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Arctic drilling approval threatens Obama climate legacy
2015-08-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The Obama administration's final approval of Royal Dutch Shell's drilling for oil in Alaska's Chukchi Sea provoked an angry reaction on Monday from environmentalists who had come to consider President Obama a champion in the fight against climate change. The decision comes two weeks after the release of the United States' most aggressive attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions, known as the Clean Power Plan, and just days after Obama announced he will visit Alaska later this month to highlight...
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As sea rise threatens Indian farmlands, scientists study saltwater plants as crops for future
2015-08-16 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds. The plants are living on saltwater, coping with drought and possibly offering viable farming alternatives for a future in which rising seas have inundated countless coastal farmlands. Sea rise, one of the consequences of climate change, now threatens millions of poor subsistence farmers across Asia. As ocean water swamps low-lying plots, experts...
Study shows how climate change threatens health
2015-08-14 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Researchers at Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) and the University of Washington have published a new study focused on the public health implications of climate change. The article explores climate change impacts on human health in the U.S. Gulf Coast and has implications for this and other coastal regions that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The study appears in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public…
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Road woes: Growing congestion threatens to choke Charleston port traffic, commerce
2015-08-09 04:41:11| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Roger Schrum can measure the poor quality of South Carolina's roads by the amount of repairs Sonoco makes to its trucks each year. “It costs us $4.5 million to $5 million on an annual basis,” Schrum, vice president of investor relations for the packaging giant, said during a recent television broadcast.
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Road woes: Growing congestion threatens to choke Charleston port traffic, commerce
2015-08-09 03:22:21| Paper - Topix.net
Roger Schrum can measure the poor quality of South Carolina's roads by the amount of repairs Sonoco makes to its trucks each year. “It costs us $4.5 million to $5 million on an annual basis,” Schrum, vice president of investor relations for the packaging giant, said during a recent television broadcast.
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