrids maintain per-plant yield in environments with low nitrogen, can bounce back from mid-season stress and have an improved ability to take up nitrogen after silking, even if they suffered from nitrogen deficiency during flowering. read more
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