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In the Caribbean, a stinking seaweed menace spurs invention
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An unwelcome visitor sailed onto Caribbean beaches this year: huge rafts of seaweed. The seaweed, called sargassum, has swept into the region in part as a result of changing weather conditions, turning many once-postcard-perfect beaches a dull pond-scum brown as it decomposes and releases a rotten egg stench. "It's a dirty horrible brown lace that just washes ashore," said Noorani Azeez, CEO of the Saint Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association. "The foul stench of the seaweed is really an inhibitor...
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C. H. Robinson Is Making Margins Matter: Profit Margin Expansion Spurs Growth
2015-11-10 16:27:08| Logistics - Topix.net
C. H. Robinson is improving profit margins which will allow it to be more competitive and profitable within its industry. C. H. Robinson is a third party logistics and sourcing firm that is traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker CHRW.
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Bluetooth Developer Studio Spurs IoT Development
2015-10-24 22:52:54| Wireless - Topix.net
Bluetooth has delivered a new toolset called the Bluetooth Developer Studio to speed up development of Internet of Things apps and products. Bluetooth this week announced a no-cost software-based development kit that helps developers learn Bluetooth technology quickly and bring products to market faster.
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Promise of Turning Pollution Into Cash Spurs Industry in Germany
2015-10-07 10:27:52| Steel - Topix.net
HeidelbergCement AG is using blast-furnace slag in concrete, aiming to cut carbon dioxide emissions by a quarter this year compared with 1990. ThyssenKrupp AG plans to re- purpose gases emitted by its steel smelter into saleable products such as methanol.
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Spread of deserts costs trillions, spurs migrants
2015-09-15 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Land degradation, such as a spread of deserts in parts of Africa, costs the world economy trillions of dollars a year and may drive tens of millions of people from their homes, a U.N.-backed study said on Tuesday. Worldwide, about 52 percent of farmland is already damaged, according to the report by The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD), compiled by 30 research groups around the world. It estimated that land degradation worldwide cost between $6.3 trillion and $10.6 trillion a year in lost...
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