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BEEF Contributor Steve Kay Honored By American Meat Institute

2013-01-30 15:47:00| Beef

American Meat Institute Cattle Buyers Weekly Editor Steve Kay today was honored with the American Meat Institutes (AMI) highest award, the Industry Advancement Award during the AMI International Production & Processing Exposition in Atlanta, GA. read more

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Key Linux contributor Alan Cox steps down

2013-01-24 20:17:29| InfoWorld: Top News

Alan Cox, one of the chief contributors to the Linux kernel, has taken a step down from his volunteer duties, citing the need to attend to family matters. Cox has contributed to Linux in various capacities since 1991, shortly after Linus Torvalds developed the open-source variant of the Unix operating system. Most recently, Cox worked on the kernel on behalf of Intel, where he was employed.

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Black Carbon More Powerful Contributor to Climate Change Than Previously Thought: New Study

2013-01-17 21:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Black carbon -- that nasty air pollution that causes major health problems -- also happens to be a very powerful contributor to climate change. In fact, a new multi-year international study has just found that it's the second most powerful contributor to climate change -- behind carbon dioxide emissions. Emissions from dirty diesel, residential cooking and heating and forest fires from deforestation are major contributors to black carbon pollution (see figure). Addressing black carbon emissions from...

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Soot is second biggest man-made contributor to global warming

2013-01-16 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Soot is the second largest man-made contributor to global warming, according to a comprehensive new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. The research effectively doubles the estimate of soot's direct warming influence on climate. Soot is produced from the burning of diesel fuel, coal, charcoal, and wood. "Accounting for all of the ways black carbon can affect climate, it is believed to have a warming effect of about 1.1 Watts per square meter, approximately two-thirds...

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