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Fish Kill Spurs Cleanup of River Polluted for A Century in Spain
2013-08-06 20:25:39| ENR.com: Headline News
The $212-million dredging and treatment operation is funded by the government and the European Union, although a chemical company may also contribute, depending on legal action.
Advertising merger spurs concern
2013-07-30 04:44:29| Food - Topix.net
Omnicom Group President and CEO John Wren, left, and Publicis Groupe Chairman and CEO Maurice Levy pose for photos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, July 29, 2013.
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Smithfield's China deal spurs heparin heart drug safety concerns
2013-07-26 04:23:44| Food - Topix.net
U.S. lawmakers are concerned a Chinese company's planned $4.7 billion acquisition of pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc could affect the safety and availability of heparin, a blood-thinner widely used in heart surgery and kidney dialysis that is derived from pig intestines.
Global warming spurs changes in AK wildfire regime
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Global warming is making some of Alaska`s interior forests more flammable, with wildfire activity higher than at any time in the past 10,0000 years, according to new research funded by the National Science Foundation. The study documented a dramatic increase in both the frequency and severity of fires in recent decades in a 2,000-square-kilometer zone in the Yukon Flats of interior Alaska -- already one of the most flammable high-latitude regions of the world. The fires are converting the conifer-rich...
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High carbon dioxide spurs wetlands to absorb more carbon
2013-07-16 03:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Under elevated carbon dioxide levels, wetland plants can absorb up to 32 percent more carbon than they do at current levels, according to a 19-year study published in Global Change Biology from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md. With atmospheric CO2 passing the 400 parts-per-million milestone this year, the findings offer hope that wetlands could help soften the blow of climate change. Plant physiologist Bert Drake created the Smithsonian's Global Change Ecological...
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