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Climate Change Could Be Fuelled By Cattle Drugs
2016-05-25 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quadrangle: Working with fellow researchers in Finland, Hammer compared the dung of livestock that were given tetracycline with those of cattle that were not given the antibiotic. Overall, the researchers found that antibiotics upped the methane footprint of dung by an average of 80 percent over poo from cattle that weren't fed drugs. Now, the team said, it plans to go and conduct further studies to better quantify the contribution of agricultural antibiotic use to climate change. Specifically, the global...
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Westfal-Larsen takes delivery of methanol fuelled ocean-going vessel Lindanger
2016-04-25 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Norway's Westfal-Larsen has taken delivery of Lindanger, which is claimed to be the world's first ocean-going vessel that runs either on methanol or conventional petroleum fuels.
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Scientists say climate change fuelled Zika outbreak
2016-02-07 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Climate change may have fuelled the outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Latin American and make it harder for developing countries to manage future epidemics, researchers said. Record-high temperatures last year in Brazil, Ecuador and other South America countries created ideal conditions for the mosquito that transmits Zika, which is suspected of causing birth defects, scientists said on conference call with reporters Friday (Feb 5). The researchers, who cautioned any link between...
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Cheese by-product fuelled power plant serves 1,500 French residents
2015-12-21 01:00:00| Power Technology
France-based Valbio has developed a new power station that generates electricity from skimmed whey, a by-product derived from Beaufort cheese.
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Tax-Cut Fuelled China Car Sales Growth Adds $0.26 To Our 2016 General Motors EPS Estimates
2015-11-06 17:31:37| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Ever since September 30th when the Chinese government announced it would cut car sales taxes from 10% to 5% for all vehicles with engines smaller or equal to 1.6 liters in size until the end of 2016, it was clear that General Motors' China unit would benefit from this change. Afterall, for GM China a total of 30 carlines or 128 trim-levels qualify for this tax cut.