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Keeping up climate: efforts reduce African crop losses face extra hurdle of climate change
2015-04-21 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to mount. To start with, they tend to lack storage and processing tools that industrialized countries take for granted -- things like refrigeration, ovens, and grain elevators. On top of that, they're working the land in places where climate change may already be wielding its effects, making disease, rainfall patterns, and crop yields less predictable. Africa, Latin America,...
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Bike-Riding Waste Haulers Gain Grant to Support Food Scrap Collection Efforts
2015-04-16 09:11:00| Waste Age
Theres a steadily growing business in the city of Cleveland: a sustainable, worker-owned waste hauler thats literally on the move. read more
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Portland's Superfund efforts show signs of life
2015-04-13 16:09:58| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Portland Harbor Superfund site is a feast of diversity. There's wildlife, thriving industrial businesses and the skeletal remains of manufacturers that departed long ago.
UN calls for unified efforts to ensure food safety
2015-04-09 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has called for unified efforts to ensure safe production, distribution and preparation of food.
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Urban Sprawl, Cars Hamper Cities Best Efforts on CO2
2015-04-07 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: There's no way to drive around it: Commuting to work behind the steering wheel emits carbon dioxide and contributes to climate change. Dense cities are pretty good at keeping those tailpipe emissions low when measured on a per-person basis because many commuters often use trains and buses to get to work. Less dense cities, on the other hand, see more people driving to work from distant suburbs, usually leading to more tailpipe emissions. A Boston University study published Monday in the Proceedings...
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